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This blog frequently covers organic food issues.  It could be said to do so a little obsessively.  Most of my readers will prefer eating organic, but is this an important ethical issue?  How is that Pagan? We experience the Sacred in the world, whether or not it exists transcendental to it. Every relation with anything…

Fascinating and disturbing post on Hullabaloo about San Francisco giving our “organic: soil amendments that are really toxic sludge, and encouraging its use in veggie gardens.  If you read it, be sure to look at the comments.  It’s a knowledgeable crowd.  Even if you are not living and gardening in the Bay Area, this is…

Avatar is a hit with Amazonian indigenous peoples, who were invited by the Pachamama Alliance to a showing translated into Spanish.  They loved it and felt a close connection between themselves and the threats they face and the Na’vi.  There is also a great video about the event.

Recent scientific research has led some biologists to argue that dolphins should be ranked as “non-human persons.”  I can only wish them success in their quest.  Our kind has a long history of retreat from the early modern and Abrahamic religious conceit that animals are so far ‘below’ us that they rank as animate objects.
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