as far as I knew the borg had taken verses from the bible to do with
animal blood and applied it to modern day to cover transfusions,which werent available back in bible times anyways, in the meantime it was always stressed on us to eat bled meat, not kosher just bled, but bled nonetheless,
how they can justify the turn around when it comes to allowing transfusions from cows blood, when the scriptures they use actually apply to abstaining from animal blood in the first place
j2444.pdf (lost pdf url will post it when ive found it again)
Australia ..................................................... 153
MacLEAN, Mr Donald Howard, Director, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of
Australia ..................................................... 124
TOOLE, Mr Vincent Joseph, Legal Officer, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of
Australia ..................................................... 124
Friday, 15 October 1999 JOINT FADT 131
Mr MacLean-Usually two, that is right. Our objective in doing that is to
start Bible
studies with people in their homes if possible. We leave literature. You
have seen this
magazine, Awake!, I am sure, lots of times. We left a copy of that one on
religious
intolerance with you. The Watchtower is published now in 135 languages,
about 20 million
copies every issue, so it is widely read throughout the world. We print them
here at our
place in Ingleburn. That is a little bit of our work.
Mr HOLLIS-You are not vegetarian, are you?
Mr MacLean-No, no. We have no dietary laws as such.
Senator SCHACHT-You have never eaten blood.
Mr MacLean-Just blood, that is all. We do not feed on blood; that is right.
Senator SCHACHT-But you eat red meat.
Mr MacLean-Nothing that has blood in it do we eat. We avoid that very
much-like
blood sausage.
Senator SCHACHT-So you do not eat your steaks rare then.
Mr MacLean-There again, you are coming into a fine line. The Bible says to
drain the
blood. It should be drained. We do that.
Mr HOLLIS-The point I was trying to make before Senator Schacht intervened
is this:
you said you had no dietary laws, and I accept that, but I was interested to
ask if you were
vegetarian, because it would seem to me-I am not an expert in the field-that
unless you
treat meat specifically it must contain an element of blood.
Mr MacLean-Yes. Obviously, yes. You do not spin-dry it or something like
that.
Mr HOLLIS-You said you had no dietary laws. You do not treat the meat in a
special
way? You go and buy your meat the same as I go and buy meat?
Mr MacLean-We guarantee that it is bled before we touch it. Whether it is
chickens or
beef, or whatever it might be, it has to be properly bled. We have beef
cattle on our property
as a matter of fact, and that is supervised very carefully.
Mr HOLLIS-So you have a special butchery?
Mr MacLean-No, it is done by registered butcheries and so on. But we are
very
conscious of the fact that it must be bled.
Mr Toole-It does not have any special kind of bleeding; it is just bled as
in the
abattoirs. That is all the Bible says had to be done-blood poured out on the
ground. God's
people back in ancient times were permitted to eat the flesh. In many ways
we are pretty
normal, but we obey the law when it says 'Abstain from blood'.
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