Posted on 05/23/2019 6:00:27 PM PDT by deport
How many “living creatures” do you destroy every time you wash your hands? Billions.
“There is room at the table for all of God’s creatures...right next to the mashed potatoes.”
Psalm 104:21 ESV The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God
That said, it is a great shame and sinful to operate in such a fashion that one error should cause the flesh of so many animals’ to go to waste. Whoever is responsible and slacked off was disrespectful to God the Creator, to the farmer who raised them, to one’s fellow laborers who did faithfully process their portion of the meat, and of course to the animals themselves.
Some of the confusion is caused by Biblical references in English translations where references to a living thing’s (animal or plant)’s spirit of life being assumed to mean the same thing as a soul. In the original language it is probably more obvious that there is a distinction.
I was being facetious but appreciate it. I vaguely remember that.
I’m pretty sure most of my steaks come from vegan cows.
That counts, right?
Doesn’t say that bushes have souls, of course, but this may be where some people might get the idea...it does seem to attribute a certain level of awareness even to shrubs. Maybe this was also where Mohammed dreamed up he idea that rocks and bushes will speak up and out Jews hiding behind them.
Job 12:7-10 English Standard Version (ESV)
7
“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8
or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;[a]
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9
Who among all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10
In his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
Didn’t some wag say the Vegans should thank us everytime we bite into a steak as it is another blade of grass that won’t be eaten...
Eat a burger, save grass.
While back it was ‘rumored’ that all the chicken and beef processing plants were manned by Somalis and other similar types...talk about people handling your food....
I made a pit stop one night got my coffee hit the head, got my coffee grabbed one up.
I went to check out and the clerk was some kind of ME’er with a dirty white tunic and ‘pajamas’ and his hands looked like he had been changing oil in cars all night.
EVEN though I KNEW he had nothing to do with it, I just couldn’t bring myself to purchase the sandwiches.
Thanks for that.
You some kind of sleeper agent or somethin’?
CC
My advice. Don’t eat meat. You’ll avoid all
Kinds of problems like this
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