Comments on: Are “Green” Fuels Green? http://jcarrot.org/are-green-fuels-green/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:20:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Debs http://jcarrot.org/are-green-fuels-green/#comment-5275 Debs Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:21:40 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/are-green-fuels-green/#comment-5275 This is an interesting post. I didn't know the term mitzva ha’ba b’aveirah, but I've wondered if the same concept could be applied to other areas, especially food and environmental sustainability. For instance, is kosher meat raised in unsustainable ways really kosher? I'm not exactly religious, I admit, but I do avoid pork and shellfish, partly as a way of holding onto Jewish identity. However, what's always appealed to me about the (loosely or strictly followed) concept of kashruth is that it is, in part, about bringing meaning and ethics to the act of eating. For that same reason, I buy grass-fed or pastured meats, dairy and eggs from my local farmers' market. The biofuel question raises other questions about how we live our lives. Is a mitzvah still a mitzvah if it causes harm? The answers may be changing as we get deeper into questions of sustainability. <a href="http://food.gofrolic.org" rel="nofollow">Food Is Love</a> This is an interesting post. I didn’t know the term mitzva ha’ba b’aveirah, but I’ve wondered if the same concept could be applied to other areas, especially food and environmental sustainability. For instance, is kosher meat raised in unsustainable ways really kosher?

I’m not exactly religious, I admit, but I do avoid pork and shellfish, partly as a way of holding onto Jewish identity. However, what’s always appealed to me about the (loosely or strictly followed) concept of kashruth is that it is, in part, about bringing meaning and ethics to the act of eating. For that same reason, I buy grass-fed or pastured meats, dairy and eggs from my local farmers’ market.

The biofuel question raises other questions about how we live our lives. Is a mitzvah still a mitzvah if it causes harm? The answers may be changing as we get deeper into questions of sustainability.

Food Is Love

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/are-green-fuels-green/#comment-5039 Leah Koenig Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:22:24 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/are-green-fuels-green/#comment-5039 I think you bring up some really important questions with this post. My gut response is one of denial - "how could bio-fuels possibly be harmful? / I've put so much faith and hope into them as a solution to petro chemicals!" But in the end, technological fixes to environmental issues often come with other, unintended, environmental baggage. The question now is - where do we go from here? I think you bring up some really important questions with this post. My gut response is one of denial - “how could bio-fuels possibly be harmful? / I’ve put so much faith and hope into them as a solution to petro chemicals!” But in the end, technological fixes to environmental issues often come with other, unintended, environmental baggage. The question now is - where do we go from here?

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