FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: [Hidisc] Chris Hedges on agribusiness effects

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

I'm forwarding this because it is important AND because food/ 
environment is the 2nd year project of the UUA's Commission on Social  
Witness. You all know my concerns to focus our efforts better and to  
balance between projects (such as this) where we also have lots of  
allies within liberal Christian groups and other issues where humanist  
pioneering must pretty much <go it alone>.

Bob

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: September 7, 2009 5:16:02 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
> Subject: [Hidisc] Chris Hedges on agribusiness effects
>
> Once again this journalist scores -- reminding us of how fragile the  
> modern world has become, especially for those at
>
>  low SES.
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> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090906_food_is_power_and_the_powerful_are_poisoning_us/
>
> Many Wendell Berry citations, including this one
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> > it is impossible to mechanize production without mechanizing  
> > consumption, impossible to make machines of soil, plants, and  
> > animals without making machines also of people
>
> Read, discuss, distribute! And then find Hedges' new book  Empire of  
> Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
>
> Bob
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