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A Revised Land Ethic: Sustainable And Spiritual Agriculture, Brooke Maitlan Parrett
A Revised Land Ethic: Sustainable And Spiritual Agriculture, Brooke Maitlan Parrett
Student Theses 2015-Present
This paper proposes a return to the land and reconnection of spiritual practices through ethical teachings. Such a land ethic would involve answering the woes of industrial agriculture and providing a framework for farmers, consumers, and policymakers based on sustainable and spiritual considerations of the land. I analyze the loss of spiritual literacy and traditional ecological knowledge in the United States and discuss the spiritual history of agriculture in order to analyze contemporary religious perspectives on farming and agricultural ethics and thereby develop my own recommendations. The land ethic I propose combines sustainability and spirituality to develop intrinsic respect for …