Food Waste

In the book From Nature to Creation we discussed "Creatureliness" in terms of food.  There is a hierarchy in our food chain, we need food in order to survive.  This means that another living thing must die so that we can live.  Even for vegetarians and vegans something that is alive must die for them to be able to eat.  The problem though is with modern technology and farming practices we are destroying the processes that give us food.  We degrade the fields that produce crops, we give hormones to the animals to make them larger, we modify plants to produce more, and we over work the people who provide the labor behind these processes.

Also, we have been able to create a surplus with modern technology.  While a surplus can be helpful in our case, in the developed world, we waste much of this surplus.  We produce significantly more than we need and instead of sharing or saving what we produce it is mostly thrown away.  In the section "Eating Our Way into Creatureliness" there is a quote that says, "A growing number of people now wonder if the Green Revolution has been properly named.  Is it 'green' or perhaps 'brown,' owing to the fact that industrial agriculture depends from beginning to end on the massive consumption of oil?" (pg. 123)  I would have to agree with this growing number of people and say that it was not a "green" revolution but instead maybe "black" because of our oil consumption and the fact that most of our processes include creating death in our environment, be it intentional or not.