Posted on 01/07/2025 11:12:57 AM PST by DallasBiff
In a world where meat is often a token of comfort, health, hospitality, and abundance, one can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the conjunction “meat and evil.” Why pull meat into the orbit of harm, pestilence, ill-will, and privation? From another perspective, the answer is obvious: meat—the flesh of slaughtered animals taken for food—is the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature, violent, and often gratuitous. The truth is that meat has a checkered history in the West. From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world, meat is well-marbled with evil and its minions: sin, violence, injustice, destruction, suffering, and death. Beyond keeping company with these obtrusive forms of evil, meat’s success at remaining, nevertheless, in our collective good graces illuminates some of evil’s subtler shades too. We might learn something of insidiousness, self-deception, rationalization, and bad faith by exploring why the ever-strengthening consensus that habitual meat-eating is unhealthful, morally dubious, and environmentally damaging is often still no match for a philosopher’s savor of cheeseburgers. My aim is to consider meat’s fitness for a place in the Western history of evil by reflecting briefly on its outsized roles at the bookends of this narrative: meat’s primeval history in Genesis, and its contribution today to ethical and environmental problems of arguably apocalyptic proportions.
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Or, they did in 2019 when the article was written?
Yes they don’t know you can’t make a pride of lions eat oats.
When you convince the lions, tigers, and wolves to go vegan, I’ll listen to your moralistic platitudes. In the meantime, I’ll have mine medium rare.
MAJOR PREMISE: The Seder dinner before the destruction of the Temple included a lamb, slaughtered by the patriarch of each household on the doorstep of the house. It is sacred, and defined by God as a Jewish ceremony.
MINOR PREMISE: Chris was the perfect unity of man and God, an observant Jew, and never failed to eat and observe the Seder in his 33 years on Earth. None of Christ’s recorded words abolish the Seder, indeed, He spoke that He “came not to abolish the Law, but to complete it”, and that he “did not wipe away the Law, not a jot or a tittle.”
CONCLUSION: Christ was a meat eater. And who am I to deny Christ’s actions. QED. Suck it up, PETA, and don’t try to make my Christ a prancing pony to beguile the biblically illiterate.
Also... loaves and fishes. No big warning that “Hey, PEOPLE! I just made through God’s miracles, enough fish for you to eat, but you BETTER NOT!!!!”
These people hate life.
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