Posted on 02/02/2015 5:08:56 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Of course, this is really about controlling the food supply - a typical ploy of dictators. The right should never buy into it.
BINGO. Yet look at those arguing with me here.
/johnny
There’s a baby in your bath water.
One doesn’t need to support greenpeace because one wishes to use the best ingredients to build this body we have for our time on the earth.
You can perform more good religious works for longer if you eat as cleanly as you can. If you understand the biology behind what exactly your body needs and even what helps it heal and thrive, and aim for that as fuel. It isn’t any sort of worship. It’s just respect, like other symbols of religion are respected. Our living bodies deserve as much respect as we give our dead ones.
Also, I disagree with you that genetically adding pesticide resistance to foods is healthy for animals. Be careful what studies you read — many are not run by independents.
I agree with you. Christians or anyone should be able to choose their own food. I hope that they inform themselves about nutrition and what they eat, just to respect their bodies while they are in this life. But that is up to them.
Yeah, it is getting harder and harder to learn what will nourish us, make us thrive. And most of what is taught in degree nutrition programs is outdated and wrong. A lot of people are having to do N=1 experiments on themselves, using their own bloodwork as their findings, or their own well being or pain levels.
One of the most wrench-throwing discoveries in what we need inside us is the DNA testing of the gut biome. It seems that a lot of what we need to eat is to nourish THEM so that they might in turn keep US humming along.
Fascinating.
I agree with you although I would characterize it as puritanism.
I will never know enough, and cannot do what God does. That's why I rely on the senses He gave me.
You can bet there isn't any light or diet anywhere in my food. Just lots of basic ingredients (not out of boxes) and lots of manual labor, cooking or fermenting or whatever.
I am not a better person because 'I care' or try to stay informed. That's why I call it food fetishism, because that seems to be the point for many.
/johnny
No, it is not asceticism.
Ascesis involves willingly giving up a good, not condemning another’s enjoyment of a good, as the monk or nun gives up marriage to following what St. Paul commends as a superior way, but does not condemn marriage (there are numerous ancient canons against despising marriage, in fact forbidding the taking of monastic vows if the motivation is avoidance of marriage, rather than the pursuit of holiness. Or as Orthodox Christians on (most) Wednesdays and Fridays, and during Great Lent and the other canonical fast, give up rich foods (there is a canonical list) which we otherwise enjoy, particularly during celebratory periods following Christmas and Pascha. Or even giving up the good of fasting this present week as an ascetic exercise to remind ourselves to imitate the humility of the Publican, rather than the pride of the Pharisee (yesterday’s Gospel, always read on the first of the four Sundays before the start of Great Lent.
Well, looks like we totally agree. Dang. ;)
/johnny
We disagree. Food should be a positive addition to our lives and body. And It IS delicious, most of it, and strangely, sometimes things that are bitter like some greens, we crave because we need those nutrients.
Now, I admit, we are on a Christian thread, and I don’t know the theology of diet in Christianity. But in Judaism we do place a priority over the conditions surrounding our bodily pleasures, and then proceed to thoroughly enjoy them. (I know both our religions do that for sex - has to be married, etc - we do this for food as well. Kashrut and also to promote health. And we love food too.)
Another column from left field??
These people should try telling Asia what not to eat. lol
wheat germ and tofu shaped into fake meat is real food?
And I stand by my statement that you are using F.R.'s Bandwidth to push your own ends while actively working against our people.
What about this huh?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3253397/posts?page=1
BTW, Sarah Palin has executive experience and you sure as hell don't support her.
Solicitor General of Texas, the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice and etc.
Christianity, like Judaism, has a proscription against gluttony. Neither religion says that yoghurt is better than GMO corn flakes.
If you would call it Puritanism then you don’t know what a Puritan is. Never forget it was the Puritan’s who were considered the wild Christians of the early colonial era. The Quakers considered them decadent sinners because the women wore colorful clothing.
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