The church prohibits the eating of meat from warm blooded animals on a Friday as a nod to the sacrifice Christ made on Good Friday. Fish are exempt because they are warm blooded. Also exempt were puffins for some reason. The law was relaxed by Pope Paul VI in the '60s so long as you sacrifice something else. The law does still apply on Fridays during lent.
Listening to the Pope is where people started to go wrong. I'm glad I wasn't raised religious as it just seems wrong and messed up. It's all a lie and a mockery against all that we hold dear and know to be true; life after death, virgin birth; We know these are lies. The church is basically asking people to believe in lies to submit to their doctrine to keep people in line to serve the church. If you're so inclined to believe in such fundamental lies that go against nature, then the church has you, that's all it is. It's like, if I was raised religious, I might go around thinking fish isn't a meat lol.
Opium of the masses, invented to keep us docile and under control. Them medieval cathedrals sure are pretty though.
Fish is fish. What separate fish from meat is that for most fishes, there’s no blood in their flesh. And you have to go farther back for that exception, right back to Jesus and Peter.
Fish is meat. Fish isn't a vegetable. It's whatever year it is and people still think fish isn't meat?!
You're half right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanu...otic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules.
Before I became a vegetarian, I found "Mett" the most disgusting. Mett is a mix of raw ground pork and beef, similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare Some eat it on a roll with salt and pepper.
Absolutely, I lived on it when I was backpacking around Egypt for a month. Easy to make too, very simple recipe.
Mett sounds revolting. I’ve always been scared of eating undercooked/raw pork because of the danger of worms. Urban myth now, I know but I childhood indoctrination holds firm!
“While pigs are not known to carry adult tapeworms, three types of 'bladder worm' or tapeworm cysts can infect pigs. Cysticercus cellulosae (pork measles) is the immature stage of the human tapeworm Taenia solium. The thin-necked bladder worm, Cysticercus tenuicollis is the intermediate stage of Taenia hydatigena, a tapeworm of dogs. The third type is the hydatid cyst, the immature form of a small tapeworm of dogs, Echinococcus granulosus.” I was looking for a source and found this horrifying one from the QLD Dept of Agriculture. Pigs are liable to dozens of worms! I had thought that modern farming methods prevented them. https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business.../health-diseases/prevention/controlling-worms
The wonderful thing about tapeworms is that once ingested they can move around your body and lay their eggs in your organs or even behind your eyes leading to serious illness or even blindness. I was taught that in catering college 35 years ago and still remember it. Enjoy your pork. I stopped eating meat within months of leaving college.
