I agree with the I's reasoning about the way in which people consume flesh; its an industry of consumers and capitalist exploiters. It starts from the land, huge tracts of fertile land are cleared for grazing and rearing animals, and when the demand is high, to meet that farmers inject animals with all kinds of hormones so they cash in on the market. Animals are raised purely for economic gain, even those that are free range or organic, still the same profit-making desire disguised as a humanitarian effort to cleanse the conscience of the organic/free range farmer who is still producing at a higher price for those that can afford. So for the rich eating organic is fashionable and affordable while the poor eat the mass-produced stuff that's injected with hormones so it makes people bigger and problems of obesity arise. Takeout food is laced with all kinds of things so people keep eating more and their taste buds develop a craving for it, shutting down on the taste of what fruit or a vegetable might taste like...In ancient of days hunting was a ritual, ancestors prayed before killing an animal and it was given as offering to the Most High before consumption as the Ible says. There were also times of eating meat - according to a calender of feasts and there were also fasts from meat as the book of Daniel tells us. Nowadays people eat without iditation, without knowing where the animal came from or without thought that this flesh is not naturally raised. There's alot of economic politics involved as meat is a billion dollar industry especially in Western countries where meat culture is characterised by KFC, Burger King, McDonalds etc, whose advertising blinds people's sight. Eating is not only a physical action but a process that involves thought, what am I putting into my temple? Have I given thanks? What am I giving thanks for? More people need to think deeply about what they eat and why, that's the only way to save our earth. Imagine all the animals, the rainforest, the savanna bush, the herbs, species of plants that could be saved. This world is not only for today, but tomorrow's generations too.
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