July Blogging Challenge Day 30
Justify why you do or don't eat meat.
Well I want to say bad things when I see a prompt like that one up there. This is divisive and argumentative at best. Not like the other prompts for the last 2 months. This one sucks.
The bible - 1 Timothy 4:4 says I can - so I do.
Wait, that sounds like I should be wearing a red hat or something. But to be honest, if I did NOT believe in the bible and many things that I learned in it, I probably would not eat meat at all.
Yes I realize how that sounds to a person who thinks animals are the same as humans ethically speaking. I also have issue with how the animals are often killed - it hurts my soul to think of it.
I have on the other hand cut back my consumption of meat to almost nothing, but NOT nothing. I rarely eat it as it is really not great for my health personally. Red meat in particular gives me a heck of a lot of problems if I eat it.
I have read and heard many people talking about how when we age our bodies are less tolerant to meat. I also realize this is not even slightly scientific. But for me and seemingly the people who talk about their issues, it seems to be the way it goes.
Back to sounding like a bible thumping lunatic (I'm not really); It tells us that animals have no souls and only humans do. But there is the thing of other religious texts from other cultures that say all things including grass has a soul. So am I stubborn enough to think my book is the correct source? Nope.
To be honest, it's a vailed justification at best for me to use the bible as why I eat it. There was a time it was 100% and strongly the reason. Now it's just more of a personal belief, and like all beliefs, it can't be proven one bit. Just as no one can prove to me that animals are as worthy as I am of not being eaten.
I also give credit to the idea that as an evolved creature, we should know better and be better. Well that is just not going to bloody happen any time soon. If it did, there would be no ICE raiding home depo in the USA and there would be no wars over land or religion or other bullshit. The fact remains, we are very much NOT evolved at all in my view of reality.
Lastly I also realize the absolute bullshit reasoning it is of me having a pet in the past that I literally treated as my child and when he died it hurt as much as loosing my human family members - and then eating a burger and not giving all that much thought to the sad life and horrible death of the cow.
I'm not perfect, and I can't rationally justify eating meat. To my thinking the opposite is also in play. So we will remain divided.
Side note, the passage above is seemingly in contrast with other parts of the bible. Do note that.
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