Net Protein Loss
Jesus fed the masses, who went on to worship their appetites.
The case is worse than that. When it comes to farmed fish, there is a net protein loss: it takes three pounds of fish feed to produce one pound of farmed salmon. This protein pyramid — small fish fed to farmed fish, pigs and poultry that are then fed to humans — is unsustainable. It threatens the foundation of oceanic life.
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Scripture and commentary for thought:
Phil. 3:18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
Commentary -
19 Greco-Roman philosophers and non-Palestinian Jewish writers (especially Philo) repeatedly railed against those ruled by their passions, often remarking that they were ruled by their “belly” (KJV, NRSV) or their (sexual or culinary) “appetite” (NASB), disdaining their neglect of eternal things. Gluttony especially became part of Roman culture, and its practice by the aristocracy was a frequent butt of satirists’ humor. But being ruled by one’s “belly” meant more than gluttony; it was used to mean any fleshly indulgence (cf. “bodily desires”— TEV). This would be a serious insult to those who thought they were zealous for the law; but Paul had already “shamed” their “glory” by his own example in 3:4-8. ~ IVP Bible Background Commentary on the New Testament
19 The ultimate end for such persons is “destruction” (apoleia, the regular NT word for eternal loss, the opposite of soteria, “salvation”). (See note on 1:28.) “Their god is their stomach.” … It is easier to explain it of sensualists who indulged various physical appetites without restraint (Rom 16:18; 1Cor 6:13; Jude 11). ~ The Expositors Bible Commentary
