Do you absolutely have to buy the cheapest food for your budget? Okay, if your budget allows nothing else. Do you absolutely have to buy where food is most convenient? Okay, if you must. Just be aware that convenience betrays Earth again and again.
So, if you can, by all means, buy healthy food. Why? Because you buy so much more than food.
When the words Big Ag are used it denotes only six companies — Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, DuPont, and Dow Chemical — and their destructive MultiEarth methods of food production. These six control 63% of the world’s commercial seeds and 75% of global agrochemicals.
We have great power to grow the existing alternative to Big Ag. (1) We need to use Earth-based thinking. (2) And, we must band together to let decision-makers know that we do not want them to subsidize and prop up Big Ag because it is not the best system for growing and distributing food. It is filled with injustices and harms our planet terribly.
The special need was a leaky roof—not only dripping but multiple little streams. These leaks in the large tarp roof over the Dan Swanson Centro Cultural interfered with all the activities (and there are many) happening in the cultural center. The estimate to replace the roof? $1500. Impossible in the financial reality of the Jubilee Circle in San Mateo.
Choosing a bank is one of the core choices we make for a new economy. Banking and finance take us to the heart of economic change, and to the heart of spiritual practice. One of Jesus’ most widely recognized sayings is that in economics, we must often choose between competing deities, God and Mammon. When JEM receives your donations we want you to know that your donation will get to work immediately financing aspects of a OneEarth Jubilee economy—even before we redistribute it for ministries in the Jubilee Circles.