{"id":45340,"date":"2018-12-08T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=45340"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:31:07","slug":"what-to-do-when-you-want-a-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-to-do-when-you-want-a-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do When You Want A Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[740,383,401,416],"acf":{"old_id":"45340","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":44687,"related_cahpter":"107","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Above all else: be mindful! A life has just been sacrificed ","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have never lived on a farm nor have I ever slaughtered an animal. I have friends who have shared their experiences with me, but I know the limits of second-hand descriptions. As a biblical scholar who focuses a lot of my study in the Book of Leviticus, I decided to do the next best thing: watch YouTube videos!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I spent several days watching dozens of videos on animal slaughter in the United States. Some videos documented mass farm factories and other videos highlighted humane locally based slaughterhouses. Apart from feeling quite sick and disturbed, I noticed one central aspect of all these videos. Whether local or large industry, whether humanely oriented or efficiency oriented, in every video I witnessed the blood of the animals fall onto the floors, where hoses would wash the blood down into sewers on the floors. This was one of the most disturbing images for me and I believe that my knowledge of Leviticus 17 influenced my experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first law in Leviticus 17 stipulates that any Israelite who slaughters cattle, sheep or goats for meat out in the fields instead of slaughtering the animal by God\u2019s altar with the help of a priest would face negative repercussions. Most modern readers encounter this biblical material with little interest, since we do not slaughter our own meat and we have no altars to God. However, this material is worthy of our attention. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In verse 5, the text subtly transforms the status of farm animals from sources of meat to sacred thanksgiving offerings. The Bible teaches that blood is the source of life or the animating force of the body. To kill an animal for its meat and to experience the bloodiness as a by-product is akin to murder. How different to offer the blood to God in a sacred context in which the lost life is acknowledged, and then to consume the meat after the ritual ensures that every source of meat is identified as a life lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those of us who are carnivores, Leviticus 17 urges us to be mindful each time we eat meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>illustration:\u00a0By cyclonebill &#8211; Burger, CC BY-SA 2.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8822898\u00a0<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":45379,"id":45379,"title":"Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger","filename":"Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-to-do-when-you-want-a-burger\/flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_burger\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_burger","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":45340,"date":"2018-12-09 06:48:16","modified":"2018-12-09 06:48:30","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1024,"height":768,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger-300x225.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger-768x576.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":576,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger-1024x768.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":768,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger.jpg","1536x1536-width":1024,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger.jpg","2048x2048-width":1024,"2048x2048-height":768,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger.jpg","post_full_size-width":1024,"post_full_size-height":768,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Flickr_-_cyclonebill_-_Burger-560x420.jpg","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"What To Do When You Want A Burger","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Above all else: be mindful! 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