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Originally Posted by leadfootgirl,Mar 5 2010, 02:02 PM
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As a generic culinary and butchery term of art, "meat" refers to the muscular flesh of a mammal. This is the definition most commonly applied by governments in meat product regulation and food labeling, and in religious rites and rituals. Edible birds and fish/seafood are not "meat" under this application but are treated separately from mammals. Likewise, amphibians and reptiles, not to mention the "meat" of edible insects, arachnids, and so on.
Religious rites and rituals regarding food also tend to apply this distinction, classifying the birds of the air and the fish of the sea separately from land-bound mammals. Sea-bound mammals are often treated as fish under religious laws. Following is stated in the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church.
Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
As a generic culinary and butchery term of art, "meat" refers to the muscular flesh of a mammal. This is the definition most commonly applied by governments in meat product regulation and food labeling, and in religious rites and rituals. Edible birds and fish/seafood are not "meat" under this application but are treated separately from mammals. Likewise, amphibians and reptiles, not to mention the "meat" of edible insects, arachnids, and so on.
Religious rites and rituals regarding food also tend to apply this distinction, classifying the birds of the air and the fish of the sea separately from land-bound mammals. Sea-bound mammals are often treated as fish under religious laws. Following is stated in the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church.
Can. 1250 The penitential days and times in the universal Church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
It's another "because they said so."
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Originally Posted by TepEvan,Mar 5 2010, 02:05 PM
You MD guys hear that legislation is going to be voted on next week so we can legally run only a rear plate? Supposedly, it will save the state 1/2 million bucks a year.
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Originally Posted by e3opian,Mar 5 2010, 02:04 PM
I don't understand. Jesus ate fish. So I eat fish. Therefore I am a little bit more like Jesus?
I don't know... It's the unjustifiable parts of organized religion like this that get me. I understand the don't steal, don't kill, etc... but don't eat meat between these dates. All other dates are a-okay...
I don't know... It's the unjustifiable parts of organized religion like this that get me. I understand the don't steal, don't kill, etc... but don't eat meat between these dates. All other dates are a-okay...
If everything happens according to Gods plan, than when I fap, I am doing the lords work?
Srsly, I got tired of religion when I figured out I was to take all the shame and God took all the glory. This breeds guilt--the backbone of all religions.