Why Don't You Eat (Insert Non-Vegan Food Here)

This blog is going to be a little more about the actual treatment I am against and less about the reasons I believe I am justified in my stance as a Christian.

Before I address the question of why I don't eat things I want to explain that I know that not all farm animals are treated the same.
The answers I give address the most common treatment, and because most people have no idea where their food comes from, is probably a lot more common than most people realise.

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Q: Why don't you eat meat?

A: My main reason for not eating meat is the cruelty. Its not right to pump an animal full of antibiotics and hormones to the point where it grows so fast that its own legs can't support it and they break. Animals should not have to spend their entire lives in a cage that touches them on every side. Its not necessary.

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Q: Why don't you drink milk?

A: A lot of people seem to have the idea that cows magically keep producing milk forever once they're impregnated and that if you don't milk them then they become infected and explode.
In actuality, cows produce milk for a set amount of time after impregnated, unlike humans, they have to be milked for that time, and don't continue to produce milk if milked longer than normal.
Because of this cows are impregnated every year, their calves are taken from them, and any males born that are not needed are immediately slaughtered as veal, and the female cows are raised to repeat the cycle of being bred and milked 'til death.
If a cow becomes unable to produce milk it is then slaughtered, even if it is pregnant.
Apparently unborn baby cow blood is valuable in China or something as well.

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Q: Why don't you eat eggs?

A: Battery hens. I don't really have a problem with free range but I find the concept of eggs kinda gross, I know they aren't technically the same as a period, but its close enough to put me off.

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Q: Why don't you eat lollies, jelly, ect (Geletine)

A: Geletine is made of castoffs, its skin, hooves, and such. I appreciate using as many parts of the animal as possible, but its just gross, that stuff thats holding your lollies together used to hold an animal's hoof together.

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God bless,

Asher.

The Question Of Conscience

1 Corinthians 10:25

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience

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One of the things to consider when addressing the morality of vegetarianism/veganism in relation to Christianity is the concept of guilt, as Christians we are free to eat whatever we want free of conscience.

However the bible does condemn ill-treatment of animals 

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Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, 

but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

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While a Christian may well eat without conscience, a Christian is perfectly within rights to disagree with what they deem to be ungodly treatment of animals and for this reason abstain from the fruits of this treatment for this reason.

God bless,

Asher

Ye Of Weak Faith

Romans 14:1-3

Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.

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This is a passage that seemingly claims that vegetarians or vegans are of lesser faith than people who eat meat, and I've met many a Christian who have tried to tell me so.

However, anyone who actually knows anything about this particular passage knows that to claim it has anything to do with the morality of eating meat is to take it completely out of context.

In this passage Paul is speaking to people who were refusing to eat meat that had been sacrificed at alters to other gods, some Christians were able to eat this meat without any fear, while others felt it would be spiritually bad for them and Paul tells both of these types of people not to look down on each other for the choice they have made.

But the idea of whether or not someone should be spiritually allowed to abstain or not from eating meat is not even addressed, suggesting that it was not even an issue for the early church, and thus should not be for the modern church.

Glory to God,

Asher

The Value Of God's Creatures

Genesis 1: 20-21
And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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One of the first things I want to address in this blog is the value God places on animals.
Many Christians I have talked to over the time I have been vegan have said to me that they believe animal's only purpose is to be food for humans, I find many flaws in this ideology, the main one being, that man did not eat meat in the garden of Eden, and will not eat meat in heaven,
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Genesis 1:29-30
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
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Isaiah 11:6

The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.

The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.

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Now if we were not meant to eat animals before the fall, and we are not meant to eat it when we are completed in salvation, this assumes that God created animals with the intention that man should fall. And if God intended for man to fall then there are huge theological implications that tear apart much of Christian belief.

Another point I believe detrimental to this concept is the idea of animal sacrifice. Before Christ came and bore our sin on the cross, the only way to atone for sin was with the blood of an animal, if an animal has no worth in the eyes of God, how then can it be payment for anything?

In Christ,

Asher

Let Them Have Dominion.

Genesis 1:26: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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As I begin writing this blog I want to make two things clear.


1. I do not believe it is a sin to eat meat or animal products.


2. I am not trying to convince anyone else to convert to veganism because of this blog.


The purpose of this blog is to explain my own choices and to help and inform others who have questions on this matter, as I did nearly two years ago when I became a vegan.


I hope my posts on here are both informative and helpful, feel free to ask any questions.


God bless,
Asher.