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Dr. Mary E. McGann, R.S.C.J., is adjunct associate professor of liturgical studies at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif. She is the author of The Meal That Reconnects: Eucharistic Eating and the Global Food Crisis (Liturgical Press, 2020).
A leading contributor to climate change is the release of methane gas from livestock grazing in pastures and confined in feedlots around the globe. (iStock/dusanpetkovic)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Mary E. McGann
Pope Francis has called for Catholics to support principles of “total sustainability.” A meat industry that warms the planet, ravages forests and fouls our water is incompatible with those principles.