My oldest daughter has always been a thinker - and has corrected a few of my beliefs, including my political alignments. She was also into not eating meat as a kid.
Here is something to back that line of thinking up:
If we are to be a Millennial people, we will largely or completely disengage from these practices:
President Lorenzo Snow related in his journal the change of heart he had concerning hunting shortly after his baptism:
“While moving slowly forward in pursuit of something to kill, my mind was arrested with the reflection on the nature of my pursuit—that of amusing myself by giving pain and death to harmless, innocent creatures that perhaps had as much right to life and enjoyment as myself. I realized that such indulgence was without any justification, and feeling condemned, I laid my gun on my shoulder, returned home, and from that time to this have felt no inclination for that murderous amusement."
I have a hard time harming any creature - but I have not had the time/immense effort required to convert over to a better way of living/eating.
Does this make you a cultured meat fan??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
ReplyDeleteCultured meat, also called in vitro meat, is meat grown in cell culture instead of inside animals.[1] It is a form of cellular agriculture. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.[2] The first cultured beef burger patty, created by Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University, was eaten at a demonstration for the press in London in August 2013.[3] In part due to technical challenges associated with scaling and cost-reduction, cultured meat has not yet been commercialized. In addition, it has yet to be seen whether consumers will accept cultured meat as meat.[4]
Once this process has been started, it would be theoretically possible to continue producing meat indefinitely without introducing new cells from a living organism.[42] It has been claimed that, conditions being ideal, two months of cultured meat production could deliver up to 50,000 tons of meat from ten pork muscle cells.[43]
Cultured meat production requires a preservative, such as sodium benzoate, to protect the growing meat from yeast and fungus. Collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol and cochineal could be used in different ways during the process.[44]
The price of cultured meat at retail outlets like grocery stores and supermarkets may decrease to levels that middle-class consumers consider to be "inexpensive" due to technological advancements
Now you can eat your meat and not feel bad about killing it.
Yikes, I have a feeling "cultured" will come to mean GMO and then we'll havend to go through a period of advertisement that the meat you are eating is "non-cultured" like we do with "non-GMO". Natural is better probably. My husband and I are just working at the Vegan thing ourselves right now and learning to shift our pallettes to what the Word of Wisdom really teaches.Not perfect at it yet, but obviously what we will be encouraged to practice in the Millennium.
ReplyDeleteThanks Iraq for all you post on your site..... I've been growing ever closer to what the prophet Lorenzo Snow says here.... I remember a couple decades ago when I realized we wouldn't be eating meat during the Millennium..... Hopefully we're all becoming more and more like the lion that will be lying down with the lamb in that blessed day.....
ReplyDeleteDoes everybody out there ignore the Prophet saying to eat meat sparingly. Some may think that was a compromise. Joseph does not compromise.
ReplyDeleteD&C 49:19-21 and D&C 59:15-20 describes how animals, plants, herbs and such are all for the use of man, to be pleasing in appearance, smell, and gladden the hart ect.
I also do not know of too may hunters who take pleasure in the pain and suffering in the animals they hunt. Most do everything they can to reduce the suffering to the animal. Yea there are a few psychopaths out who may take pleasure in the torment of the animal or are just plain spiritually ignorant.
I do not hunt and have no interest in it, even though I came from that culture having grown up in north eastern Utah. The best part of hunting is to find meat that was not contaminated by antibiotics and hormones.
A supplement manufacturer, Standard Process, use the parts, organs, ect. of animals as well as plant products, as a part their supplements to cover all the needs of the body. There are just some elements, enzymes, complex nutrients that can not be extracted from plants alone.
I believe we can, or should become more spiritually attuned to what foods that we should eat, or that which the body craves (minus the sugars), or requires.
We have so much more to worry about with contaminated foods, chemical additives, GMO's, pasteurized, processed food products that have denuded our foods of all the necessary enzymes the body requires.