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Quote by Henry David Thoreau

What is the Daniel Fast?

Genesis 1:29

Noah and his family were vegetarian

After the flood, Noah was permitted to eat meat

Noah’s Ark Buffet sources meat from Sysco Foods

99% of all animals for food are factory farmed

Major world religion comparison chart, 2.3 billion Christians worldwide

65% of the country is Christian

88% of Congress is Christian

Every U.S. President in history was either a Christian or believed in God

Buddhism says to not kill any sentient being

The Dalai Lama eats meat

Josephus writings on Jesus

Jerusalem temple sacrifice

Jesus cleanses the temple of those who “buy and sell”

The temple cleanse precipitated Jesus’s trial and execution

In the temple, animals were being bought and sold for sacrifice

Josephus describes “an enormous slaughtering operation”

The Talmud describes “1.2 million sacrifices in one day”

The Talmud describes “Priests wading up to their knees in blood”

Scriptures say all the blood was drained in the channel from animal sacrifice

Next to the temple, archaeologists recently found thousands of animal bones that came from hundreds of miles away

Animal flesh was the major driver of the economy in Jerusalem

Sacrifice animals were barbecued on the altar and sold by priests for meat

Soon, the Temple Institute is planning to sacrifice a prophetic red cow to bring back the millions of Jewish animal sacrifices in the Temple

Prehistoric societies saw animals as ancestors of the tribe

When the first humans learned to domesticate animals, anywhere from six to eight thousand B.C., they were no longer seen as sacred

There was a transition point were animals were considered sacred and could not be killed outright, but were killed for sacrificial purposes

Animals were the first form of money

Origin of the word capital

Origin of the word pecuniary

Cost of USDA organic certification

Kosher certification cost

Kosher market size

Halal market size

Josephus does not record Nazareth and the Encyclopedia Biblica says it is doubtful that Nazareth was really the dwelling-place of Jesus

Nazareth is not recorded in the Old Testament or the Talmud

Nazareth is not recorded in any historical map or record until 200 years after Jesus’s death

The President of the Southern Baptist Convention has ties to Chick-fil-A and Tyson Foods

Dominion definition

During Bhudda’s time, Hindu Bramans were sacrificing animals like the Priests were during Jesus’s time

In some traditions, to save the animals, Buddha offered his own life instead

Cows are artificially inseminated, taken away from their newborns, injected with oxytocin, and more. Then, sent to slaughter after they are done producing milk.

India is the biggest exporter of beef

Dairy cows end up as leather

Leather production in India

Leather chemicals go into the rivers, particularly the Ganges River

Hindu scriptures do not encourage consuming dairy

The Quran says that humans are the guardian of the planet

The Prophet Mohammed was appalled with animal sacrifice

Dalai Lama says it is “Alright to have meat of dead animals, not those slaughtered”

Holocaust word origin

The altar ritual developed into the system of spiritually raising and killing animals for food, known as Kosher

Slaughterhouse worker sourcing, pay, forced labor, and mental health issues

The model for slavery begins with animal domesticators

Lifespan of a pig

Other animals are killed in free range farming

Rainforest are being cleared for meat production

Every second, an acre of rainforest is cleared, partly for grass fed beef, but mainly to grow soy, to feed livestock around the world

Rainforest destruction is forcing Indigenous tribes to become homeless

Hunting in primitive societies fostered tools and technology, and the development of weapons

Herding animals was a direct cause of the first wars

Definition of war

“The sect of Nasareans was before Christ” Epiphanius 29,6

The Nasarean movement would not sacrifice animals or eat meat. They applied “Thou shalt not kill” to animals.

John the Baptist was vegetarian

Matthew is recorded as being a vegetarian

Peter is recorded as being a vegetarian

Jesus taught the Nasareans to not eat meat

The earliest references describe the feeding of the 5,000 as the miracle of the loaves, without referencing the fish

The Greek word “Ichthus” is a secret symbol for Jesus

Prosphagion Definition

Jesus helps his disciples catch 153 fish. But then, tells them to follow him and become fishers of men instead. John 21:1-14

Pythagoras wages a bet to release fish, and is successful

153 is the ratio height of the vesica pisces

The vesica pisces was originated by Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a lifelong vegetarian and against animal sacrifice

The Yoga Yamas

Christian, Islamic, and Hebrew commandments

Number of turkeys killed for Thanksgiving

The US consumes nearly 16 million pigs per year for Christmas.

Red Heifer prophecy caused conflict in the Holy Land

Definition of “Parits”

Jesus rejected eating meat at Passover

Jesus came to destroy sacrifices

Jesus said: “This is my flesh…this is my blood” Mark 14:22-24

Paul was anti-vegetarian, and encouraged converts to eat meat 1 Corinthians 10:25 Romans 14

James did not eat meat

James was head of the Jerusalem Church

James is called the pillar of the Church

Paul beat James, throwing him down the temple steps, which eventually led to a mob of Priests stoning him to death

Many were forced by Roman soldiers to eat meat, and if they refused, they were killed

The Church amplified Paul’s pro-meat writings, burning the books that did not align

“I have no desire to eat meat with you this Passover”

The Gospel of the Ebionites was actively suppressed by the Church

Eventually, the remaining Nasarean movement was killed over the argument of the consumption of animals

The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep John 10:11

Vegans have constantly a higher engagement of empathy related areas (in the brain)

The happiest human on earth is vegan

When Leonardo DaVinci started making money, he bought chickens from the market and released them

The Holy Land now has one of the highest vegans per capita in the world

The first fully vegan hospital is in the Holy Land

Origin of Tevoni