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Mainline Protestant Denominations' Perspectives on Food and Agriculture
Concerning a Response
to the World Food Crisis on the Part of Congregations
and Members of the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ)
…Whereas, the Christian Church (Disciples
of Christ) has over the years expressed its deep
concern for the hungry of the world, and all individual
Christians have been met with the challenge of
Jesus to feed the hungry (Matt 25:35), a Biblical
text of our faith…
Whereas there are two levels of discipline and
sacrifice: first at the personal level, there
is need to eliminate the large amount of waste
in food production, delivery, packaging, marketing,
and consumption; secondly, if these personal changes
are to affect the world situation, they must be
related to political action to develop a national
and international food policy committed to the
development of a world food security system…
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the General Assembly
of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
meeting in San Antonio, Texas, August 15 - 20, 1975,
call for discipline in the use of resources, focus
attention upon the problems and solutions, and
recognize the following options as symbolic acts
and personal responses to the problems:
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- 1. to give concerted attention to the conserving
of all energy sources (e.g., fuel, food, water);
- to encourage the change of personal diets
so that more grain is available for food (e.g.
such as grain used for alcohol production);
- to unite with others for one sacrificial
meal each week;
- to seek ways of optimum utilization of food
and eliminating waste;
- to contribute a meaningful share of our resources
to human relief and development through the
Week of Compassion;
- to actively work toward reorientation of
national priorities for the implementation of
a national food policy that encourages the development
of a world food security system;
- to support the increase of food production
in the food exporting countries recognizing
the necessity to provide for adequate incentive
to those involved in food production, but also
stimulate the sharing of technological knowledge
and resources for increase of food availability
in the food importing countries.
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