https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/02/jewish-views-on-food-security/ Home of the Jewish Environmental Movement Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/02/jewish-views-on-food-security/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:53:49 +0000 http://jewcology.org/2011/02/jewish-views-on-food-security/#comment-443 Thanks for the comment Joe! Its a fine line between sounding the clarion horn and having people label you as crazy. Often the “crazy” label is put on people by others who don’t want to acknowledge the truthfulness of what the messenger is saying, or are fearful of the implications of the message, and therefore marginalize or ignore it. I agree that jewcology is a great place for us to start getting the word out, and hopefully we can move on from an ‘educational’ focus to more of an ‘activist’ one in some sort of collective fashion, whether through the auspices of this site or elsewhere.

]]> https://beta.jewcology.com/2011/02/jewish-views-on-food-security/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:57:41 +0000 http://jewcology.org/2011/02/jewish-views-on-food-security/#comment-442 Important post. Thank you Rafael. It’s part of my motivation in starting my virtual commune, this concern about the price and availability of food. It’s true we have to sound the clarion horn of possible food shortages, and the relationship between these shortages and our behavior. The people from the Westboro Church (the ones who go around protesting against homosexuality at the funerals of U.S. soldiers) consider the woes of this country as being connected with violations of G-d’s laws to Mankind. I mention Westboro because I was at a protest once and met some of them, and these are not crazy people: they have a message, and they have a disturbing way of promoting it, but they are good at what they do. The lesson I learn is that we CAN get our message out if we work together. The whole Westboro group, including the founder’s grandchildren, is probably less than 100 people. We’re not going to alienate people like Westboro does, but we can figure out some innovative ways of our own to publicize our approach. Thanks to Jewcology.com for giving us this forum to meet online and discuss the kind of issues you are raising. Hopefully I’m planting the seed of an idea: a division of Jewcology.com that gets involved with rallies and demonstrations.

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