Why He Does What He Does
Heathen blogger Dave Haxton in response to an e-mail writes a great piece about why he practices natural farming.
“I feel that I have a deep and abiding connection to the land. Now, to say that this is a religious thing would be an over-simplification, but if you’ll notice, many, if not most, of the folks involved in the organic, “slow foods”, “homesteading” or “all natural” movement are religious people. Not that we all share the same religion by a long shot: I know Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists and even other heathens and pagans who are caught up in this movement. No, “religious” isn’t the right word: “spiritual” comes close, but that doesn’t do it justice either. What we all share is that abiding connection to the land, and the feeling that we are but travelers here, and it is our responsibility to leave this world a better place than when we came into it. Pumping cows full of artificial drugs to drive down the price of meat is wrong. Filling the landscape with huge manure lagoons is wrong. Keeping 100,000 laying hens in a single building, where they never see sunlight or touch the earth is wrong. Patenting life forms is wrong. These things are wrong because they’re “out of order” – they’re wrong because they ignore the natural world, and treat it as an engineering project. If the world is, in fact, naught but an engineering project, then it’s God’s, and not ours, and we should defer the design decisions to Him or Her, or It or Them: whatever – I’m not just being politically correct here. It’s not religious in the denominational sense, it’s a “spiritual respect” kind of thing… define the Powers That Be any way you like: it’s irrelevant in this context.”
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