Documentary: Forks Over Knives

[maltmom]

Which wines go well with bacon?

I only drink white wine…so any good white will do. I had bacon for dinner.

 

[Link0126]

I can understand eating conventional meat when you don’t know how bad animals suffer due to factory farming. But what I don’t understand is how people of morality (Catholics in this case,) who in all other areas of their lives take into account their actions and the effects those actions have on others, can make jokes and take so much glee in eating meat when you know how badly animals are raised and treated.

Maybe you are invinicably ignorant or just don’t understand. I hope that is the case. B/c if you have ever seen the horror that these animals live and die in than I really think there may be something wrong with you. I can understand not becoming a vegetarian and not considering the subject as important as others or animals as important as humans. But to not take the subject seriously at all or to not look into more humane alternatives to supermarket meat is in my opinion completely callous and not at all in line with our religious sensibilities.

 

[CopticChristian]

animalrightsireland.blogspot.ie/2012/09/forks-over-knives-showing-in-dublin.html

There are also compelling health reasons, in addition to compelling ethical reasons based on animal suffering, to stop consuming animal products.

Spence,

Since this is CAF and Vegan is not a religion I wondered about religions that do not eat meat…Jains don’t eat meat and some other Hindu’s don’t eat meat.

I discovered that many in the world eat meats that I may not have thought of as food however it does demonstrate the variety of meats eaten.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food_and_drink

I also had it in the back of my mind that Judaism was a practice that tended towards being Vegetarian…found here…

jewishveg.com/schwartz/should_jews.html

There is no offense to eating meat as a Catholic and Catholic Christianity does not prohibit meat eating…it is just a matter of preference…

Protestants with the exception of 7th Day Adventists eat meat.

Good luck with trying to convince the world that animals are not food…

 

[CopticChristian]

I have considered becoming vegetarian, but Jesus wasn’t. For the first 2000 years the Jews atoned for their sins by slaughtering their most perfect prized animals to God. Then they were required to eat some of it. Then Jesus came & is called the Lamb of God because he was sacrificed to save us. Jesus had the fisherman put out into deep waters & rewarded them with a catch of fish soooo big it almost sunk the boat!

Since it is part of our religious heritage, and culture to eat meat, I don’t think you’ll find much interest in your cause. However I strongly feel we need to treat all animals humanely.

Regina,

You may want to put things into perspective. The Jews were required to kill and eat the animals that were in essence the god’s of other nations. It was a punishment to teach them that there was one God…

If you consider this then ask yourself…why do you, I or anyone need to look at the punishment inflicted for idolatry as a reference for the historical issue of meat eating?

Does that make sense to reference this heritage of punishment for idolatry?

 

[CopticChristian]

Vegan is Indian for Can’t Hunt.

Seriously: We are called to be good stewards. Meat is an acceptable food. No one is required to eat meat.

I think a 7 oz filet mignon is much better than a 24 oz Porterhouse. Especially if the wine is well chosen.

Fred,

From a health perspective you only need 0.8 to 1.0 grams/kg body weight of protein a day. The daily amount of meat would actually be about 2-4 oz of meat a day that is required for health and maintenance. Most people eat way too much meat. The exess? Well that gets expelled in the urine and taxes the kidneys.

Your 7 oz filet is almost twice the daily requirement for the average person protein need.