"Meat and Evil"

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 19:41:24 | Updated at 2025-01-13 00:02:02 5 days ago

"Meat and Evil"
Philspapers ^ | 2019 | Matthew C. Halteman

Posted on 01/07/2025 11:12:57 AM PST by DallasBiff

In a world where meat is often a token of comfort, health, hospitality, and abundance, one can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the conjunction “meat and evil.” Why pull meat into the orbit of harm, pestilence, ill-will, and privation? From another perspective, the answer is obvious: meat—the flesh of slaughtered animals taken for food—is the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature, violent, and often gratuitous. The truth is that meat has a checkered history in the West. From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world, meat is well-marbled with evil and its minions: sin, violence, injustice, destruction, suffering, and death. Beyond keeping company with these obtrusive forms of evil, meat’s success at remaining, nevertheless, in our collective good graces illuminates some of evil’s subtler shades too. We might learn something of insidiousness, self-deception, rationalization, and bad faith by exploring why the ever-strengthening consensus that habitual meat-eating is unhealthful, morally dubious, and environmentally damaging is often still no match for a philosopher’s savor of cheeseburgers. My aim is to consider meat’s fitness for a place in the Western history of evil by reflecting briefly on its outsized roles at the bookends of this narrative: meat’s primeval history in Genesis, and its contribution today to ethical and environmental problems of arguably apocalyptic proportions.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: 01absurdbs; beef; liberals; meat

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The liberals hate meat.

1 posted on 01/07/2025 11:12:57 AM PST by DallasBiff

To: DallasBiff

How much of my paycheck is taken to support this wanker?

2 posted on 01/07/2025 11:17:20 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

To: DallasBiff

"The liberals hate meat."

Well, I heard liberals taste just like chicken..

3 posted on 01/07/2025 11:18:01 AM PST by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)

To: DallasBiff

Indicting Judaism and Capitalism in a sentence fragment:

“From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world”

4 posted on 01/07/2025 11:21:17 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (muslims ARE INBRED IGNORAMUSES. See my "About" page for proof.)

To: DallasBiff

the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature

In areas uninhabited by people, what constitutes “premature” death for deer, mice and rabbits? They do not tend to die of old age surrounded in their den by generations of offspring.

5 posted on 01/07/2025 11:21:20 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))

To: Uncle Miltie

Atheism and communism have such a superior record!

6 posted on 01/07/2025 11:21:47 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (muslims ARE INBRED IGNORAMUSES. See my "About" page for proof.)

To: DallasBiff

God says it’s okay in the Deuteronomy food laws. Who cares what likely perverts say.

7 posted on 01/07/2025 11:22:51 AM PST by Karl Spooner

To: DallasBiff

“..The liberals hate meat....”

Except when it’s stuck where the sun don’t shine. Then, they seemed to like it just fine...and like it a lot. Just ask their mighty demi-god, odongo!!!

8 posted on 01/07/2025 11:22:57 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )

To: DallasBiff

After sin came into the world, who was the first one on record to kill an animal for man’s sake?

God (Genesis 3:21).

Blood and death is the consequence of sin and Jesus took that consequence for us. Animals are collateral damage.

The Left, run by the spirit of antichrist, wants nothing to do with the truth, sin and its consequences, or redemption by the blood of the Lamb.

9 posted on 01/07/2025 11:24:19 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)

To: DallasBiff

You can bet the guy loves abortion.

10 posted on 01/07/2025 11:25:25 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: DallasBiff

If there’s one thing that Christianity Islam, and Judsism agree upon, it’s that eating meat is OK.

11 posted on 01/07/2025 11:25:39 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)

To: DallasBiff

As my 7th grade science teacher said: Go to a mirror, look at yourself, open your mouth and look at your teeth. You have two different kinds of teeth...one set for EATING MEAT and another set for eating other things. Human beings are designed to be OMNIVORES!

Ergo, we should "trust science", as well as believing in GOD's design.

12 posted on 01/07/2025 11:25:54 AM PST by nopardons

To: DallasBiff

Col 2:16, 17

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

Col 2:20, 21

Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”

13 posted on 01/07/2025 11:29:27 AM PST by dadfly

To: grey_whiskers

"How much of my paycheck is taken to support this wanker?"

Simple answer. Too much.

14 posted on 01/07/2025 11:33:55 AM PST by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)

To: DallasBiff

Absolute Bullshit. The hierarchy of life on this Rock dictates subsistence to maintain life. Humans are at the top of that subsistence (food chain) and it progresses down throughout all species, even herbivores. This is known and taught in grammar school. It is basic biology. Sheesh, there's always someone who thinks they have a new philosophy.

Think I'll have a tri-tip for dinner. Too bad you were a cow.

15 posted on 01/07/2025 11:34:18 AM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )

To: DallasBiff

16 posted on 01/07/2025 11:38:57 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)

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