Is this world disgusting--are we meatbots?

[Robert_Sock]

Does anybody else find it despicable that humans often eat dead things, like mutilated chicken? I remember the first time I bought raw chicken from the supermarket and was terrified when I became fully aware that I was holding mutilated pieces of a dead chicken? I was a little amused at the whole experience, but soon afterward I became a vegetarian.

That’s not the only thing that bothered me, but the human digestive tract is even grosser. What happens to that dead chicken after I eat it, and digest it, is disgusting to me!

Are we mere meatbots? Are we living in a truly dreadful nightmare here in this miserable and corrupt world?

It’s only in the afterlife we will be garmented with glorified bodies. No more eating or biological decay. We will be in a higher-ordered world that will make this lower world seem gross and disgusting.

Comments welcome!

 

[Prophesy]

Does anybody else find it despicable that humans often eat dead things, like mutilated chicken? I remember the first time I bought raw chicken from the supermarket and was terrified when I became fully aware that I was holding mutilated pieces of a dead chicken? I was a little amused at the whole experience, but soon afterward I became a vegetarian.

That’s not the only thing that bothered me, but the human digestive tract is even grosser. What happens to that dead chicken after I eat it, and digest it, is disgusting to me!

Are we mere meatbots? Are we living in a truly dreadful nightmare here in this miserable and corrupt world?

It’s only in the afterlife we will be garmented with glorified bodies. No more eating or biological decay. We will be in a higher-ordered world that will make this lower world seem gross and disgusting.

Comments welcome!

And yet I still love chicken and steak. Christ, Himself, ate slaughtered lamb as well.

-Prophesy

 

[puzzleannie]

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That’s not the only thing that bothered me, but the human digestive tract is even grosser. What happens to that dead chicken after I eat it, and digest it, is disgusting to me!

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humans are omnivores so if God created our bodies to function on a diversified diet then nothing that supports human health can be in and of itself a disgusting food, nor can the means the Creator build into our bodies to extract nutrition from food imbibed be disgusting. Hardly appetizing, but fascinating to the student of science. We make our decisions on what to ingest on the basis of what supports health. We eschew that which detracts from health and function of our bodies. We make the same decision on what we allow into our hearts and minds.

 

[Robert_Sock]

And yet I still love chicken and steak. Christ, Himself, ate slaughtered lamb as well.

-Prophesy

I like chicken and steak as well. I’m no longer a vegetarian, but I’m looking beyond this life.

 

[cargau]

Does anybody else find it despicable that humans often eat dead things, like mutilated chicken? I remember the first time I bought raw chicken from the supermarket and was terrified when I became fully aware that I was holding mutilated pieces of a dead chicken? I was a little amused at the whole experience, but soon afterward I became a vegetarian.

That’s not the only thing that bothered me, but the human digestive tract is even grosser. What happens to that dead chicken after I eat it, and digest it, is disgusting to me!

Are we mere meatbots? Are we living in a truly dreadful nightmare here in this miserable and corrupt world?

It’s only in the afterlife we will be garmented with glorified bodies. No more eating or biological decay. We will be in a higher-ordered world that will make this lower world seem gross and disgusting.

Comments welcome!

Actually, I find macaroni ajnd cheese and cauliflower to be particuality disgusting. Can’t understand why anyone would eat the stuff. But, then, as my mother used to say, to each their own.

As for the digestive system, I think it is a marvel of Divine engineering. What would our existence be if we didn’t have one?

Maybe its me, but I think a lot of vegetarians and vegans have a different kind of outlook. Not trying to be difficult, I just don’t get it.

 

[Prophesy]

I like chicken and steak as well. I’m no longer a vegetarian, but I’m looking beyond this life.

So what about the beyond. I don’t think food is a concern for there.

-Prophesy

 

[Robert_Sock]

So what about the beyond. I don’t think food is a concern for there.

-Prophesy

Most of my spiritual energy and contemplative prayer deals with the Hereafter! No, I don’t think food is a problem there.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Does anybody else find it despicable that humans often eat dead things, like mutilated chicken? …!

It beats eating live things.

 

[Warrior1979]

Human physiology is more similar to herbivores than omnivores or carnivores. We basically don’t need to consume animal products to survive, with the possible exception of Vitamin B12. It has been argued that B12 was found in nature in non-animal foods in the past, but is no longer because of manner food is manufactured and processed (I don’t if this theory is correct).

 

[Robert_Sock]

Human physiology is more similar to herbivores than omnivores or carnivores. We basically don’t need to consume animal products to survive, with the possible exception of Vitamin B12. It has been argued that B12 was found in nature in non-animal foods in the past, but is no longer because of manner food is manufactured and processed (I don’t if this theory is correct).

Being a vegetarian does not eliminate the grossness of our human nature for me. Consider the following excerpt from On Human Misery, Book 1, Chapter 22 of* The Imitation of Christ* by Thomas a Kempis:

The more spiritual a man desires to become, the more bitter does this present life grow for him, for he sees and realizes more clearly the defects and corruptions of human nature. For to eat and drink, to wake and sleep, to rest and labour, and to be subject to all the necessities of nature is a great trouble and affliction to the devout man, who would rather be released and set free from all sin.

 

[Sair]

Being a vegetarian does not eliminate the grossness of our human nature for me. Consider the following excerpt from On Human Misery, Book 1, Chapter 22 of* The Imitation of Christ* by Thomas a Kempis:

The more spiritual a man desires to become, the more bitter does this present life grow for him, for he sees and realizes more clearly the defects and corruptions of human nature. For to eat and drink, to wake and sleep, to rest and labour, and to be subject to all the necessities of nature is a great trouble and affliction to the devout man, who would rather be released and set free from all sin.

From my perspective, you would do better to learn to enjoy the necessities of life in this world. You’re not going to survive on air alone! The visceral nature of our experiences is what gives them grounding for us - we can only imagine the afterlife (if we think it exists) but we can really, physically experience this one. What is there to desire in a spiritual (by which I presume you mean immaterial) existence anyway?

 

[Robert_Sock]

What is there to desire in a spiritual (by which I presume you mean immaterial) existence anyway?

My sense is that it’s referring to our glorified bodies in the World to Come.

 

[Moontown_Rabbit]

Christ taught that we cannot worship both God and Mammon. The term “Mammon” has been variously interpreted as money, the flesh, some kind of demon, the world, and so on. The general impression I get is that He is distinguishing between worshiping the creator and worshiping creation (i.e. pantheism). This does not mean we must hate creation, just that we must not give it more importance than it deserves. He reinforces this when He points out that it is not what goes into the mouth that makes a man unclean, but what comes out of the mouth. This teaching must have been hard for his Jewish disciples, for they had many dietary laws. In the Book of Acts Peter receives a vision indicating that all animals are clean. Initially he resists this teaching (because of his Jewish background) but then accepts it and promulgates it. That part of our society that has been stripped of its Christian heritage offers us a truly overwhelming amount of dietary advice. There are even some “Christian” sects that have reintroduced bans on pork, certain seafoods, and so on. We must keep in mind the words of Christ in order to keep things in their proper perspective.

 

[GRATEFULONEjim]

I am a meatbot Now that you have got me thinking that in Heaven there may be no reason to eat, I had better get my fill in this life

 

[HurricaneAnne]

Human physiology is more similar to herbivores than omnivores or carnivores. We basically don’t need to consume animal products to survive, with the possible exception of Vitamin B12. It has been argued that B12 was found in nature in non-animal foods in the past, but is no longer because of manner food is manufactured and processed (I don’t if this theory is correct).

There are no non-animal forms of Vitamin B12. Even B12 supplements are animal products. There are “pseudo” B12 compounds produced by various bacteria that some vegans may consume that are active in the laboratory assays used to detect serum B12 levels, but these are not biologically active in the human body.

Lacto-ovo-vegetarians can find dietary sources of biologically active B12, but strict vegans really can’t.

To say that B12 was found in non-animal sources before the advent of food manufacturing is an untestable hypothesis. Cobalamin was only discovered in the 1920s, which is after the mass manufacturing of food products was already begun. Also, if one uses the start of the 20th century as the beginning of the mass availability of food processing (likely a generous estimate), that leaves a very small amount of time for the complete eradication of non-animal sources of B12 that are biologically active in humans…especially since, to this day, there are areas of the Earth in which manufactured foods are not consumed.

Form follows function. Humans have incisors, which are made for cutting meat, in addition to flat teeth used for chewing plant matter. We are omnivores.

That’s not the only thing that bothered me, but the human digestive tract is even grosser. What happens to that dead chicken after I eat it, and digest it, is disgusting to me!

The OP seems to be more disgusted by human and animal bodily functions than by the consumption of meat itself. Even vegans produce feces. Perhaps it would be better to focus on the incredible miracle that is the body, which the Lord created to be able to extract beneficial nutrients from ingested food while leaving non-beneficial compounds behind.

 

[Warrior1979]

Form follows function. Humans have incisors, which are made for cutting meat, in addition to flat teeth used for chewing plant matter. We are omnivores.

I’m well aware of this argument. Our incisors look more like the teeth of a herbivore than that of a carnivore. They even pale in comparison to other species with similar DNA…ever see what a gorilla’s incisors look like?

This isn’t an example of what I was talking about. I’m referring to things like the lack of bodies to produce Vitamin C, the length of the digestive tract, etc.

 

[Robert_Sock]

The OP seems to be more disgusted by human and animal bodily functions than by the consumption of meat itself. Even vegans produce feces. Perhaps it would be better to focus on the incredible miracle that is the body, which the Lord created to be able to extract beneficial nutrients from ingested food while leaving non-beneficial compounds behind.

I tend to imagine what life here on earth looks like from the perspective of Heaven. It’s when looking at things from this perspective that I sense extreme humility! Meatbots, all of us!