THE WISDOM OF SOPHIA:FOOD JUSTICE, SACRED FEMININE, SACRED AGRICULTURE

摘要

We are in a downward spiral that we are called on to transform to a sacred spiral. Our contemporary agricultural system is a major driver of global warming and climate change. Industrial farming systems are the primary forces behind biodiversity loss,declining animal and public health, small holder land dispossession, pollution and environmental degradation of ecosystems,and entrenched food injustice. The specific dysfunctions of ecologically unbalanced, socially unjust agricultural and food systems manifest in how we currently treat land, water, soil, air, plants, animals, and each other. The belief systems that underlie the way global society is shaped are regrettably characterized by principles and practices of winner-take-all competition, social Darwinism, unbridled neoliberal capitalism, extreme wealth divergence, oppression, colonialism, hoarding, and scarcity. The negative and damaging characteristics of the way society is organized are felt acutely in the environmental sectors, especially constraining the ability of humans and the environment to maintain sustainable, regenerative agriculture and healthy, just food systems. Current social norms correspond to a period of destruction on personal, social, and biospheric levels.