Cardinal Turkson gave an incredible talk this morning on “Laudato Si’ and the Vocation to Agriculture.” While he definitely did not hold back in frankly addressing the challenges and even injustices in contemporary food production, he also reaffirmed that farming is a noble vocation.
If you don’t have time to read his full speech, definitely check out these Top 5 Tweets from his talk at the Faith, Food & the Environment symposium in Milan:
@CardinalTurkson: Economies of scale in ag force small holders to sell land, abandon tradition, and end up in urban slums. #FFEMilan
— Catholic Rural Life (@CathRuralLife) June 27, 2015
Humanity is the factor that opens the earth up to new possibilities. @CardinalTurkson
— Bishop Paul Etienne (@BishopEtienne) June 27, 2015
Big ag goes bad when it doesn’t take the wellbeing of the human and natural community into account #FFEMilan
— Catholic Rural Life (@CathRuralLife) June 27, 2015
Agriculture is the practice of reciprocity. From the beginning, the Creator asks us to till the earth and to keep it. @CardinalTurkson
— Bishop Paul Etienne (@BishopEtienne) June 27, 2015
@CardinalTurkson: We need to talk not only about right to food BUT ALSO right to produce food. #FFEMilan #AgVocation
— Catholic Rural Life (@CathRuralLife) June 27, 2015