http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:08:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-143 Edith Stevenson Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:48:51 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-143 Well, I used to really like cream filled chocolate eclairs and potato chips too. But with new knowledge, I have chosen to make choices about not only what goes onto my hips, but also how the food I put in my mouth was prepared, where it came from, and whether I want to support the company that makes it. Easy decision. And like it used to be with some foods from around the globe, if they are not as readily available, then they are more special - having a hamburger could be seen as a real treat! I remember a time when the only way you would eat a fresh pineapple was when someone carried one home from a holiday in Hawaii! Well, I used to really like cream filled chocolate eclairs and potato chips too. But with new knowledge, I have chosen to make choices about not only what goes onto my hips, but also how the food I put in my mouth was prepared, where it came from, and whether I want to support the company that makes it. Easy decision. And like it used to be with some foods from around the globe, if they are not as readily available, then they are more special - having a hamburger could be seen as a real treat! I remember a time when the only way you would eat a fresh pineapple was when someone carried one home from a holiday in Hawaii!

]]> http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-142 Anna Stevenson Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:29:01 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-142 ...but what if I LIKE eating meat?! …but what if I LIKE eating meat?!

]]> http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-141 Edith Stevenson Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:25:21 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/now-hear-this/#comment-141 Well articulated, Anna and Nigel! Seems to me as well, a connection that makes so much sense, Jewishly, is our awareness of Tikkun Olam - isn't it a bit contradictory, when the scientific facts are out there for all to know, that Jews can merrily go along and insist on their Kosher-slaughtered steaks, that travelled 3000 miles from the potentially hormone fed crammed into tight spaces life / death to our local Kosher meat shop. The cost to the earth of sustaining a meat based diet, even a humanely slaughtered one, as opposed to a vegetarian diet is well documented. It seems to say we are okay with upholding one commandment at the potentially very damaging risk of ignoring another. There are so many ways we Jews can connect to centuries of ancestors, and their customs. What would be wrong with starting a new tradition, that hundreds of years from now, Jews the world over would proudly feel the link to the past! After all, we did stop owning slaves, and having multiple wives quite a while back. Well articulated, Anna and Nigel! Seems to me as well, a connection that makes so much sense, Jewishly, is our awareness of Tikkun Olam - isn’t it a bit contradictory, when the scientific facts are out there for all to know, that Jews can merrily go along and insist on their Kosher-slaughtered steaks, that travelled 3000 miles from the potentially hormone fed crammed into tight spaces life / death to our local Kosher meat shop. The cost to the earth of sustaining a meat based diet, even a humanely slaughtered one, as opposed to a vegetarian diet is well documented. It seems to say we are okay with upholding one commandment at the potentially very damaging risk of ignoring another. There are so many ways we Jews can connect to centuries of ancestors, and their customs. What would be wrong with starting a new tradition, that hundreds of years from now, Jews the world over would proudly feel the link to the past! After all, we did stop owning slaves, and having multiple wives quite a while back.

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