Making your food more fit for your beliefs
Some people avoid caffeine for their health, but a few even have a religious aversion. Those would be Mormons, whose “Word of Wisdom” (Doctine & Covenants 89) command against the consumption of store-bought wine, tobacco, and “hot drinks” (later interpreted to mean caffeinated drinks.)
Good Mormons will avoid coffee and tea, but almost all of them still eat chocolate, even though there’s about 30 milligrams of caffeine in a chocolate bar. They justify it because coffee has more (100 to 150 milligrams a cup), but really it’s because chocolate tastes good and nobody would want to be Mormon if they couldn’t eat chocolate.
So Joseph Weisenthal thinks there should be decaffeinated chocolate. It would be more expensive to produce, but think of the price in souls saved every day.
And then there’s the problem for vegans, especially those who refuse honey for the sake of the bees, that most plants are pollinated by bees. How can you be fully vegan when those vegetables you’re eviscerating are drowning in the sweat and tears of bees who have labored countless hours over each bite?
Therefore, Joseph Weisenthal proposes a giant enclosed dome for growing plants, under which all plants are hand-pollinated by humans, the only creatures who should be laboring for other humans.
Of course, these humans would all get a decent wage and free food.
6 years ago