Animals, Food, Etc.

How are we supposed to treat our animals, both our pets, and also those animals set aside for human consumption?

In many ways, this type of argument is something that 'transcends' normal political boundaries.

Gandhi, neither liberal nor conservative and a Hindu-Jain admirer of Jesus of Nazareth (i.e. teachings on non-violence), stated (paraphrase) that the strength of a nation is determined by how well it treats its animals!

In many ways, our Nation State is especially blessed!

We bless each other at Christmas with gifts.

We have a strong human rights tradition as grounded in Natural Rights political theory.

We have freedom of press, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech!

BUT, with all of our freedoms, has also come license. License means that when faced with an 'unwanted pregnancy' we (as an American people group . . .) 'choose' to terminate 'our' pregnancies . . . Roe v. Wade = genocide and millions of babies have been slaughtered since 1973 as a result!

Maybe this carnage is conceptually linked with our treatment of creation in general!

For the sake of convenience we pump our chickens full of growth hormones, store them in unsanitary living conditions called 'chicken houses,' and then slaughter them. Truly, killing animals for food is permissible in both the Old Covenant of Moses, and in the New Covenant of Christ Jesus, but not through means that are cruel and inhumane.

At one point we were an agriculturally-based society, and 'modern mechanized farming' did not yet exist.

Now, animals once roaming free on the small-scale farms, are now chained up, couped up, all in the interests of capitalistic efficiency!

And the same with Roe v. Wade.

Once babies were protected by LAW! Now, abortion is a means of birth control! Don't want a baby, then just throw it in the trash! ALL legal, and all due to the errant views of rogue justices!

Now, as Gandhi saw, the carnage of agriculture has led to the debasement at a collective level!

We slaughter our own children just as mercilessly as we chain animals to cages and pump them full of steroids!

ALL the very best in Christ Jesus,
Rob J. King,
son of a farming family who loved & respected the animals they ate . . . (ALSO, a survivor of the Abortion Holocaust!)