ALAN ISMOND

Alan Ismond has a Chemical Engineering degree with a minor in Food Technology. He has spent the last 20 years working for the largest corporations in the food industry. This experience has allowed him to see the how the corporate drive for growth and profits has resulted in the compromising of food quality, human health, and environmental sustainability. Alan has also studied alternative methods of food production, health maintenance, and ecology and is convinced that, for every problem that we are now faced with, there is solution.


SACRED ECOLOGY

Everything is connected. Everything happens for a reason. For every problem, there is a solution. Health is our birth right. These ideas run counter to our understanding at the present time of life on this planet. We have been bombarded with negative ideas like: risk/benefit, terminal illness, win/lose, "natural" disasters, truth based on scientific evidence, and so on. We are told that it is normal to have harmful bacteria in our food, and that we should be responsible for making the food "safe" by "handling" and preparing it "properly". We are told that we should expect to get cancer, or some form of neurodegenerative disease as we get older because that is what happens when we age. Our society is fractionated so that government and industry dictate what we should accept as reality based on "scientific facts", religion is relegated to something that we do on weekends, and the arts and beauty are something that we hang in a museum.

Sacred Ecology focuses on unifying the elements of life so that we can rediscover the sustainable health and happiness that we are intended to enjoy and appreciate. What is meant by Sacred? Every world religion and spiritual belief is based on the premise that a compassionate being or entity created the universe. Since everything in the universe comes from one Sacred Source, then everything must be Sacred. This point of view will allow for the reunification of Spirituality (not to be confused with religion) with science, agriculture, business, and government. Suffering in a compassionate universe is the result of exercising free will in a way that is not in harmony with the creative entity or intent that created the universe. The definition of Ecology is the science of the relationships between organisms and their environment. This can apply to humans and their environment on the macro level, as well as harmful bacteria and their environment (animals, humans) on the micro level. Hence, Sacred Ecology involves looking at the relationship between all parts of the universe while being mindful of the original source and intent that created the universe.

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