There are moments that I throw up my hands at the endless work of dismantling walls of division. They seem to be built faster than what all the many powers working for unity can counter. But then I recenter myself and discover that the current wall-building frenzy of hate and exclusion stimulates me to relish the truth that the Divine Spirit called “Holy” or “Whole” is at work.
For too long I have given Spirit far less attention than she merits. Did you notice I said “she?” I’m not reaching over backward to include the feminine in “God.” The word Spirit is feminine in both Greek and Hebrew. So, referring to Spirit as “it” or “he” represses who she truly is and what she does. Once I saw that “Spirit” is feminine, my eyes lit up.
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.