Thanks for opening my mind up to the concepts you covered.

Faith and Animal Reverence Ministry

http://faithandanimalreverenceministry.blogspot.com

Religion may be about having faith, but sensible faith is based on some logic and common sense and this will help show that Jesus must have been vegan or at least vegetarian:

1. Jesus preached compassion, love and kindness to all. He is quoted many, many times regarding this. I doubt if such a man with His morals and ethics would then go and eat animal flesh.

2. As with John the baptist being commonly mistaken to have eaten locusts and honey, there most likely could have been confusion in using the word “fish” or “meat” in the bible. There’s a longstanding confusion in the etymological origin of the word locust. Locust is both a bean from the carob plant and an insect. The Greek word for cakes or bread made from the flour of the carob bean is ‘egkrides’ and the Greek word for locust the insect is ‘akrides’. The insect locust is approved to be clean for consumption in Leviticus. It was a delicacy in those days and was mostly consumed by the upper and/or priestly class.

John the Baptist belonged to a group of ascetics who believed in repentance and in leading an austere lifestyle. The carob bean was seen as the diet of the lower class who normally endured hardship and exploitation from the priestly class. So most likely John the Baptist ate locust plant seed from the carob tree.

Also, regarding honey, it could be anything from saps of certain trees to juice of the crushed dates. Carob flour and crushed dates made a good damper or sweet rustic cake, hence the word ‘egkrides’ in the Greek version of the Bible.

Some Church Fathers circa 400AD put forth an injunction to change the word ‘egkrides’ in the Bible meaning cakes to ‘akrides’ the insect locust, not realising that locust the insect was a delicacy enjoyed by the priestly upper crust, from whom John the Baptist and people like John distanced themselves from.

Words in the Bible have been known to be erroneously translated.

3. The Bible isn’t the only source that mentions Jesus’ life. Check out the book, The Gospel of the Nazirenes. This book tells us that Jesus did not eat animals, and it also details the accuracy of their scripture in the beginning of the book. I believe this version of the New Testament because it agrees with Jesus’ nature of being non-violent.

4. Jesus was a known rebel during His time on earth. He, many times, did not go along with what people often did, hence what was one of the reasons why He was persecuted. It makes sense that one of the things He rebelled against was eating animal flesh because, as I mentioned earlier, Jesus was a very moral and ethical person.

For the animals~~

If you would like to hear more, I’ve just done a radio show about whether cats can be vegan over at The Vegan Option.

At the time you recorded your show, Lorelei Wakefield’s research was still ongoing. I talked to her about it, as well as with Andrew Knight and skeptical vet Jean Hofve.

No decent human should except these practices.
You have informed many who will now make more compassionate decisions in their diet.
Great interview!!!

Is there any chance of reposting a less compressed audio file? It’s sometimes a struggle to hear remote guests.

Please address therapeutic fasting and ideal BMI for health and longevity.

TNX,

Stephen