Borrowing a page from Jewschool’s “Motzash Mishegaas,” I’m starting a new weekly post “rounding-up” relevant news from the past week called “Ready for a Roundup?” because the world is NOT ready for any more Roundup Ready crops.

This week’s version focuses on the confluence of religion, sustainable agriculture projects and farm policy.

• Last Wednesday, an “interfaith” group released a letter to Speaker Pelosi demanding Farm Bill reform. Noticeably absent: all non-Christian/Catholic faiths, with the exception of Sojourners which is truly interfaith.

With Jspot’s recent post on Jews and the environmental movement and recent efforts by large Jewish institutions and demoninations to begin working on the environmental issue, can we do more than hope that the good work of Hazon, Mazon and others is finally recognized within the larger Jewish community?

• While doing some research at work, I recently came across this Eco-Halal Project organized by a group called Faith in Place in Chicago. While the concept of Eco-Halal now seems completely obvious, it had never occurred to me as a parallel movement to eco-Kashrut, proabably partially because the number of certified Halal products  is far fewer than those that are Kosher.