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T HINKING ABOUT FOOD, RE L I G I O N , A N D S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y Continued from page 13 gratifying. Most students care deeply about sustainability, in part because they connect sustainability to their future quality of life. l Endnotes 1. I also discuss the role of religion in my article “Why We Need Religion to Solve the Global Food Crisis,” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 49, 4 (2014): 977-991. 2. Pollan, Michael. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Press. 3. Steinfeld H. et al. 2006 Livestock’s Long Shadow, Food & Agriculture Org. Rome. Available at:(http://www.fao. org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm) Accessed April 25, 2015. 4. McGinnis, Michael Vincent. 1999. Bioregionalism. London: Routledge. 5. Kingsolver, Barbara, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver. 2008. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York: HarperPerennial. 6. Foer, Jonathan Safran. 2009. Eating Animals. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 7. The encyclopedia entry ‘Vegetarianism’ discusses the role of vegetarianism within different world religions. Sanford, A. Whitney. “Vegetarianism,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of the Spirit of Sustainability. (Berkshire Publishing Group, 2009): 409-412. 8. Mark Winne. 2009. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Boston: Beacon Press. 9. Julianne Newton and Eric Freyfogle. “Sustainability: A Dissent.” Conservation Biology, 19, 1 (February 2005): 23–32. Whitney Sanford is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She researches and teaches in Religion and Nature, and Religions of Asia. Whitney has authored a couple of books, including Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture, and her current book project is entitled Being the Change: What Gandhi Can Teach Us about Sustainability, Self-Sufficiency, and NonViolence. Join us! CSEE’s Developing Student Leaders Symposium April 15-16, 2016 • Claremont, CA More info at: csee.org/?Leadership16 Page 14 Spring 2016 CSEE Connections