(soapless) said:Also, if it is a seed, bean, nut, sprout or any whole or
potentially whole lifeform it is killing to eat it.
I seriously doubt that vegetation has feelings or
awareness, and ***definately!!!*** hope that they don't.
If they do, the suffering caused by humans and other
animals is absolutely incredible. Just mowing the lawn
would be a horrible act.
Quoted message said:This is not the case with my diet - but for the
insenitivities of the farmer that "produces" them. A garden
of tomates is a very symbiotic relationship if one craps
there, as the seeds need that partial digestion of protein
coat to sprout.
If plants have feelings then you contribute to
incredible horrors regardless of which types you
consume.
Quoted message said:Also, when i walk, i check more for ants than cars.
Thou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy 12 15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your
animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as
you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the
blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially
unclean and the clean may eat it.
Deuteronomy 14 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox,
the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer,
the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain
sheep. 6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof
divided in two and that chews the cud. 7 However, of those
that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely
divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney.
Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof;
they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 The pig is also
unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the
cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their
carcasses. 9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you
may eat any that has fins and scales. 10 But anything that
does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it
is unclean. 11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But these you
may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13
the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14 any
kind of raven, 15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the
gull, any kind of hawk, 16 the little owl, the great owl,
the white owl, 17 the desert owl, the osprey, the
cormorant, 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and
the bat. 19 All flying insects that swarm are unclean to
you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is
clean you may eat. 21 Do not eat anything you find already
dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your
towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a
foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God.
Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
1 Kings 8 5 and King Solomon and the entire assembly of
Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark,
sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not
be recorded or counted. [...] 63 Solomon offered a
sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the LORD: twenty-two
thousand cattle and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep
and goats. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated
the temple of the LORD.
Mark 7 18 "Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that
nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him
`unclean'? 19 For it doesn't go into his heart but into his
stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus
declared all foods "clean."😉
Quoted message said:Never mind if the cows step on ants,
The point still remains that some types of meat involve
fewer deaths than some types of veggies.
Quoted message said:we have to learn to sit on our hands and myob not
just byob.
