Spirituality and Ecological Hope

Fostering Ecological Hope

Today from Margaret Swedish:

I don’t have much time to blog today, but I wanted to pass along some thoughts about how we eat, our patterns of over-consumption of food on the high-end of overall resource usage — gobbling up the food chain, basically.  This includes things like beef and fish.

Fish.  We are quickly heading towards depletion and possible extinction of all sorts of wild fish.  We love of our fish.  We are eating more fish than ever.  Fish is good for us.

There is a lot of controversy surrounding fish — wild v. farm-raised, the practices of industrial fishing, literally casting the wide net.  More toxins are in our fish than ever.  If you don’t know the water source and what’s in it, you don’t really know what you’re eating.

So here is what one fish-guy wrote about it the other day, published in the NY Times.  I link to this as just one example of how to get us to think differently about how we eat, how to start eating lower on the food chain, more in balance with nature.  Since we are over-eating right now, and eating badly, this would also be very healthy for us.  I will try to send some other links regarding this in a later post.

Don’t just eat for your health, eat also in a way that ensures healthy food, produced with earth-loving practices, in balance, for future generations.

One of my resource links has some good stuff regarding fish and the oceans.  You might want to check out their web site.