Food is essential. But instead of meeting the human need for nourishment, consumerism encourages excess.
One half of the world is obese, the other malnourished.
Food has become a commodity with the price paid by our planet. Intensive agriculture abuses animals, destroys biodiversity and accelerates climate change.
Meanwhile, faith communities place food at the heart of their practice.
How can faiths feed the world -without exploiting the Earth?
How can we restore the spiritual concept of “enough”?
Faith and Food speakers
- City Canon Tim Higgins, priest-in-charge of Saint Stephen’s
Introduction to the theme of reconciliation
- Martin Palmer, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation
Faith in Food: the international movement to grow, buy and celebrate food that does not cost the Earth
- Philip Conford, organic historian, author of just-published book with signed copies in honour of the launch of The Development of the Organic Network: Linking People and Themes, 1945-95
- Joy Carey – author of NHS Bristol-funded report released March 2011, Who Feeds Bristol? Towards a resilient food plan.
Strength in unity – Bringing Bristol’s food groups together.
The evening starts in Saint Stephen’s Cafe with a welcoming bowl of soup then moves to the church for short meditation.
Speakers will give short talks to stimulate response and discussion from the audience.
Each attendant receives a card, denoting membership to its break-out group.
The groups will gather after each pair of speakers to create a question for the panel.
Timetable:
6.00 pm: Homemade soup in Saint Stephen’s Cafe.
6.30 – 8.30 pm: Speakers and debate
8.30 – 9.00 pm: Refreshments and networking.
Suggested donation: £5.00
This event is inspired by Saint Stephen’s new altarpiece, the Bristol Reconciliation Reredos, created to reconcile the church to its historic connections with the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Image above of Somerset Organic Link’s stall at the 2010 Organic Food Festival in Bristol.
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