New List Annoucement: Building Vegetarian Culture

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A new work list has been built to help vegetarian social scientists, vegetarian

organizers, and concerned vegetarians around the world focus on the work of

building the vegetarian future: Building-Vegetarian-Culture (AT) Groups (DOT) com

 

The welcoming message of Building-Vegetarian-Culture (AT) Groups (DOT) com reads:

 

The task of building vegetarian culture has been undertaken throughout the

millennia by religious and spiritual communities, vegetarians with a worldview,

and the vegetarian diet is intertwined in their understanding with all their

other beliefs.

 

Vegetarians today, both religious and secular, intertwine their beliefs, both

dietary and nondietary.

 

Issues in culture building arise constantly whenever there is talk about

" increasing the number of vegetarians " .

 

But modern social science understandings of culturebuilding OUGHT to give us

profound insights into the importance of economics, material infrastructure,

celebration, and intergenerational communication.

 

The Building-Vegetarian-Culture list is about deliberately and intelligently

building vegetarian culture, assessing the current state of our society, and

addressing gaps, deficiencies, strengths, resources, and opportunities, and

consciously and effectively constructing the resources and strengths we do not

yet have and enjoy.

 

Let's put out heads in gear together.

 

What it is NOT:

(a) Now this project is not about RESOURCES as such. It's about DOING social

science intentionally. Perhaps it's a little like raising a child by the book

(Spock, Dobson, etc.), but we want to discuss issues in this way. But the

resources which will inevitably result from the clarification and deeper

understanding from our engaging in such systematic discourse should eventually

be made available on the web for social scientists, as well as organizers with

some professional expertise.

(b) It's also not about our PROMOTING our sites or programs to one another.

 

What it IS (again):

This project is about put our heads together and thinking critically,

deliberately, intentionally, effectively, and systematically, for the greater

development of the resources and quality we don't currently have as a community

and as a collage of subcultures, nor as vegetarian persons together.

 

Concrete examples:

We need retirement communities for vegetarians, and we need curriculum

development for vegetarian families and young persons. We need to study our

present resources and to document where there are gaps, then to find ways to

build resources and community participation where it currently cannot be found.

 

Maynard S. Clark

Vegetarian Resource Center

Listowner

Building-Vegetarian-Culture (AT) Groups (DOT) com

 

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