Eating for the FutureBook Club and Recommended Reading Lots of great books have been written about our food and agriculture system. Some authors talk about the relationship between different faith traditions and food, some talk about how our system is contributing to ill health and obesity, others about the relationship between environmental problems and food production and distribution. Whatever the subject you’re interested in, there’s someone who has written about it and can help to shed some more light on the topic. The BFFP provides several different ways to help you learn more through reading: Join Our Book Club! – The Baltimore Food and Faith Book Club is a small group of people who get together four times a year to talk about a book they have agreed to read before the meeting. (Your local library should have copies available, or be able to order them for you.) The BFFP recommends the book for each session (although the group is welcome to decide on its own to read a different one) three months before the next gathering to give folks enough of a chance to read it. Meetings take place at one of the group member’s homes and last for a couple of hours. Of course, we think that sharing and savoring food is a great idea for the gatherings, but that’s entirely up to the group as well. Don’t have time to join the Book Club, but still want to read what everyone else is? Check out our Book of the Season for fall–  Food & Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread, edited and compiled by Michael Schut, contains essays by Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, M.F.K. Fisher, Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba, Sr. Mirian MacGillis, and others prompting us to explore the meaning of our meals. Basic issues related to food are explored: its sacramental character, its connections to health, the demise of the family farm, the human and ecological impacts of industrial agribusiness, questions of genetically modified organisms, and world hunger. A diversity of voices and a helpful study guide point to promising directions both individuals and communities can take to bring about a healthier and more equitable world through the food we eat.
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