Season 4. Ep 93. Animals, Catholicism & Veganism, Food Series #5

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This episode continues the series on food by exploring animals as food, humans as omnivores, bioavailability of protein and fat, veganism, animal agriculture, and fear based dietary restriction.

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Food Series

#1 - “Modern Science & Holiness” - https://www.becominggift.com/post/modern-science-holiness-physically-spiritual-87

#2 - “What Is Food?” - https://www.becominggift.com/post/what-is-food-physically-spiritual-88

#3 - “ Soil” -https://www.becominggift.com/post/soil-microorganisms-humanity-divine-life-physically-spiritual-90

#4 - “Plants” - https://www.becominggift.com/post/plants

The Great Chain of Being - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being#Animals

Humans Are Omnivores - https://www.biologyonline.com/articles/humans-omnivores

The Agricultural Revolution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution#Domestication_of_animals

Ruminants - https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/dairy/2016/12/12/ruminants-important-world-might-thought/

Bioavailability of Protein - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905294/

Essential Fatty Acids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid & https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/other-nutrients/essential-fatty-acids

Conversion of AL & ALA to DHA & EPA - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17622276/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3224740/, & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4237475/

“God also said: See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food;” Genesis 1: 29 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/1

“Any living creature that moves about shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. Only meat with its lifeblood still in it you shall not eat. Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.” Genesis 9: 3 - 5 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/9

Blood in the Hebrew Scriptures - https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0148.xml

“It is not what enters one’s mouth that defiles that person; but what comes out of the mouth is what defiles one.” - Matthew 15: 11 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5

“The next day, while they were on their way and nearing the city, Peter went up to the roof terrace to pray at about noontime. He was hungry and wished to eat, and while they were making preparations he fell into a trance.  He saw heaven opened and something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered to the ground by its four corners.  In it were all the earth’s four-legged animals and reptiles and the birds of the sky. A voice said to him, “Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.”But Peter said, “Certainly not, sir. For never have I eaten anything profane and unclean.”  The voice spoke to him again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”  This happened three times, and then the object was taken up into the sky.”  Acts 10: 9 - 16 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/10

“‘It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities, namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.’” Acts 15: 28 - 29 - https://bible.usccb.org/bible/acts/

Cantate Domino, Council of Florence, Pope Eugene IV - DS 713, Thus it declares that the nature of no food, which society admits, is to be condemned, and no distinction is to be made by anyone at all, whether man or woman, between animals, and by whatever kind of death they meet their end; although for the health of body, for the exercise of virtue, for regular and ecclesiastical discipline many things not denied should be given up, since, according to the Apostle, "all things are lawful, but all things are not expedient" [1 Cor.. 6:12; 10:22].

COUNCIL OF TOLEDO, DS 37  [17. If anyone says or believes that the flesh of birds or of animals, which has been given for food, not only ought to be abstained from for the chastising of the body, but ought to be abhorred, let him be anathema.]

Council of Braga,  DS 244  14. If anyone considers the foods of the flesh unclean, which God has given for the use of men; and, not for the affliction of his body, but as if he thought it unclean, so abstains from these that he does not taste vegetables cooked with meats, just as Manichaeus and Priscillian have said, let him be anathema.

Time Stamps

0:45 The Great Chain of Being

2:45 The Domestication of Animals for Food

7:45 Ruminants

13:45 Animals as Food

18:45 Animal Consumption in the Scripture

24:30 Meat Consumption & Church Teaching

29:00. The Danger of Unnecessary Restriction