COVID-19 “You shall not eat any abomination"

[dartmoordog]

[QUOTE="spannulman, post: 1758095, member: 11829"

As for eating old Brock, I know a farmer here in Derbyshire who lived in Devon in the 70s or early 80s and he says there used to be badger hams on the bar in country pubs back then. And apparently it wasn’t bad. I didn’t think it was a wind up for a southerner new to the Peak District but now I think about it.............
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Yep, it was a wind up.

 

[Mossypaw]

What about chickens? They'll eat just about the same things as pigs whether it's dead, alive, fresh or rotten

They're OK, as long as they’re washed with chlorine !

 

[Dickie]

doubt we will ever know the true origin

I think this is the most realistic thing, just like we will never know any true numbers from China, I think it’s the biggest story of all.

 

[hughsurrey]

I think that if you take the god stuff out of the Holy books, you do end up with a story and guidance which is fit for it's time. Like a previous poster said, I too am old enough to remember people cooking pork until you could comfortably use it as a sole for your shoes, but the issue at that time was that we fed pigs with rubbish and waste, which encouraged the presence of bacteria, worms etc., if you feed pork a natural diet the meat does not require the same'death by oven' and with the advent of refrigeration the risk of fish, shell fish, chicken etc is far reduced. So yes, see the written word as guidance, but view it through the paradigm of modern life.

On the religious front, the comment made about the Bible introducing the first laws is somewhat stretching the truth, the Ten Commandments (barring the first four, depending on your version) are the basic rules of living in a society, and to suggest that people only realised that those six actions were bad is, frankly, a nonsense. The proof of that is that there are many social structures around the globe which have not been 'blessed' with religion, yet still respect life, personal property, patriarchal and matriarchal positions in the family etc.

 

[The deer man]

What about mad cow disease, no beef?

 

[TomDeer]

I find the New Testament a gentler read...although, I admit that the ending's a bit scary...

But there's some great stuff in the Old Testament - if my memory of sitting in RE classes as a schoolboy finding the 'juicy' bits serves me right

 

[kes]

" More evil has been done in the name of (organised) religeon than was ever done by man alone ".
I think we all might believe in a superior spirit but my Dad - the day before he died said " There's nothing after", the words of a dying man are usually taken as the truth.

Think your own thoughts but be your own man.

Sorry not intending to lecture or claim special knowledge

 

[Klenchblaize]

[QUOTE="spannulman, post: 1758095, member: 11829"

As for eating old Brock, I know a farmer here in Derbyshire who lived in Devon in the 70s or early 80s and he says there used to be badger hams on the bar in country pubs back then. And apparently it wasn’t bad. I didn’t think it was a wind up for a southerner new to the Peak District but now I think about it.............

Yep, it was a wind up.
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Give me a pint of foaming Kent ale and toast wiped with beef dripping at Noon on any day of the week other than Friday and leave your RTA-mangled Badger ham in the gutter please.

Badgers are only good for a wet shave and should not be confused with Christmas!

K

 

[jimo]

What about mad cow disease, no beef?

That was caused by feeding animal products to ruminants. I’m sure I heard somewhere that something similar occurred in canablistic tribes. Maybe the Bible should have included don’t eat one another!

 

[EMcC]

leave your RTA-mangled Badger ham in the gutter please. Badgers are only good for a wet shave and should not be confused with Christmas!

Back in the late fifties and early sixties Badger was eaten on Elizabethan Nights in a pub at East Coker. The landlords name was, coincidentally, Fox.
The badger was not road kill but either snared or smoked out of it's sett and shot.
Some time early sixties a Sunday newspaper did an article on a badger feast that took place and put it down to Black Magic and witchcraft - or tried to.
I supplied a snared Badger to the pub for a £1 and sold the skin for 30/- I could always guarantee catching one any time I wanted, mind you if you didn't have a stout stump to fix the snare to, you needed a long pole driven well down and when you came back in the morning you had to bring a spade to fill the hole that it had dug going round and round the pole/stump.
Even when the Pub didn't have a Badger night the skins were a good source of income for a young lad like me

 

[spannulman]

[QUOTE="spannulman, post: 1758095, member: 11829"

As for eating old Brock, I know a farmer here in Derbyshire who lived in Devon in the 70s or early 80s and he says there used to be badger hams on the bar in country pubs back then. And apparently it wasn’t bad. I didn’t think it was a wind up for a southerner new to the Peak District but now I think about it.............

Yep, it was a wind up.
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say it ain’t so Dartmoor dog. don’t I feel silly now

 

[paul o']

I am sorry if this offends and this is my spine on any kind of Religion ,its a crock of crap ,I and mine were bashed all though my childhood in the name of God by a catlick M'F wife beating priest Sundays you could drink his **** or thats what others felt they could do after another load of utter BS , Why would any one allow his children to starve around the world , death from war's , no rain and Animals waist away to dust , crops to fail , and all for what ? in his name !! yeh right NO RELIGION would = no wars fact history has told us one thing and its this be a sheep your get slaughtered . Onward Christian soldiers we know how that ended .
No super wealthy religious Orgs were harmed by my Rant but on Sunday there Wealth will grow but the man sleeping on the streets won't.

 

[CarlW]

I am sorry if this offends and this is my spine on any kind of Religion ,its a crock of crap ,I and mine were bashed all though my childhood in the name of God by a catlick M'F wife beating priest Sundays you could drink his **** or thats what others felt they could do after another load of utter BS , Why would any one allow his children to starve around the world , death from war's , no rain and Animals waist away to dust , crops to fail , and all for what ? in his name !! yeh right NO RELIGION would = no wars fact history has told us one thing and its this be a sheep your get slaughtered . Onward Christian soldiers we know how that ended .
No super wealthy religious Orgs were harmed by my Rant but on Sunday there Wealth will grow but the man sleeping on the streets won't.

Is it fair to say that you're currently undecided as far as religion goes, Paul?

 

[enfieldspares]

When I take my clients around Paris I show them the bronze statue in front of the Sorbonne of Michel de Montaigne, and his declaration that (variously quoted) "Everywhere man will create himself Gods. Yet he cannot even make a worm." But that does not invalidate the fact that a lot of the guidance or codes of living written in the books of many religions is based on sound good sense.

 

[Stalker62]

I am sorry if this offends...

Not in the least old son, not in the least.

It is my view (my view) that man invented God and not that God invented man.

The problem being that so many men invented so many Gods and who's God is the best?

Have seen enough of life to know that if there is an omnipotent God then; he/she/they/non-fing-binary is one evil c**t.

 

[Jagare]

Last Sunday night i sat out till after 2.00 Monday morning and shot a 50kg abomination. Today i skinned and butchered said abomination and tomorrow i will put a bit of the last one i shot in the slow cooker. Egg and bacon for breakfast tomorrow. I may sit out again tomorrow night and try and shoot another one.

 

[Odders]

Because the bible is fiction

Neil.

Except it mostly isn't.
It's a record of events which has been distorted over several millennia, to which has been attached various interpretations of a religious nature.
I'm quite OK with winnowing out the latter to better understand both my own personal faith & the historical base upon which I've constructed it.

Officially sanctioned religion?

Meh.

 

[Pedro]

Well we've had many a pointless argument about Brexit and Scottish independence and the recent general election. But we seem to have exhausted politics for the time being. Oh, I know, let's start on religion.

I have my own beliefs and they will coincide with some and not with others. But I'll keep them to myself, thanks. I shall amuse myself in social isolation/lockdown with other things. Maybe do a bit of reloading, that bit of gardening I've saved for a rainy day (metaphorically speaking) or the Airfix Spitfire my grandson bought me one recent Christmas might even get done. I've got a couple of pairs of boots that need cleaning and I'll put a coat or two of something on them. It is, of course quite exciting tomorrow morning because it's recycling day. Having done the weekly shop, that's a bit far off, but I can look forward to that. But no. Going on a forum to discuss religion? Not me.

 

[Fadcode]

One mans meat, is another mans poison,.
Judge your fellow man not by his beliefs but by his nature.

 

[shakey jake]

i dont think this current situation has any link to eating animals, the issue i think is keeping animals alive next to the butcher and cook and salad bar, its basic food hygiene, wash your hands after handling raw meat, different boards for raw and cooked. the bible rules on food were because people werent taught or didnt understand about bacteria. if the animal is not on a list of endangered animal i dont see the problem with eating anything, kill it quickly and humanely, i dont get why rabbit is fine but cat isnt or pig but not donkey.