Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: thinking ethically about food -- Philosophical environmental ethics and food -- Religious environmental ethics and food -- Agricultural and food writing and environmental ethics -- Defining "religion," "spirituality," "ethics," and "morality"--Considering a comparative religious environmental ethical approach to food -- Industrial versus restorative agriculture -- The outline of the chapters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Down on the farm: the historical roots of the ecological crisis - agriculture? -- Farming as an ecological disease -- Anthropocentric Christianity and mechanized agriculture -- Bad farming, good farming -- Eating in exile -- From industrial to restorative agriculture -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Soil: sacred and profaned -- Defining dirt -- Desecrated soil -- Spiritual dimensions of sustainable agriculture -- Intimations of soil as sacred religion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Plants: the power and miracle of seeds -- Strands of the debate over GMOs -- Religious perspectives on GMOs -- Narratives of sacred seeds -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Animals: humane, sustainable, spiritual meat? -- What's the problem with beef for dinner? -- Humane, sustainable, spiritual meat? -- Animal ministers: spiritual ecological models of meat eating -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Water: precious, polluted, purified -- When we run out, we run out -- A river runs through it -- Burdens and benefits of agriculture's water problem -- Privatizing (sacred) water -- Trading (sacred) water -- Restoring sacred water -- Restoring Plaster Creek -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Climate: religion and food for a hot planet -- How agriculture impacts climate