Resource Use

We have achieved dominion and need to keep the land. God created the plants as food for the animals first and then humans. Who is more entitled to land and resources, people or animals? This issue repeatedly comes to a head, especially as evidenced by the vast water shortages in the West. Many rivers do [...]

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Species Extinction and biodiversity

God is a loving Creator.  Humans are uniquely able to participate in creation, by molding, shaping and bettering our world.  Our tinkering, however, has led to mass extinctions.  In some cases, species are inadvertently killed; in others, they are shot en-masse for sport, such as the passenger pigeon. Environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston wrote that extinction [...]

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Animal Ethics in Food Production

A casualty of faceless industrial food production is animal ethics – we do, we eat, we don’t think of how or why. This post is about regaining our ethical footing in meat production. Industrial meat production treats animals as simply that, meat. They are nothing more than means to our ends of cheap food. Moral [...]

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Food (Un) Safety

Modern industrial food production results in food being “exposed to chemicals or microbial pathogens” or mishandling.[1]  The food chain is not ‘transparent’ and customers cannot make educated food choices due to lack of knowledge.  E-coli, salmonella, and botulism are now commonly known through processed food.  These scares do not just come from industrially-grown conventional food; [...]

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