I grew up on a hobby farm in Canada. We raised animals, processed our own chickens, and ate meat pretty much every day. But I haven’t eaten land animals or birds in over five years.So why did I stop eating meat after growing up on a farm?In this episode, I tell the story of how that shift happened, and why it stuck. It wasn’t one big moment but a mix of experience, circumstance, and eventually, reading Scripture a little more carefully than I had before.I reflect on growing up around animals, what changed when I became a husband and father, and how passages like Genesis 1, Genesis 9, and the biblical vision of new creation reshaped how I think about animals, food, and the future Christians are called to live toward.This isn’t an argument that every Christian should stop eating meat, I don’t think the Bible commands that. But it is an attempt to think more honestly about why we eat animals, what the Bible says about animals, and what it might look like to take seriously that God calls his creatures good.My article in the Anabaptist World: https://anabaptistworld.org/from-farm-boy-to-christian-vegetarian/John Berkman's Chapter "Are We Addicted to the Suffering of Animals: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236008418_Are_We_Addicted_to_the_Suffering_of_Animals_Animal_Cruelty_and_the_Catholic_Moral_Tradition_-_John_Berkman Please follow the podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bespectacled-curious/id1880366110 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6iMFvbcOgsmrOAzxiwbNXj

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