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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.
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