What in God's Name Are You Eating

How Can Christians Live and Eat Responsibly in Today's Global Village
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9381-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 235 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

An exploration of the Christian response to the issues of food and diet in today's world, from health and environment to animal rights and economic justice.

How you eat affects the planet - and everyone else on it. What you eat might literally cost the earth. It also has implications for your health, for the grower or producer, and for the way you think about the world. What in God's Name Are You Eating? faces what many of us choose to ignore in the Western world: we, as adults, have allowed a childlike innocence to mask the real cost of the environment in which we are cocooned, while thousands elsewhere find themselves drought-stricken and starving. 'What in God's name are they not eating?' 'Enough' is the simple answer and we are part of the reason why.

The price of 'life', as we know it, is high. To those of us who have 'life', there is a moral imperative to enable others to share it rather than suppress them. With its advocacy of a globally responsibly discipleship, What in God's Name Are You Eating? enables us to see how the world's peoples can have life and a long future. While the reflection is rooted in radical Mennonite Christianity, the challenge is to those of faith - and those of none.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Francis, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Four Snapshots and a Question
2. Cooking Up a Storm

PART TWO: THE NATURE OF OUR CHALLENGE
3. Global Concerns
4. Discipleship's Demand

PART THREE: THE BIG ISSUES
5. Water, Water, Everywhere
6. Food Miles, Free-Range, and Animal Welfare
7. The Big Meat Debate
8. Cereal Killers and Genetic Modification
9. Free Trade, Fair Trade, Fair Prices, Fare Labels
10. Self-Sufficiency, Simplicity, and Grow Your Own
11. The End of the Line.

PART FOUR: CHANGING THE WORLD
12. Start Here
13. Developing a Global Strategy
14. Conclusions

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