Saying Grace. To someone non-religious, this seemed a strange formality and ritual to have around food. I understood being thankful for your food and of being appreciative, but the way it was portrayed in entertainment, it often had a strange undertone of families squabbling, tensions, unawareness, and so on. And I didn’t really give it much overall thought, just accepting that’s what some people did before eating because of their religion.

Now, however, having spent some time thinking about food, systems, cell Memory, and ideas of the power of thought, it came back the subject of saying grace, and of why it might actually serve a purpose. And not just one of an ordered compliance.

There have been many discussions around food in recent decades, what’s good for you, and nutritious m, what’s recommended and what to avoid. Telling you one-minute eggs increase your rate of disease, then the following season, they are in, and good for you. Too much salt, no, not enough. Cholesterol, fat content, sugar, blood pressure, weight, and more. Targeting different aspects of your lifestyle, habits, tastes and mentality, like how they did for general Consumerism, but this time it wasn’t for products in your living room, your Social Status or your external facade. This time it went for the ultimate, what people really can’t do without. Food.

I have already written a number of articles around food and the systems already in place with –

If You Control The Food

Supermarkets

The Weight of Food

You Are What You Eat

Beyond Meat or Beyond Ridiculous?

And we all must have heard about the ‘fight against agriculture’ the governments are putting in place, to crack down on farming and people growing their own food, targeting Trucks and Tractors and the industry as a whole. We now hear of limits of fizzy drinks in establishments, by order of ‘the government’, calorie counters to be had in commercial businesses, the supermarkets getting on board to also restrict your calories once they scan your basket. Wanting people to literally be spoon fed by the government and their extended branches and affiliates, so they longer understand what is good for them, what may be harmful or helpful or of benefit in some way.

We know there are certain parts of all industries that are not what we thought, and now and again we get to see part of the full picture. How animals are treated within the food and farming industry seems to vary greatly, and if you have ever seen a real farm, and also seen some of the disturbring undercover videos that have emerged over the years, you’ll know what I mean. The latest outrage I see trying to gather steam appears to be for Halal meat, as it turns out that it has infiltrated the general markets, and is being distributed through schools, universities, supermarkets, prisons and wherever there are bulk sales and purchases. Not labelled as such, and turns out breaks it’s own definition of legal allowance by being sold to non-religious people. However, upon checking the wording, as they do quite cleverly word things sometimes to get around such instances – it says ‘not intended for non-religious consumption’, so as long as they didn’t ‘intend’ to sell it to that outlet at the time of slaughter, I guess, technically, that doesn’t affect it thereafter? And that’s where it obviously gets murky, and how it seems to get around the existing laws against animal cruelty and of selling meat killed in a certain type of way.

I’m also guessing that we have a fair amount of Kosher in this country too, and as far as I know, it’s the same practice, but clearly has been more select about their market, although occasionally people tag them together. But we as people, do not know really where our food has been, what it has experienced, and how it’s been treated. They say everything has an energy field, everything has a life force, and intentions and actions make an imprint, leaving something behind in the cells. That’s why I mention cell memory, because if you think of an animal being treated extremely cruelly before death, whether it be on an average farm, in a slaughterhouse or any kind of animal death row really, then it adds unneccessary suffering and horror. And when you then eat that meat, you are momentarily taking in the energy that now lingers in those cells, and if it had a good life and was treated well to the end, you are then aware of the exchange, that life gives life.

So, the actual point of this article comes around, that perhaps saying grace or a prayer over your food isn’t just about thanking your deity for providing, but because it helps to cleanse the energy that may have been imbued by something that came before. And to acknowledge that a process of growing, living and dying happens so that we can eat, and it doesn’t seem completely unreasonable to think we might show a little respect for that…

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