Representatives of 11 Christian denominations in Kentucky are calling for an end to mountaintop removal, inhumane factory farms and other practices it says are jeopardizing the character of the state’s rural areas.
The Kentucky Council of Churches, wrapping up its two-day annual meeting in Bardstown on Friday, also wants a “broad-based legalization” of undocumented workers. It also calls for a higher cigarette tax, stricter regulations on environmental waste and a curb in the use of gases linked to global warming.
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“Land ownership is being restructured, agricultural production is becoming more heavily industrialized and concentrated in fewer hands, and the earth is being subjected to harmful farming, mining and development practices,” the resolution said.
“…Our country has been built on a strong belief in a Creator-God and on the moral and ethical values inherent in a system of family farms, such as honesty, self-sufficiency yet interdependence, mutual trust, hard work, and neighborliness,” it added. “The destruction of this system also jeopardizes the base on which our urban centers are built.”
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