Eating Animals as Food

While I don't really approve of PETA or their agenda, I certainly agree that we have a responsibility to treat God's creation with respect. Abusing an animal just for kicks before you kill it for supper is just plain cruel. I'm not a vegetarian, but I am increasingly aware of the man-made chemicals and garbage we're putting into our bodies under the disguise of food. Lately, I've started to buy more organic foods, even meat, not because I want to be an environmentalist tree-hugger, but because all the chemicals are causing me and my family to have food allergies.

Recently, I found out that Kellogg's is using genetically modified corn to make their cereals. Sorry, but if God made the corn, who are we to try to "improve" it? Isn't it funny that we have so many kinds of cancer when years ago people never heard of it? It's just my opinion, but I think alot of it has to do with what we're putting into our bodies.

 

I know I'm on a lonely ideological island here, but I don't think there is such a thing as animal abuse. If that option were possible, killing them for consumption would be wrong and it isn't, IMHO.

 

I don't know about that. Didn't God give specific directions for slitting the throat of sacrificial animals? It's not like they tortured the animal first, it was a quick death. Animals can feel pain, so wouldn't inflicting excess pain be considered abuse? It would certainly be unnecessary at any rate.

 

I don't know about this.. I am more like ABCGrad on this one...

Have you ever seen a cat "play" with a mouse before it kills it... it makes me angry...

If someone mistreats an animal, and causes it pain before they kill it for food, then it is wrong, and Joe is right...

If killing it for consumption is labeled as abuse the way PETA wants to, it is going too far.

I have helped slaughter animals back home on the farm growing up, and it was always done fast and respectful...

Chemicals, genetically altering, and putting diseased meat into the food supply is another subject altogether...

Genetically altering has been going on for yrs, ever since that guy that came up with genetics played with his peas...
So that doesn't bother me too bad...
If one genetic line of corn produces more crops, and one genetic line produces better tasting corn.... mix the two.

Wait, that is not altering the genes though....that is mix breeding.

But, if we now have the technology to change a certain gene to produce more corn, what's the harm?
That is using the wisdom God gave man.

It is being a good steward of everything God gives us.

 

I don't have any statistics nearby about the corn, but remember Dolly the sheep? She was cloned. She lived a much shorter life span than a normal sheep. Now what happens if we start eating cloned beef or sheep or chicken? Will we have a shorter life span, too? I don't know, but it kind of scares me to think about it.

 

There is a part of me that is scared of this too.. I don't think we know enough to mess around with Genes yet...

But cloned sheep won't be a problem for me... I HATE lambchops!!! lol

 

Adding more preservatives and lab created drugs to our food isn't a good thing, it needs to stop.

They only do this because of their greed.

 

So you think PETA has something to do with God? They beleive they are protecting God's creation?
I sure hope you can prove that with a link.

 

And how long ago has it been since I posted this remote piece of trivia? And you remember it this long?
Something fishy here.
My HUSBAND worked for a conagra owned chicken processing plant for a week once, they kept sending him home due to lack of work in unloading where he worked.

 

No on the 3 different news reports I saw it was beef from 2/2006 till 2/2008. So the recall just happened but the beef is from 2006.

 

Quick death? Cutting the throat is a quick death?
I grew up on the farm where my uncles butchered hogs every fall. Cutting the throat was how they killed them, it isn't as quick and oainless as you think.

 

PETA is not credible at all. And they do have an agenda.
They upset the balance of nature putting "cute cuddly seals" and stopping the hunt of them which has greatly diminished the supply of cod off the Atlantic coast.

They are hypocritical in their value and definition of an animal. They put as much value on an animal as they do on the life of a human.
They put more value on the life of a seal then an aborted baby, which it seems, they have no regard at all.
They don't differentiate between different types of animals. All animals are not equal in their sight, as they are in God's sight. Does a PETA lover swat at mosquitos? Do they fear rattlesnakes?
Do they kill micro-organisms (also a part of the animal kingdom), everytime they eat food, or drink water? The answer is yes. One-celled parasitic animals are common everywhere. One of the most common is the ameba from which one gets amebic dyssentery. But the entameba lives naturally in the small intestine. And it dies there too. They step on animals they cannot see. If they farm, they kill millions of animals every time they plow a field. Do they advocate that all the nation stop farming because of all the insects and animals from worms, slugs, beetles, etc. will all be killed? Are not these lives just as important as the lives as seals, deer and cows? Of course they are. All animals play a part in God's kingdom--in every aspect of nature. Upset any part of the ecosystem, even the smallest part of it, and you are asking for trouble.

And BTW, are you all going to throw away your leather shoes and belts, etc. if you give up eating beef?

 

No Such Thing as Pain FREE Death

I agree that God gave us the animals to eat...however, I don't believe there is a pain free manner to kill an animal. All forms of death in slaughterhouses inflict some form of pain, but, most have little suffering, I hope. I don't believe in PETA's methods, at times, so I don't give them much credibility.

The California slaughterhouse is just the tip of the ice berg [so to speak] in how barbaric our methods have become in an effort to process in quantity, the meat needed by the consumer. We would feel different about eating meat if in fact we spent an hour at the slaughter house.

For example: My wife and I make use of cremation and burial when it comes to family pets, because we've seen the realities of a rendering-plant when we lived in Nebraska.

Maybe the Jewish religion has the most humane form of slaughtering animals for human consumption, but, I don't know firsthand. However, if I had to visit a slaughterhouse, I'm quite sure I'd become a vegetarian on the spot.

Shalom,

Pastor Paul :type:

 

These are the people you want to believe and trust? They are not animal friendly.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
http://www.animalscam.com/
http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL

rather then find these dogs homes, they killed them(warning video is disturbing)
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-truth-about-peta/3010526210

http://www.armyofgod.com/PETA.html


this is PETA


http://www.armyofgod.com/PETA.html

 

I have done exactly that, in the case of chicken, pork, fish, and beef, but not sheep (mutton) or turkey. In fact, I can show you multiple ways to cure pork, cut the animals up, and make your own sausage, hamburger, salt bacon, 'Country' hams, etc..

I have 'cleaned' fish, as well, but they, like the other aminals, were usually dead, as a rule, when I did this.

The live ones all would run or fly away when I tried this, except for the fish, who could not make it very far on dry land.

Ed

 

Leviticus 10:12-15 And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
14 And the wave breast and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they be thy due, and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel.
15 The heave shoulder and the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.

The Lord commanded the priests to eat portions of the sacrifices that were brought to them. It was the breast and shoulder pieces of the sacrificial animals. This was God's method of providing for the priests in Levitical system for the Levites had no inheritance of their own. The people provided for them.
It was a command of God for all Israelites and for their generations forever.

God commanded the Israelites to eat mean.

In application one could say that we are priests before God.

 

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs 12:10

In these verses, God sends the Isrealites meat to eat:

And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as if it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. Numbers 11:31-32

God sends Elijah bread and meat to eat:

And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 1 Kings 17:6