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Today's sermon will be delivered by one of our most distinguished members.
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Founder of the Council on Economic Trends, author of _Entropy: Into the
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Greenhouse World_, as well as _The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor
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Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era_, and most recently _Beyond Beef: The
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Rise and fall of the Cattle Culture_, he is a tireless advocate of the Green
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Revolution who needs no introduction. It is with great pleasure that I give
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you Jeremy Rifkin. May the Great Spirit grant each and every one of us the
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heart to realize his unique vision, in a world no longer dominated by the
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ruthless paradigm of efficiency.
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The elimination of beef will be accompanied by an ecological renaissance, a
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grand restoration of nature on every continent. America's western range will
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come to life again. Ancient rivers will flow, their waters bathing and healing
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thousands of damaged riparian zones across the great plains. Native
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wildflowers and perennial bunchgrasses will sprout and bloom, spreading a
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verdant carpet across the western landscapes. Cottonwood trees will shade the
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prairie once again, providing refuge for thousands of native birds. Streams
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and springs will come to life, bringing back freshwater trout and other native
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fish. The large mammals of the plains--elk, moose, pronghorn, antelope,
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bighorn sheep--will repopulate the western range of restored grassland.
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Predator species will thrive. Coyotes, wolves, bobcats mountain lions, and
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lynx will steal their way back onto the great western range, performing their
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traditional role of culling big animal herds to ensure that native species do
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not exceed the carrying capacity of the plains ecosystems. Buffalo will once
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again roam the west, sharing the grassland with wild horses and burros.
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In Central and South America, the dissolution of the cattle complex will
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idle tractors and bulldozers and silence the familiar drone of thousands of
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machine saws cutting their way through the thicket of ancient forest
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ecosystems. The thousands of fires that have been set across the Amazon
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forests will be snuffed out. Countless species of plants, insects, and animals
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will be granted a reprieve from what once appeared to be sure death at the
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hands of cattle ranchers and multinational corporations. Millions of
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creatures, many of whom have inhabited this earth for millennia, will regroup,
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reproduce, and repopulate the forests, bearing testimony to the wonders of
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God's creation. Future generations will have the opportunity to know, interact
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with, and appreciate these many diverse life forms; this multitude of wild and
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exotic creatures that creep, crawl, dart, fly over, swing through and stalk the
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ancient forests, all fellow travelers in the unfolding evolutionary saga.
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In Africa, the spreading desert will be slowed, allowing nature to
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regenerate. Wildlife, once abundant in the sub-Sahara will slowly return. So
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too will the rich native flora, turning a semibarren continent back into the
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world's richest garden. Wildebeest, elephants, zebras, rhinos, and lions will
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roam again over the open savannas, a collage of creation bursting forth,
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repopulating ancient habitats.
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In Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Asia, the dissolution of the global
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cattle complex will lead to a similar restoration of ancient forests and
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grasslands, as well as native flora and fauna.
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Fewer cattle will lessen the strain on the world's remaining freshwater
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reserves and decrease the emission of global warming gases into the atmosphere.
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While the biosphere will still be choked with man-made chlorofluorocarbons, the
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worldwide reduction in cattle will greatly reduce methane emissions as well as
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carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the burning of forests and other
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biomass to provide pastureland. The biosphere, the thin chemical envelope that
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stretches from the ocean depths to the stratosphere and that sustains all of
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the life on the planet, will be the ultimate beneficiary of the historic
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decision to transcend the beef culture.
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As millions of Americans, Europeans, Japanese, and others make personal
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choices to move beyond beef, the artificial protein ladder, erected during this
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century, will begin to collapse. The societal decision to forgo beef will
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profoundly affect the economics of human survival in the coming century. In
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the new world that is coming, millions of human beings will voluntarily choose
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to eat lower on the food chain so that millions of others may obtain the
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minimum food calories they need to sustain their lives. This grand
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redistribution of the earth's bounty, the most spectacular and far-reaching in
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history, will unite the human race in a new fraternal bond. A new species
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awareness will begin where the rich meet the poor on the descending rungs of
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the world's protein ladder.
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Moving beyond the beef culture is a revolutionary act, a sign of our
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willingness to reconstitute ourselves, to make ourselves whole. Restoring
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nature, resacralizing our relation ship to the bovine, and renewing our own
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being are inseparably linked. They are the essential elements of a new
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postmodern sensibility, the harbingers of a new earth-centered awareness. The
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dissolution of the cattle complex and the elimination of beef from the diet of
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the human race portends a new chapter in the unfolding of human consciousness.
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By doing battle with "the world steer," a new generation expresses its
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sensitivity to the biosphere and its regard for the plight the poor. By
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eliminating beef from the human diet, our species takes a significant step
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toward a new species consciousness, reaching out in a spirit of shared
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partnership with the bovine and, by extension, other sentient creatures with
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whom we share the earth.
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On August 20th, 1994, at the same time that the Sun Dance was occurring at Pine
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Ridge, South Dakota, "Miracle" arrived. A North American Bison, she was born
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on a "buffalo" farm in Janesville, Wisconsin. Not an Albino, she is a *white*
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buffalo--a unique phenomenon in nature. The farm's owner has sworn to protect
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her granting full access to indigenous people, 24 hours a day.
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According to the philosophy and theology in the legends of the Northern
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Plains Native American people a great event was to occur in 1994. It has
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happened. The White Buffalo has returned and this significant incident is a
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message heralding what is to come. The fourth and final age of humankind is
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upon us and with it comes the spiritual awakening for the human race. All
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indigenous people of the Earth today know of this final age of humankind, and
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we feel that the ceremonies, songs, and paint are the key factors in
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maintaining the balance of the Earth and our connection to Her; as well as
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direct action to prevent Her desecration. We still acknowledge the spiritual
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and natural laws governing this planet who is a living, breathing being. White
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Buffalo's return is a sign that the age of reconnection to the Earth is upon
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us, giving us hope and guidance for the times ahead.
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-Coyote
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Rev. Chris Korda The Church of Euthanasia
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