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Today, we continue our interview with Keith Akers as he speaks about “Disciples: How Jewish Christianity Shaped Jesus and Shattered the Church,” which was released in 2014. “They’re called Jewish Christians because they were loyal to the Law of Moses as they understood it, but they were also followers of Jesus, as they understood Him. So, I think that the Jewish Christians probably have the best claim to represent the views of Jesus. They were vegetarians, and they were against animal sacrifice.” “Paul is talking about that there are a bunch of people in the early Church who are not only vegetarians, but believe that vegetarianism should be required. Most likely, they’re the leadership of the early Church: James, Peter, and John. So, we know that the leadership of the early Church was vegetarian. Jesus Himself went into the temple and disrupted the animal sacrifice business.”In “Embracing Limits: A Radical and Necessary Approach to the Environmental Crisis,” Mr. Akers explains how animal-people-raising has drastically increased the world’s megafauna biomass, putting a significant strain on the environment. “ “But then in 1500, it takes off, it goes up rapidly, so that by the 20th century, it goes up to 1,500 billion kilograms. That’s a factor of over a seven-fold increase in megafauna biomass. Well, first of all, that’s not coming from wild animals. That’s from humans and their livestock.” “So it’s actually decreased by more than half, the total plant matter. So we’ve decreased the amount of photosynthesis that would take up carbon dioxide; we’ve increased the number of animals that would breathe out carbon dioxide. So that’s part of the process of dealing with climate change, is getting rid of livestock agriculture and returning a lot of the land that we’ve taken over for livestock, to natural sources, to natural vegetation” “That we could live a more sustainable lifestyle, one in which we’re not consuming everything else on the planet in order to get what we want.”
