Rowina
(30 Aug 2011)
"To Kevin Heckle--help
me find churches that support veganism"
I am well aware of the truth of what you say about
churches departing from the faith concerning homosexuality,
etc., the most serious departure I have found being the concept
that Jesus was not resurrected bodily (believe it or not this is
taught by some Christian pastors such as Marcus Borg and others
who have influence).
But I have not found (perhaps because not looking) a church or
denomination pushing mandatory veganism. I am curious as
to where this may be found.
My church parish is so far from vegan that I would say, rather,
that they are junk food supporters. At the very least one
may say that they are oblivious of
"food additives" that are poisonous and do not care a hoot how
much saturated fat and over-salt their potlucks provide. I
cannot eat at their potlucks unless I
bring my lunch. Their efforts to barbecue everything with
solvent-saturated smoke is not a help either.
I am certainly aware of the dangers of veganism, as my
stepdaughter was a vegan for decades and now has osteoporosis
which is far advanced for her years.
She is no longer a vegan. Her mother, too, actually
succumbed from the side effects of a vegan diet, which crept up
on her and finally "got her", starting with
extreme osteoporosis. I believe some vegans avoid osteo by
taking capsules of B12 (which is missing in the vegan diet) but
still I think it is an unhealthy diet.
Thank you Keven or anyone who knows of compulsory veganism being
sponsored by churches.
For those not in the know, veganism is much more extreme than
vegetarianism. Typical vegetarians avoid meat taken from
living creatures, but most of them drink milk and eat
eggs. There are all "levels" of vegetarianism, with some
of them eating fish but no land-based meat. Some avoid
eggs but use dairy products. If one uses dairy and eggs
one can avoid the B-12 problem of veganism. This is complicated
by the widespread push against "diary," which some people think
is bad in itself. Dairy is bad only if you have the genes
to react badly to dairy. Those of us with pro-dairy genes
do well on dairy (many of us are anthropologically linked to the
"alpine stock" of Switzerland, who used lots of diary). I
myself eat fowl, diary, and eggs, but get some of my protein
from vegetable sources such as beans.
Some bean-eaters must avoid soy, i.e. tofu--it's very complex to
understand how people eat and how they should eat! Daniel
of the Bible probably had a vegetarian diet, but he somehow knew
how to add to it to avoid illness and live to a very ripe old
age.)
Mariel