Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Without Men, We'd All Be Vegetarians


While we were in Wisconsin, I took Emma to an organic farm. There were two baby calves and we enjoyed just watching them. They were so adorable and I could tell that we would get very attached to those two calves as they grew, if we were around. As we were leaving, a big, burly guy was driving a huge truck filled with large cows, probably taking them to be slaughtered.

This got me to thinking. If there were no men in the world, we would all be vegetarians. Women have a hard time not having an emotional attachment to animals and would hate having to slaughter them. When I mentioned this to Erin {my daughter-in-law}, she told me that when her grandmother was a child during the depression, they had a victory garden and raised rabbits for food.

When it was time to slaughter them, her dad would go down the street and change rabbits with their neighbor so they wouldn't have to eat their pet rabbit. When she grew up, she found out that her dad simply went down the street, shook his neighbor's hand, then slaughtered their rabbit. They were eating their pet rabbits all that time! He knew his daughter would never be able to handle the fact that they were eating their pet.

This was just another example to me of the differences between the sexes even though our society likes to blur the lines so much that there is hardly a noticeable difference between the two. From the beginning of time, men have been the hunters and providers while women bore children and took care of the home.

The blurring of the lines between the sexes has caused havoc in our world. Men look like women and women look like men. Men are becoming feminized and homosexuality is becoming more common. Women are becoming more masculine {even fighting in wars} and no longer think they need men. Sexuality is becoming undefined, therefore, children are growing up very sexually confused. Women go off to work and men leave their families. Women have children without husbands and expect the government to take care of them. Children are growing up without fathers. Society is lost and suffering without clearly defined male and female roles.

God established these roles from the very beginning. In fact, they have always existed. God the Father was the authority and the Son submitted to the Father. God made Adam the authority and Eve was to be his help meet, submitting to his authority; clearly defined roles.

Woman's curse was ~ thy desire {to control} shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee {Genesis 3:16}. God's prescription to overcome the curse is ~ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them {Colossians 3:18,19}.

It is that simple, women. God created clearly defined roles for a reason. There is peace and harmony in the home when they are followed. Therefore, begin submitting to your husband in everything. Allow him to be the leader of the home, then go eat a piece of meat and thank the good Lord for creating men!

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I have to disagree with some of this. I think whether or not you become emotionally attached to animals and therefore have troubles slaughtering them is dependent on how you were raised. If you grew up in a farming/hunting family then most likely you were raised to view most animals as food sources (I was) not pets. They didn't get names, they didn't get petted, they got fed and took care of until the time came to kill and process them. It's common in rural communities for the man of the house to shoot and field dress the animal and the woman to do the skinning, cleaning and processing. People raised in urban and suburban areas have a tendency to have a disconnection when it comes to that plastic wrapped meat in the fridge and a steer out in the field. This doesn't have anything to do with biblical roles, but an error in educating children. I agree with the rest of your post.Brings to mind the disturbing trend of raising children gender neutral. Giving them neutral names, and letting them "pick" their gender as they grow. Society has gotten far from remembering that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made" and should embrace our differences as God intended.
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
Oh my gosh I LOVE the TITLE OF THIS POST, I am visiting via another blogger but and so glad it caught my eye.. SO TRUE SO SADLY TRUE... Satan has allowed the femminist movement to just be so vile and degrading, and we women have taken bite from the same kind of fruit but different generation. Questioning YHWH's authority and well meaning for our lives. Again great post
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
How phenomenal this post is. Poignant and practical. Thanks again Lori.
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
I have to agree with Jackie, we raise goats, chickens, and cows for our table and for sale. All our animals are named and taken care of until they need to go on our table. Our children (5 daughters and a son) understand this because they've been raised to understand that God gave us these animals for nourishment for our bodies. I very much agree with the rest of the post though!
2 replies · active 547 weeks ago
As you know, all men are not alike, nor are all women. Sarah Palin was famous for shooting and dressing animals. But looking at the history of the human race, it's the men who seem to love to start wars, or go to war!
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
Oh goodness, ladies. Nitpick, nitpick! You basically agree with what Lori is saying so why be agrumentative about one part of her post. She said MOST women. Stop stirring the pot. Play nice.
4 replies · active 547 weeks ago
You're welcome, Lori! I see this so often, people (especially women, in my observation) get stuck on one point or sentence in someone's blog. It's almost like they are looking for controversy or a fight. Why? Why? Why? Is society like this now??? When did it happen? We don't need to make a big deal about one or two statements, especially if we basically agree with the point of the post. Keep speakin' the truth, Sister!!!
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
Oh wow! DON'T FEED THE TROLLS! And just as a disclaimer, I am not saying any of the previous comments are from trolls. :-)
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Just keep speaking God's truth. :-)
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
Great post, Lori! I was raised on a large farm. I married my husband, who also farms with his two brothers and father with lots of livestock. I remember when I was little, the time came to help clean chickens and I was in tears, pleading with my father to let me stay in the house. He was kind and did, and while I was walking away I wondered how he could sleep at night. My father still jokes about it with me to this day. But in reality I haven't changed much. My husband hunts deer and is always proud to show me his kill. I try to show him happiness when it really just saddens me to see a beautiful animal killed. At the same time, I do eat meat and know where it comes from, and so I have nothing against the process. I just can never bring myself to watch the actual killing. Thank you for showing me some insight as to why! I think it is in men's primitive nature to kill and provide for the family, and women's nature to nurture. Blessings to you. I love your teachings.
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
I love this! My husband and I were discussing the possibility of raising lambs for meat. He already knows he's going to be taking care of the worst of it on his own. I can help cut up meat but I don't think I'd be able to hand actually doing the job. Although I like to hope if my children were starving I'd be able to do it. Hopefully it never comes to that. ;) Thankful for my husband!
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
The title made me giggle. Lol I never thought about it before though but it makes sense! I certainly could not hunt and even now refuse to eat rabbit since my daughter has a pet rabbit. Lol I feel it would be barbaric now with the little guy in his cage right in front of us.

My husband on the other hand says he's just plumping up the pet rabbit for Thanksgiving. I'm 62 percent sure he's kidding... but I wouldn't put it past him.
1 reply · active 547 weeks ago
Fifteen years ago my husband and I raised 24 cornish cross meat birds. My husband did the killing and I processed when the time came...I even left to another outbuilding until he called to say he was ready for me. Yep...I would be a vegetarian!! And I will add..probably so would my husband...at least for a while....he said after that day that he didn't want to do that any more.
Now that said...I could fish (but not put worms on a hook) and I could kill a fish if I had to. I have done that before. It would not be easy but I could.
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Great post. Yesterday I expressed to my husband that I really am grateful and appreciative that he's the one on the battlefield working grueling and stressful hours and that I get to be with the kids. I almost feel I have the better end of the deal. He said that he actually enjoys his work, and then said that he couldn't do what I do at home. I said I enjoy it, and gave me a semi-surprised look that said "to each his own". So we are definitely in the right roles that God created us to fill!!!
Also, society is definitely trying to blur gender roles. Even baby girls' names are now trending toward the masculine or androgynous. Btw, I have a theory that if more women stayed home, men would not have to compete with them for jobs, and men would be better able to support their families, like they did in the 50's.
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Loving being Mrs. W · 547 weeks ago

Awwwwwww! I just love the little calves and I agree; for our family if I had to kill for us to eat we would all be vegetarians!!! I know that there are women who can kill animals to eat we have a friend who met his wife at work; they both worked at an animal slaughtering house and both did the killing/slaughtering and dressing of the animals!!
However there is no way I could do it!! I would be in tears the whole time!!!
Lori, do you kill ants, snails or cockroaches? I do but I even find that hard at times!!!
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Loving being Mrs. W · 547 weeks ago

Sadly we do!! I use bug bombs to deal with they!!!
I grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. It was hard for me to watch our lame cattle be killed by the renderer. I cried every time, even when I grown.
I married a man who used to hunt. He would bring home his deer with a huge smile on his face. I would always feel bad for the deer, but would tell my husband how proud I was of him. Then I would help him process the meat. Wasn't my favorite thing to do but it needed done.
If I had to kill to feed my family I think we probably would be vegetarian. Once we had a mouse in our house and my husband killed it. I couldn't even watch that even though I hate mice.
Thank God for men! What a gift they are.
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FreeIndeed! · 547 weeks ago

When my hubby and i were in college we hit a deer with our car on the way back to school. He went to get help and i was standing there in the dark on the side of the road with the deer. It started gasping and shivering so i put my fuzzy winter coat over it & poured a sip of my Pepsi on its tongue. When he got back with two local farmers they could not stop laughing!! They were thinking of collecting the meat. I guess i says waiting for the veterinary ambulance!! That story never gets old. .

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