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"The Earth Nourishing Itself": Bodies And Theology In American Food Production Systems, Katherine M. Dutcher
"The Earth Nourishing Itself": Bodies And Theology In American Food Production Systems, Katherine M. Dutcher
Pomona Senior Theses
The industrial food production system is a head-on collision of ecology, morality, and human health, and their respective bodies of earth, animal and human. This thesis is an attempt to grapple with that damage from a theological perspective. What would it mean for a theology to answer to the degradation of American soil that sustains nothing but oil-drenched monoculture? to the horrifying conditions under which we as a nation raise, feed, and slaughter the animals for our consumption? to the dizzying array of food-related diseases that now affect our country in staggering frequency, particularly among lower socioeconomic classes? And what …