Sakna dýrin okkar?

Biblían fjallar ekki um það en kona að nafni Ellen White sem ég trúi að var spámaður sem Guð sendi fyrir okkar tíma sagði þetta um þetta efni:

The Ministry of Healing, pgs. 315, 316
The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them

Aðeins dýraeigendur skilja hversu mikið þessir ferfætlingar geta þýtt fyrir þá sem eiga þá. Sérstaklega þá sem eru einmanna. Eitthvað sem ég sé mikið af hérna í Englandi þar sem það er frekar algengt að heimilislausir hafa hunda með sér og svo sér maður þau kúra saman þegar það er kalt. Ég hef svo mikla andúð á þeim sem geta ekki sýnt öðru fólki skilning í þessum málum.

Fleiri tilvitnanir er snerta þessa dýrmætu vini okkar sem því miður samfélagið fer ekki vel með.

"Animals are becoming more diseased and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat." (1902)

"Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation of man." (1903)

"Animals are often transported long distances and subjected to great suffering in reaching a market. Taken from the green pastures and traveling for weary miles over the hot, dusty roads, or crowded into filthy cars, feverish and exhausted, often for many hours deprived of food and water, the poor creatures are driven to their death, that human beings may feast on the carcasses." (1905)

"It is a mistake to suppose that muscular strength depends on the use of animal food. The needs of the system can be better supplied, and more vigorous health can be enjoyed, without its use. The grains, with fruits, nuts, and vegetables, contain all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood. These elements are not so well or so fully supplied by a flesh diet. Had the use of flesh been essential to health and strength, animal food would have been included in the diet appointed man in the beginning." (1905)

"Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and the vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct by eating the food that God provided for our use!" (1905)

"What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full of confidence and affection, and willingly give them over to the butcher's knife? How could he devour their flesh as a sweet morsel?"
- The Ministry of Healing

 

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Athugasemdir

[Gunnlaugur Hólm Sigurðsson, 26.7.2015 kl. 05:22]

Ef þú trúir á eftir líf! Já þá bíða þau eftir þér. En ef þú túlkar hver á rétt til að vera til sem guðleg vera eftir gömlu handriti þá veit ég ekki! Ég held að þegar maður fer þá fer maður til Alheimsins og allir bíða eftir manni, og þeir sem "trúa" of bókstaflega eru látnir sofa það úr sér um aldir ef þarf.

[Mofi, 30.7.2015 kl. 09:16]

Ég sé höfunda þessa gamla handrits sem mest áreiðanlegustu sem ég veit um, allt annað sem ég hef séð hefur lyktað illa og haft lítið sem ekkert til að styðja það.