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The Christian Vegan

6/10/2017

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 Recently, James Aspey, world renowned vegan and animal rights activist, got into a heated discussion with a Christian man while James was speaking at an event. The whole argument that the man kept trying to make was that animals were created for his use. Often times when James presented the man with a sound response, the man would change his own argument, agree with James on many points, and then go right back to saying animals were created for his needs and nourishment. The whole exchange was interesting to me because I am a Christian, and I totally disagree with the man for several reasons.
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 Humans DO Not Need Animals for Nourishment

Everything we need, including protein, can be achieved by eating a plant based diet. There have been countless studies that show that by adopting a plant based diet people live longer, are healthier, happier, and less disease stricken. Research published by The National Center for Biotechnology concluded that "vegan diets seem to provide some added protection against obesity, hypertension, type-2 diabetes; and cardiovascular mortality." 
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In the Beginning

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food. And it was so." Genesis 1: 29-30 (NIV). 

When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, God commanded that they eat seeded fruit and green plants. Those were His words.


To me, this says that this was God's original design, but after the fall of man, death and destruction became part of the natural life cycle. Predators killed prey, and the life of one living thing depended on the death of another. I believe veganism is closer to God's original plan and design.
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Factory Farming and Slaughterhouses

It seems like every day there are countless stories, images, and articles about animal abuse and torture. Whistleblowers often record first hand accounts of the relentless abuse that animals endure for the sake of being food for humans. In a recent Compassion Over Killing (COK) undercover investigation at Mason Dixon Farms, gentle mother cows were violently abused.

Uncover footages shows: cows being kicked in the face, punched in their udders, continuously shocked with an electric prod, jabbed with pens and elbows, and having their tails painfully twisted or bent by workers. Because of their hazardous living conditions, they were also repeatedly getting stuck on water troughs or inside stalls.


People can continue to make the argument of "animals were put here for our use" all they want, but use does not equal abuse. I think it is great when I see seeing eye dogs being eyes for their owners, or pets providing therapy and making people's lives better by bringing happiness and joy to families. 

I certainly don't think the God whom I love and in whom I believe, the God of love and compassion, is pleased with animal cruelty, slaughterhouses, or factory farming where these types of atrocities occur every day behind closed doors. These animals are living, breathing creatures with feelings and emotions. They experience joy and pain. They have families, but sadly often times they don't have a voice.  

"The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel." Proverb 12:10 (NIV)

Please share your views below! 

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Troy Garner
5/7/2018 01:02:49 pm

You’ve got the right perspective regarding Christianity and veganism. My wife and I are vegan as of 2 1/2 years ago. First was for our health, then the issue of animal cruelty came to light. There is such an opportunity for Christians to bring Christ to the vegan community. For the most part, the vegan community is very spiritual.. Of course that’s not going to get them to heaven. They have compassion for animals but at the same time, many times, place them above their own lives. Again, thank you for your thoughts. I just read where Franklin Graham became vegan as of the end of 2017! That’s incredible. All for God’s glory.

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The Sensible Vegan
5/8/2018 03:31:15 pm

That is wonderful. Thank you for sharing this. I totally agree with you. I did not know that about Franklin Graham. That's incredible!

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Raychel link
1/16/2019 08:31:55 pm

I love this. Very well put, thank you. I am a whole food vegan Christian and I love seeing this information being shared.

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Oldand Dilis link
8/12/2020 06:56:19 am


Dear fellow vegans,
We know that our anatomy is designed for a frugivore/plant diet but so is our mind. I am writing asking that you either cover the subject of the letter I send in your printed or online articles and/or pass it to other vegan physicists. I would also love some feedback on terminology or technical aspects where I may have mistakes.

I am a theorist who solved the double slit experiment of quantum physics with evidence and further experiments to prove it. With this I unlocked and revealed the Theory of Everything that physicists have been searching for 100 years for and whom many (including athiest meat eating celebrities like Stephen Hawking and Nobel prize winners) gave up on and said could likely never be done. I have done it. Unfortunately everyone seems to be having problems accepting it despite the fact it is evidence based. The fact it is evidence based but no one will look at the evidence suggests there is resistance or mental blocks with people. It essentially provides overwhelming evidence for the soul and a higher Universal/omnipresent intelligence "God".
We know the atheist movement is very dominant in the modern scientific community, also that the human eye has 6 layers in the cornea able to see a huge range of colours but carnivorous and omnivorous animals only have 4 and see fewer colours. I suspect that as most scientists like the general population are omnivorous they are failing to use areas of the brain accessible to vegans, I go further I am fruitarian eating only fruits and grains/grass fruit (pasta, rice, maize etc). So I am asking that you make this important information available to your members in the hope someone in a position of influence has access to areas of their minds that people who eat animal foods don't and access to influential media so the scientific community learns that this scientific breakthrough has happened. Then we can begin using this information in the fight to end the senseless murder and fueling of human minds with the wrong fuels, reversing habitat destruction and bringing common sense back into mainstream consciousness.
The Theory is available open source on

https://doubleslitsolution.weebly.com/springtimetheory.html

Sincerely

Oldand

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