Posted on 07/30/2024 4:39:54 PM PDT by DallasBiff
In 2018, slaughterhouses, factory farms, and smaller farms killed around 2.27 million sheep in the US alone. Most of these sheep were young lambs who went to their premature deaths so we could eat their meat.
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Okay is it more expensive to buy halal lamb?
You went Janet Jackson and married a Muslim?
“Why You Shouldn’t Eat Lamb”
Because it tastes like crap.
We ate our rack last week and wrapping went out in last Monday’s garbage. Two more weeks before we shop.
Back in WW2 my dad served in the US Marines in the south Pacific.
And the US Military decided to feed many of the troops lamb and mutton from Australia and New Zealand.
Several times a day. All week, month, year(s) long.
Lamb for breakfast, mutton for lunch and dinner too!
When the PX ship arrived monthly with supplies, everything edible on the ship got purchased within an hour. Candy bars - Everything that was not lamb or mutton. (You name it!)
The war ended. Dad came home, met and married my Mom after him telling her that she was free to cook anything she wanted. Except lamb or mutton. - Forbidden from the house those items were. He was serious!
So I was in my 20s before I ever ate lamb or mutton.
“Dad hates it so it must be Awful,” I thought
Then I tried - and liked it. Especially lamb chops - yummm!
I still eat it occasionally to this day.
It depends on the breed and the diet. When I ran sheep we ate ewes amd rams, and they were quite good.
“The injunction applies if it’s done knowingly, too.”
Nothing in 1 Corinthians 8 supports that statement. The focus of that passage deals with not allowing your liberty in Christ to become a stumbling block to other believers. Eating meat offered to idols is not a sin, because we know there is but one God, and those making the offerings are participating in a vain gesture. But if others who see you partake in that liberty are still new and weak in their understanding would be offended, or conversely might also partake only to have their conscience convict them, then you should abstain when in their presence, and should not flaunt your liberty in that area to them - to do so is not loving them as Christ has loved you.
No, but Acts 15:20 and 15:29 are unambiguous, even in context.
I hope the author of this article never goes to Greece just before Easter. Finding live lambs for sale tied outside butcher shops, even in Athens, will result in some severe PTSD.
Our office staff in Afghanistan was having a party. The sheep was in the courtyard. I didn't go to the party, but the next day they brought me some meat. It wasn't cut, just ripped off with a bone still there. I couldn't eat it. I'm not a "farm boy" and it was too psychologically unsettling that I had just seen that meat alive the day before. So the guard got a treat.
>There’s nothing more delicious in this world than a roasted leg of lamb, salt-crusted and seasoned with cloves of garlic.<
Would love to try that.
And boneless leg of lamb for $5.99/lb. We eat 2 or 3 monthly.
The last time I had lamb was last Summer at the King’s Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg. Madeira braised shank of lamb was fantastic.
God’s in trouble with these guys.
NOT!
What losers wanting us not to eat meat. Just little incremental shaming tactics singling out lambs this time.
Context is key. In Acts 15, they were sending a letter to Gentiles who had only recently been converted to Christianity, and who had spent their lives worshipping idols. In that context, it was important if not imperative for them to completely divorce themselves from those past practices, and eating food sacrificed to idols would likely cause issues with their faith and/or their consciences. This was also the context of Paul’s admonition in 1 Corinthians. In that case he was admonishing mature Christians to not let their freedom in Christ become a stumbling block to the new Christians just coming out of idol worship. To do so, THAT would be a sin.
So to put this all in context, if I went to a halal butcher and bought lamb, took it home, cooked it and ate it, that would not be a sin. However, if I invited you over and served that lamb to you, knowing your conscience would be offended by it, that would be a sin. So would telling you all about what a great meal I had eating that halal meat.
A more common application of the principle would be if I as a Christian did not believe alcohol in moderation was a sin, but knowing you were a recovering alcoholic or even just considered any alcohol consumption a sin, ordered a beer with dinner with you.
I would much prefer mutton over lamb but it’s nowhere to be found. Grew up eating game and enjoy strong flavors.
Good point.
I grew up on a ranch and we had some sheep but mostly cattle.
I stick with what I said about mutton.
Eating lamb is Biblical, it was the single most animal sp used as a sacrifice to God. Also sheep have no anatomical method of self defense other than to flee thus they give up their life quite easily. Sheep have individual personalities? Yes they do, as does all mammals. They all possess individual personalities.
you wern’t supposed to eat the stuffing.
I like lamb. Haven’t had it in a while.
We had lamb chops and leg of lamb occasions for dinner when I was growing up.
The Ishtar Restaurant at Baghdad Airport had selections listed as “lamp chops,” “lamp curry” and “braised lamp” on the menu. I always want to call it that now.
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