The following is from an article about an upcoming documentary on parenting with my friend, Kathy Simon. The article is in Psychology Today and is titled Is It Possible to Parent Without Threats & Coercion? When I was filming on Joel Salatins farm, a little spark was ignited inside of me that kept growing and growing... Joel had been showing us how his farm works, and how everything he does follows a very simple but fundamentally radical approach. He said if you respect the chicken-ness of the chicken, the cow-ness of the cow, then all falls into place. And what fell into place was earth-shattering. It was not only that the animals were happier and healthier. Or that the meat they produce was healthier and tastier. Good outcomes for sure, maybe even good enough, and certainly outcomes I would expect. But that was just the beginning. What Joel explained is that respecting the essence of each life-form leads to building more soil, which meant increasing resilience to droughts, capturing more CO2 (therefore fighting Global Warming), and, of course, increasing productivity (did you say more food? more money?) How could such a simple act, such a limited focus, lead to such a far-reaching outcome? I remember thinking. And then Joel said, Can you imagine if we applied this principle to each other? He turned to me and said Are you respecting the Ana-ness of Ana?
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:39:02 +0000
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