Conclusion

This is part 12, the last installment, of my research on global food movements entitled GLOBALIZATION: It's what's for dinner

CONCLUSION

Globalization impacts the food choices of every person. The Standard American Diet of fast food may have won the first round, but Global Living Awareness Diets are emerging and providing earth citizens new options, especially Americans. One Planet Living, organic farming, and plant-based diets represent global trends built on environmental ethics of compassionate care for creation. Historically, Christians have been at the forefront of such movements. Today, the same trend is beginning in Europe (yet again), and will hopefully continue as God's people see, judge, and act according to their faith. Franciscan theologian Eric Doyle writes:

"The greatest challenge to organized religion in the western world now is whether it can guide individuals along the paths of their own inner depths, and show how the riches in these depths can be recognized, accepted, and put at the service of all creation; and, closely related to this, whether it can teach people to commune with God and nature. That religion has the means to do this cannot be doubted, I think; that it will see it as its chief task in the long run is probably predictable." [62]

Click here for the first entry of this series from January 5, 2009.

[62] Eric Doyle, The Song of Brotherhood and Sisterhood (St. Bonaventure, NY: The Franciscan Institute, 1992), 53. (Reprint of St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood, New York: Seabury Press, 1980.)