A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Well, good Messianics, I have reported to you before about the evil perpetrated in the name of kosher slaughter. Now I am bringing to you the story of beef being served to your kids in the school cafeteria. This situation has both health and moral implications. Eating these products hurts us physically and spiritually. Please carefully consider the implications of the following video:

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"Downer" cows are not cows with bad attitudes. They are cows so sick that they can't stand up on their own. Our industrial food system cares not a bit for the health of the product they put on your table. Nor do they care for even a basic level of humane treatment toward God's creatures for which they have accepted responsibility.

Now you might be tempted to say, "well, California is a long way from Texas." Not so in the industrial food system. Beef from this operation is currently being served in Texas school cafeterias today. Is this OK with you? Not me.

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So, what can you do? Make yourself powerful.

• Buy a cow. OK, OK. I know exactly what I'll hear. "I can't afford it." As a good Messianic you already have a model for how to handle that. Our instructions for the Passover are to use a lamb. And if a lamb is too much for your family, share it with another family. Get the idea? I've got a steer munching away on a co-workers land. I paid $300 for him at weaning. He'll go to slaughter at about 900 pounds and yield about 300 pounds of meat. That's filet mignon, rib eye, chuck roast, stew meat, hamburger.... everything. So at $.50 per pound processing @hanging weight I'll spend another $300 to have him butchered. My math says that comes to $2.00 per pound for the best beef (and healthiest and humanely treated) that you'll ever eat. Doesn't sound expensive to me.
• Buy grassfed beef. You'll get all the benefits as above. The problem here is that you'll pay $16.00 per pound for that ribeye and $5.00 per pound for hamburger.
• Be a vegetarian. Hey, I've done it for years at a time and I can get just as fat eating that way as I can eating lots of meat.

Folks, we have to step up to our responsibilities. I wonder how the Almighty perceives our worship when we come home from that and partake of what you just saw in those videos? I'm as guilty as any.