Harvest

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Harvest Food, Farming and the Churches - Rated
Professor Gorringe is to be congratulated on this excellent and timely book, which he says "is intended as a study resource for congregations." A congregation or house-group that uses this book will have their understanding of the theological, social and economic issues surrounding world agriculture significantly deepened.

The book outlines how different cultures have understood attitudes to creation's resources, ranging from a "common treasury" to resources to be privatised and exploited for individual (or corporations') profit. It looks at "another gospel", the false gospel of the free market. The book then considers how those understandings affect food production, water resources, environmental attitudes, fisheries and genetic modification of crops.

What I would have liked to see was some clear simple steps that churches and individuals could take to radically change the injustices he identifies. But they are not in the book, probably because they do not exist!