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The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation

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The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

By: Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Joel Salatin
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 From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles.
What on earth is The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs? It's an inspiring call to action for people of faith . . . a heartfelt plea to heed the Bible's guidance . . . .

It's an important and thought-provoking explanation of how by simply appreciating the marvelous pigness of pigs, we are celebrating the Glory of God.

As a man of deep faith and student of the Bible, and as a respected and successful ecological family farmer, Joel Salatin knows that God created heaven and earth and meant for all living organisms to be true to their nature and their endowed holy purpose. He intended for us to respect and care for His gift of creation, not to ravage and mistreat it for our own pleasure or wealth.

The example that inspires the book's title explains what Salatin means: when huge corporate farms confine pigs in cramped and dark pens, inject them with antibiotics and feed them herbicide-saturated food simply to increase profits, they are not respecting them as a creation of God or allowing them to express even their most rudimentary uniqueness - that special role that is part of His design. Every living organism has a God-given uniqueness to its life that must be honored and respected, and too often that is not happening today.

Salatin shows us the long overlooked ethics and instructions in the Bible for how to eat, how to shop, how to think about how we farm and feed the world. Through scripture and Biblical stories, he shows us why it's more vital than ever to look to the good book rather than corporate America when feeding the country and your family.

Salatin makes a compelling case for Christian stewardship of the earth and how it relates to every action we take regarding our food. He also opens our eyes to a common misconception many Christians may have about environmentalism: it's not a bad thing, and definitely not just the province of secular liberals; it's really a very good thing, part of heeding God's Word.

With warmth and with humor, but with no less piercing criticism of the industrial food complex, Salatin brings readers on a fascinating journey of farming, food and faith. Readers will not say grace over their plates the same way ever again. Agricultural & Food Sciences Animal Husbandry Christian Living Christianity Politics & Government Science

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Have read several other Joel books, didn't realise that this was specifically about christianity and faith in relation to farming. Still enjoyed it because he's awesome, does cover topics I was expecting of the book (catering to animals inbuilt natures), and gave me interesting perspectives about the philosophy of farming and religion.

I'm not a practicing Christian but enjoyed it

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This book stitches together all the loves of my life: care for animals, living harmoniously with the land, air, and waters, spiritual integrity, personal responsibility, and care for the miraculous body God has made me. It has taken me over 40years to wade through the hypocrisies, lies, and cruelty of the industrial food, health, and church systems to allow the soft beating heart in the centre of my chest to meet and love Jesus and yearn only to obey him. This world is no joke but there is a way to live in it and become fit for God's purpose; to honour the humaness of your humanity.

Thank you Joel

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Completely changed my view of food and my outlook on the world.
Please please read it listen to this book if you can.

Wow

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As a Christian, in a very similar type of church to Joel, and therefore the target audience of this book, I found it largely unconvincing.
I think Joel tried to hard to justify things from the Bible that just weren't there. This is known as eisogesis; reading ones own meaning into the bible rather than trying to extract the intended meaning, called exogesis.

The parts of the book that I found the most convincing were the parts that overlapped with "Folks this Ain't normal".

So as a Christian, just go read that book.

Rather read "Folks this Ain't normal"

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