Sharing: "Food, Ethics, Sacrifice" from Finnchuill's Mast

"I hadn’t planned to join the polytheist month of silence, but it kind of worked out that way. But an incident has come to my attention that I feel is very important to speak out on.

The ethics of food should be an important element in any religious considerations, but even more so for any pagan or earth-respecting traditions. As embodied organisms we all have to eat, and from an animist perspective that means we have to eat someone. So how does one do that in an ethical manner? Indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures are rich places to look and one can find numerous ways these cultures saw the exchange of lives as one of mutual giving and taking. But the taking of life was not one lacking in consequence."

 Please read the rest of this wonderful response to the recent horse eating horror. "Food, Ethics, Sacrifice"  

I am glad to see others speaking out on this!