Honoring God by Honoring Our Bodies
May 21, 2012
Welcome to the weekly CVA blog! In it you will find famous
quotes, news and commentaries.
- Why Do Some People Go Back to Eating Animals?
Quote: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Newsweek interview (October 16, 1978)
after winning the Nobel Prize in literature
- Pink Slime and Mad
Cow Disease in a Nutshell
- Bible verse: 1 Corinthians 4:2
- Olympic Athletes Turn Vegetarian
- This Week’s Video: Dr.
1. Why Do Some People Go Back to Eating Animals?
Sanctuary's Compassionate Community Campaigns addresses the many
reasons why former vegan and vegetarians decide to go back to
meat-eating. The reasons are varied but in general they can be rounded
down to: taste, health, inconvenience, motivation, identity, the
switch and support. This article sheds light into these reasons and
gives us tips on how to help vegan and vegetarians to stay on track.
Former vegetarians: who they are and why we lost them:
believe that if we realize that we are ultimately all connected
through God's essence of love, we would find it very hard to go back
to our old ways of causing much suffering to other beings by eating
2. This Week’s Famous Quote
“The same questions
are bothering me today as they did fifty years ago. Why is one born?
Why does one suffer? In my case, the suffering of animals also makes
me very sad. I’m a vegetarian, you know. When I see how little
attention people pay to animals, and how easily they make peace with
man being allowed to do with animals whatever he wants because he
keeps a knife or a gun, it gives me a feeling of misery and sometimes
anger with the Almighty. I say ‘Do you need your glory to be connected
with so much suffering of creatures without glory, just innocent
creatures who would like to pass a few years in peace?’ I feel that
animals are as bewildered as we are except that they have no words for
it. I would say that all life is asking: ‘What am I doing here?’”
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Newsweek interview (October 16, 1978) after
winning the Nobel Prize in literature
3. Pink Slime and Mad
Cow Disease in a Nutshell
John Robbins, best-seller and author
of "Diet for a New America, wrote an excellent piece about pink slime
and Mad Cow Disease. Robbins lifts up the curtain behind which factory
farms hide and exposes their rotten business that not only does it put
people's lives are risk but that also deceives the public in ways that
are actually amazingly hard to image.
Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease: Coming to a Burger Near You:
Factory farming is an industry driven by greed, apathy toward sentient
beings, power, merciless, fear and deceit. Otherwise, how else does it
stay in business? Fortunately, the truth always is known, soon or
later, and it seems that the time has come for the animal agriculture
industry. I hope that Christians become the leaders of the movement
that chooses compassion, joy, celebration and love: the vegan
4. This Week’s Bible Verse
Moreover it is required of stewards that
they be found trustworthy.
Are we being trustworthy stewards
of God’s Creation by causing environmental devastation on Earth as
well as so much pain, misery and death to our fellow beings? I think
it’s time to assume our roles as stewards of God’s Creation in a
loving, joyful and responsible way. That is, taking care of the Earth
and its inhabitants as if it were God doing it: lovingly, joyfully and
5. Olympic Athletes Turn Vegetarian
Seemingly, beef is not healthy for Chinese Olympic athletes because it
might contain clenbuterol or ractopamine, used to make beef leaner.
The fear is that these substances might get athletes disqualified by
the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Yang Hongbo, head of catering for
700 high-performance athletes at the Jiangsu Sports Training Centre
said, “No company dares to sign a contract promising their meat does
not contain clenbuterol or ractopamine.”
Chinese athletes turn vegetarian ahead of Olympics:
Surely, beef might contain lots of additives that are very harmful for
our health. But it is also laden with saturated fat and cholesterol,
both unhealthy for our bodies. And as if all this weren't enough, beef
is tainted with suffering, pain and death. The flesh of God's animals
on our plates only causes devastation: spiritual, environmental,
physical, psychological and even sociological. Those who truly want to
be good stewards of God's Creation should not support or tolerate the
animal agriculture industry.
6. This Week’s Video: Dr.
Dr. John McDougall began his medical career as a
plantation doctor for Dole Foods in Hawaii, almost 40 years ago. There
he saw generations of families who had emigrated mostly from Asia to
work in the sugar fields. He noticed the older workers were in better
health than each subsequent generation. Dr. McDougall discovered that
it was the type of food they ate that accounted for the quality of
each generation's health.
He describes the devastating effects of the standard American diet
in this short excerpt from the award-winning documentary, Processed
People: How I Learned Diet Kills and Cures -- Dr. McDougall (VIDEO):
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