Monday, July 10, 2006 - Why We Raise So Many Animals, Part 3 |
Here’s something that is getting lost in today’s "Wal-Mart-World": the
connection between the animal and the mouth. Let me clarify this. Ask
any 3-year-old where his food comes from. Does milk come from a cow (or
goat!), or does it come already jugged from the refrigerator case at
the grocery store? Are chicken legs an actual chicken’s legs, or do
they just come vacuum packed from the meat case? How do this milk and
these chicken legs get from the animals to our mouths? In the case of
meat, an animal must be slaughtered.
I know that seems like
common sense, but the way we buy our meat nowadays - is this a
connection that we make every time we pick up a package of meat at the
store? Blood has literally been shed so that we could eat our dinner.
Gross, but it is reality. Blood shed so that we can be sustained….I
suspect that this physical aspect of our lives has a spiritual
application. I think that when we get so far removed from the origins
of our food, it is a sort of sanitizing that bit by bit removes our
empathy from the reality of the cross.
I realize that sounds a little extreme, but consider this: what was the
purpose in God giving us meat to eat? After the flood, God was
preparing to establish His covenant with Noah to never flood the earth
again. God said
“Everything that lives and moves will be
food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you
everything. But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in
it.“ (Genesis 9:3-4)
So the blood had to be completely
drained from the animal before it was consumed. My thoughts are that
perhaps God gave us meat to eat as a metaphor for the life sustaining
power of Jesus’ blood, shed so that we might live. I don’t know if this
“theory” of mine can be proven through scripture, but doesn’t it sound
like something God would do?
I’m not saying that we should
preside over each and every butchering for every bite of meat we ever
eat, but what I am saying is this: there is value in being closer to the point of food production than the sanitized, blood-free supermarket.
Next time I will talk about the benefits for children when their family raises livestock.
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Monday, July 10, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by momof2 |
| I enjoyed reading this entry! I have been reading a book called Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher little by little while ds2 nurses and your entry today was along the same lines as what I just finished reading a bit ago! |
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Monday, July 10, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by southofthegnatline |
Excellent post - and it is the truth. So much of the population are just cattle in the cattle drive and hardly pick their heads to look beyond the view in front of them.........
Blessings for a great week,
Harriette Jacobs |
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