October Agitator
Here’s the October issue of the Catholic Agitator.
In this issue:
- Eating The Forbidden Fruit by Jeff Dietrich
- Crimes Of Dissent: a book review by Mike Wisniewski
- Peter Maurin’s Green Revolution an interview with Brian Terrell
- Eat Food, But Not Too Much, Mostly Plants by Faustino Cruz
- Kenya’s Food Crisis by David Omondi
thank you i’ve been looking forward to reading the next issue!
Comment by Tina — 10/10/2009 @ 9:56 pm
Hi Jeff,
Loved the October issue! I’m starting an urban agriculture initiative for the poor. We’re thinking alike these days.
Comment by nancy mintie — 10/23/2009 @ 6:57 pm
Jeff: It’s been a while since I last communicated with you. I have had a fair number of medical problems over the past few years. But I have kept up with The Agitator and the current issue on food is particularly impressive. But I’m not sure what we can do. My wife and I don’t eat meat and we try to buy organic produce as much as possible but we are not sure what else two people in their early 70’s can do.
We are both extremely disappointed with Obama and no longer expect him to do anything. The agricultural subsidy bill passed both houses and was signed into law w/o a word from Obama, thereby providing big agriculture even more money at our expense. This is not by a long shot all that Obama has done wrong. As you know he completely bungled health care reform so that more and more people be w/o coverage. He doesn’t understand that Afghanistan isn’t really a nation; it’s simply the region that Persia, Russia and the British couldn’t occupy. Yet one more quagmire.
The fact that you are continuing to do what you started to do is one ray of hope in this world. I will make a donation shortly.
There are two points I would like to make about “Forbidden Fruit.” First of all the Bible clearly stated that the Israelites had to free their slaves every 7 years and treat their slaves like themselves. Despite this language, Southern Jews like Southern Christians rabidly supported slavery and the Condfederacy. People have always treated the Bible like a cafeteria. They take what they want and ignore the rest. Just as southern Christian and Jews used the Bible to support slavery, today people use the Bible to support racism, homophobia and male chauvinism.
All of this is just a way of saying you are a voice of reason in a world in which religion is carried out irrationally.
Stanton J. Price
Comment by Stanton J. Price — 10/26/2009 @ 7:58 pm
Thank you so much for your words of education and inspiration! I have been struggling with my own consumerism and this issue really put it out there for me. I hope you don’t mind if I use your words when I speak to my friends about this devastating issue.
Comment by Michelle Gomez — 10/26/2009 @ 9:35 pm