MYTH*ING LINKS
An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies,
Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions
by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL CORNER:
a look at issues relevant to clean air, water, food,
and fairness to the creatures and plants
who have been here as long, or longer, than we have
and who share this environment with us

Author's Note
26 July 2007

I have been keeping my environmentally-focused pages in my Common Themes section for many years. But today, unexpectedly, while updating an unrelated page on my home page, I abruptly realized that I needed to transfer environmental issues to their own section.

Thus, I have created THE ENVIRONMENTAL CORNER, where these pages will be grouped together and easier to find. The URLs of earlier pages will not change, so if you have already bookmarked them, do not worry that you'll have to search for them all over again. Only their re-positioning to this new section will change.

A final note: back in early March 2007 I launched a new page on pathogens with annotated links by Guest-editor, Stanley Cooper. What I wrote at that time will serve as an introduction to why these pages are so important to me, why they are an integral part of Myth*ing Links, and why they now have their own section:

This page looks at detailed, stunning scientific evidence concerning the pathogens in our food. I have named it: How & Why Are Pathogens Getting Into Our Food Supply: Cherchez la merde!. The page is a sobering collection of annotated links from Stanley Cooper, a man trained as a scientist and engineer. If you're wondering why spinach, peanut butter, lettuce, meat, and so many more foods are being contaminated, you don't want to miss this new page.

Why would a mythologist like me care about pathogens in food (aside from the fact that I eat food like everyone else)? Isn't that the business of biologists, molecular chemists, and other such scientists? Yes, of course it is -- my work is more focused on deities and demons from around the world.

Yet when I look at the impact on our lives of manure-spawned bacteria from inhumanely-raised livestock, at the "demonic" corporate greed that fosters such practices, and at the passionate environmentalists trying to open our eyes to the dangers, the boundaries blur between the denizens of science and the denizens of myth.

So this topic turns out to be very much my own turf and I am proud and grateful to be able to present Cooper's work. I hope you'll visit this page and explore the serious implications.

Here is this
new section's index:

          How & Why Pathogens Are Getting Into Our Food: Cherchez la merde!: by Stanley Cooper 7 March 2007.

             Behind the Odors From Factory Farms: What the Nose Doesn't Know: by Stanley Cooper   19 April 2007.

Note: If you live near one of these huge farms filled with confined and stressed animals, you'll know what I mean. If you don't, your food supply, air, and water are still being seriously impacted. For openers,  wind-born particulates are carried to urban centers; other factors put your water supply at risk, as well as your food.

Industrial Agriculture: General Information on Factory Farms

Industrial Agriculture: USA / International Edition:
[Important: for a full listing of many Myth*ing Links reprinted articles, see above portal page, Factory Farms Index]

          Industrial Agriculture: Food: We Are What We Eat

Farmers' Markets in the USA: forthcoming

Gardening with Native USA Plants: forthcoming, but see this fine link: http://www.plantnative.org/index.htm

Organic Farming / Organic Eating: forthcoming, but see this excellent organization's website:
http://organicconsumers.org/

Syllabus: Peaceable Kingdom: Transforming Our Relationships with Animals:
by Matthew Halteman, CalvinCollege / Grand Rapids, Michigan