Actually, I am middle aged, work all day, and keep some healthy snacks in my office. Why would you want to see me go and grab a double=whopper or something like that? I just don’t understand the anti-vegetarian sentiment.
Well, the Trappist and Benedictines are for the most part, vegetarians, so, being a vegetarian in the Catholic Church, you’ll be in good company.
Remember, though, that in the Old Testament, humans were sacrificed as well as animals. In fact, Abraham was ready to kill his own son before being stopped. And since part of the ritual was consumption of part of the victim would you have to be classified as a cannibal?
There is no shortage of food in the world – we can easily feed the entire population. Hunger is due to the distribution of food – often because corrupt governments and warring tribes use hunger as a weapon.
Well, I’m not the post starter, just the post reviver. I’m not for abortion, and I’ve actually had the opportunity, as a unwed pregnant teen many years ago, to place a baby for adoption. I’m also strongly against the death penalty.
Yes – they would.
As you’ve noted, there are many economic issues involved. However, consider this: it is very costly to feed and water the animals necessary to produce food. If everyone in the world suddenly decided to go vegetarian, young cattle would be slaughted. So would young pigs, chicken, etc. At least with the high demand for beef et al, these animals will be living a healthy (and fattening) life.
While I certainly agree that there are places still inhabited by people today where not eating meat would be almost impossible (and I pass no judgement on people who eat meat in those or any circumstances), I don’t think that in today’s world, the decision to eat or not eat meat is completely morally neutral. Things like factory farming, especially cruel methods of production to produce specialty foods like veil and fois gras, environmental issues, the use of bovine growth hormones, etc were not issues in the time of Jesus, but are part of the package for most meat eaters in westernized counties. You can certainly be a meat eater while not supporting these things by avoiding certain foods, buying local or organic, raising your own cows and chickens, etc.
That’s true! I don’t think that it would ever happen suddenly, though. I would like to think that as time goes on, people will eat less and less meat, and it would be a gradual decline.As you’ve noted, there are many economic issues involved. However, consider this: it is very costly to feed and water the animals necessary to produce food. If everyone in the world suddenly decided to go vegetarian, young cattle would be slaughted. So would young pigs, chicken, etc. At least with the high demand for beef et al, these animals will be living a healthy (and fattening) life.
I think that is something different. I am certainly not trying to ‘prove’ that Jesus didn’t eat meat, and if I came here trying to say something like the fish Jesus ate was actually made out of tofu (well, that’s one way to stretch your 2 fish to feed a multitude), I would expected to be rebutted (but hopefully not ridiculed).
Absolutely, they’d get the same treatment from me as the leaf snappers do.
Seriously though, if someone came here saying it was unethical to drink, my response would be the same.Well so-called factory farming merely means poor farming practice, not that eating meat is bad. However, most of the arguments are often from people, who couldn’t stand to see an animal slaughtered, period. A regular slaughterhouse to them, is immoral.
In fear, no doubt, that he might eat one of them.The Carmelites follow the Rule of St. Albert, but have modified parts of it, where the eating of meat varies. The cloistered monasteries don’t eat meat. They’ve also removed the part where a friar could own two mules.