Mainstream Protestant 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) cont.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, recognizing this is only one type of response to a food crisis consisting of many complex factors, local Christian Churches and individual members be encouraged to commit themselves to the study of and involvement in some of the long term responses to world hunger, such as:

1. support sound national population programs;
2. urge legislators, executive officials of United States and Canada, to make the use of food for humanitarian purposes the first priority, rather than for political strategy;
3. encourage youth and institutions which educate them, to prepare themselves in areas of professional skills related to the energy food population crisis, and
4. to observe these options until the General Assembly convenes in 1977,

AND BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) send a copy of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Canada and other appropriate executives and legislative officials of the two nations.

Read the complete statement in the Environmental Anthology of Denominational Policy.

Concerning Christian Stewardship of Food and Farm Land
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 1975

We believe that God is Creator of all the earth and its inhabitants. We seek to serve him as faithful stewards and desire to use the resources entrusted to us constructively. Therefore, we endeavor to be creative in the image of God who created us.

In these efforts we recognize that each of us is called to a unique Christian ministry. We believe that Christian farmers are called to care for the land and feed a just portion of the population of the world by careful management of the resources entrusted to them.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the General Assembly meeting in San Antonio, Texas, August 15 - 20, 1975:

• urge that farmers receive a just return for the goods and services they offer;
• encourage efforts among farmers to obtain a fair wage per hour equivalent to accepted just wages for other workers;
• encourage the means of meeting the cost/price stress with which farmers are confronted other than the destruction of animals and commodities that otherwise might produce food;
• defend the rights of the family farmer to choose freely his future on the land;