The July-August Peaceable Table is now online

[Richard Ellwood]

Dear Peaceable Friends,

With this issue we begin the sixteenth year of publishing The Peaceable Table.

• The issue's topic is "sport" hunting, meaning, of course, that the flesh of the animal killed is not a needed part of the hunter's diet.  "Sport" is in scare-quotes because the definition of sports we accept is some type of game in which all parties agree to the rules.  (We don't try to convince ourselves that animals accept death, nobly sacrifice their lives for our sakes).
• The Glimpse of the Peaceable Kingdom features a picture from 2010 of a male dove named Noah tenderly fathering a litter of orphaned bunnies.
• "Killing Animals for Entertainment," the Editor's Corner Essay, describes some of the reasons people claiming Christian convictions engage in "sport" hunting, and problems with their position, such as nutrition.
• In one of the NewsNotes, the firm Beyond Meat made its stock market debut with the price of shares rising no less than 163% on the first day--the biggest since 2000.
• James N. Brune, a seismologist and supporter of QUAK who went veg on his own in the 1950-- and is still veg-- is our Pioneer.
• Robert Ellwood Reviews God, Nimrod, and the World, an anthology about "sport" hunting by avowed Christians which for the most part favors hunting as an acceptable Christian activity.
• Zucchini Lasagne is our Recipe for this issue.  It is from The Peaceable Kitchen, a cookbook produced by Sandpoint, Idaho Friends in 1994.
• The Poetry selection, by Thomas Hardy, briefly sketches a scene in which a deer standing in the snow looks through in the window at people in a house.  She (or he) sees us, but we--tragically?-- do not see her . . . .

To read in this issue, go to vegetarianfriends.net/issue156.html.

Toward the Age of Gold,
Gracia Fay Ellwood
Editor

"You must treat the foreigners living among you as the native-born, and love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt."--Lev. 19:34