After watching this video and an article related to it, found here, for the most part I am saying, "So what?" Whenever one watches a documentary on some native tribe somewhere in the world, they are praised for using the whole animal, nothing goes to waste. Are we getting a conflicting message here?
What does the bible say? After all have I not charged that we should follow God's design.
So we go to Genesis where God first allowed the eating of meat, let's take a look:
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 9:3-5 (emphasis mine)
We see here in the original command allowing the eating of meat, that only the blood is forbidden. Does the bible have anything else to say? Yes, it does. Look at Acts 15:20
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
As far as food is concerned we have two things to watch for, and they are related, to avoid things that were strangled and again from blood, for if it were strangled, the blood has not been drained.
So is there an issue here? I would say no.
Is this pink slime kosher(does it follow God's dietary laws for the Jew)? No, but that is a different issue.
Should we expect labeling? Yes, this should be done, "Truth in advertising" and all that.
To God Be the Glory
Scott
Labeling is not the only thing that needs to be done. We need to encourage our media to report all of these unnatural and unsafe behaviors and make it known what these slaughter houses and processing plants are doing. We must expect more from our officials at the FDA and our government. They keep preaching we the American consumers are not feeding our children nutritious food; and yet right under our noses, they are doing what they do best, which is: "what is good for some; is not good for all."
ReplyDeleteCarol, in the film "pink slime" the only thing that I saw as questionable was the poison wash that was used to clean the meat of the bacteria. Is this an issue, maybe, but labeling in this case would cover it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, but as to this specific topic, pink slime, Is there really an issue? It's probably better and safer than hot dogs.