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In the book of Romans, the Apostle Paul writes:“One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith isweak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat withcontempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.”
In making this argument, Paul was trying to hold his church community together, in spite of all the efforts being made to divide his community. One of the most effective ways to divide people is to get them to disagree on the proper way to eat. As evidenced by Paul’s pleading, the strategy has worked for thousands of years, and is still working today.
One should be able to tell which is the most intelligent way to eat by considering the needs of one’s body, the content of food and the consequence to the environment of producing that food. Let’s give it a try:
Leave a comment below: Which is best: carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Michael Olson’s Three Laws of the Food Chain
#1 Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles.
#2 The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in that food.
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