He talked about how food were meant to be, should be made and served, and produced. It sounds like a old styled farmer trying to defend his business, but he supported his opinions with irrefutable scientific evidences and most importantly, God's will in His creations. His Christian point of view was something that I did not find in the film, so I was very impressed once again.
Some of the main points he stressed in his presentation were that living things can heal, we need to treat living beings with noble ways, there are reasons why things are the way they are, and we need to embrace the way that God wants us to.
Nowadays, the food we eat, vegetables and and animals that provide us food, and the corporations and technologies that grow them are not what we think they are, the way they are supposed to be, and the way God has designed them to be. In this day, when the technologies and human cleverness that we embrace try to manipulate God's Kingdom, Salatin is saying that we need to take a look back and think about ethics, and God's Kingdom.
How did He create us? what was the purpose of His creation of human and every living things? how does God want us to become better stewards of His creations? These are the questions we face today and we really need to think about them hard so we can one day stand in front of God, and not be ashamed of our lives.
Questions:
1. Technologies advance and they improve the qualities of human lives. But, compare to the past, are we really living in improved life style?
2. Salatin has an opposing view on eating food that is made of ingredients that we can't even pronounce. Then, are we supposed to refuse eating manufactured foods?
I also really enjoyed Joel Salatin's talk. I thought it was a great example of how we can glorify God wherever we are. I think he offered a great example of how everything is inherently redeemable. He was so passionate about food and farming and he openly praised God for the beauty of everything from pigs to soil.
ReplyDeleteIt was also really interesting how he talked about how our perception of food has changed. I couldn't help but think of my grandmother's cookbook "The Joy of Cooking" vs. the cookbooks I see sold now; things like "low-carb meals under 500 calories". Food really has changed from an aesthetic, familial experience to a "pit stop between what's really important" like Joel Salatin said.
You came away from Salatin's talk with a lot of great questions, Luke! How would Salatin answer some of those questions? I think the way he talks about honoring the "pigness of the pig" goes a long way toward offering an alternative vision for agriculture.
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