tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526062220249378810.post7506707624574080613..comments2023-04-17T05:24:33.686-06:00Comments on Notes from Postmodernity: They Don’t Believe We’re Made in God’s Image, but Their Nutrition Advice is Spot On!Sideshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09887114468598111444noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526062220249378810.post-74281775238070502202010-09-27T11:31:03.105-06:002010-09-27T11:31:03.105-06:00@David
Thanks for the commetn and the links. Both...@David<br /><br />Thanks for the commetn and the links. Both of my parents' families have extensive agricultural roots, so I have a pretty good feel for what modern agriculture is "all about," and I will still maintain that conventional production methods have less of an environmental impact than organic methods (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/organic-farming-no-better-for-the-environment-436949.html, http://www.cgfi.org/2010/07/confined-livestock-better-for-the-planet-by-dennis-t-avery/). The Joel Salatin interview was interesting and I enjoy hearing other perspectives, but "Food, Inc." was nothing but pure propaganda.<br /><br />On a different note, I loved your Blogger profile description. I honestly can't agree with you more on that. Have you read Taubes' stuff? How is your health these days?Sideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887114468598111444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526062220249378810.post-54338329212855956642010-09-27T11:20:19.633-06:002010-09-27T11:20:19.633-06:00@Mitch
Haha, thanks. I actually really appreciate...@Mitch<br /><br />Haha, thanks. I actually really appreciate the lengths that Resurgence has gone in laying out a theology of the body. Thanks to Augustine and certain strands of Christoplatonism, Christians today still can have a poor understanding of the goodness of the physical world, and how God intends to redeem/resurrect atoms and molecules as well as our souls. So I like what Resurgence has done; I'm just looking for consistency, a comprehensively Christian approach that includes nutrition.Sideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887114468598111444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526062220249378810.post-42535573252567911862010-09-24T22:51:31.840-06:002010-09-24T22:51:31.840-06:00Organic agriculture can be spectacularly productiv...Organic agriculture can be spectacularly productive if done properly. Have you ever heard of Joe Thicke [1] or Joel Salatin? [2]<br /><br />I suggest you read "Food for Nought" by Ross Hume Hall, PhD to get a feel for what modern agriculture is all about. It's not about producing "enough" food. It's about maximizing productivity and minimizing cost. But cheap food has an environmental cost that never gets factored into the price paid at the checkout stand.<br /><br />1. The biggest challenge facing agriculture today is that it depends on cheap fossil fuels in a world of rising oil prices. We're making ethanol, but for cars driving on highways. In other words, agriculture produces cheap raw material (corn) to make biofuel (ethanol) for off-farm use, while paying high retail prices for fossil fuels to power agriculture. With ethanol, farmers are selling cheap and buying high. http://www.grist.org/article/food-2010-09-19-the-new-agtivist-francis-thicke-wants-to-lead-iowa<br />2. I am a Christian, and I think that the Judeo-Christian ethic calls us to realize that we are stewards of creation – that we are not to just rape it, pillage it, whatever, we are to steward it – and lays down certain principles of growth. http://indianapublicmedia.org/eartheats/joel-salatin-complete-interview/David Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16372232359108968083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4526062220249378810.post-5513588794150853622010-09-24T13:01:51.820-06:002010-09-24T13:01:51.820-06:00Word. Speaking truth to power ;)Word. Speaking truth to power ;)Mitch Majeskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09122613856063343033noreply@blogger.com