Hindu paintballers be like
Yeah wait, can we not make paintballs with…no animal parts?
Pretty sure it’s jist the shell the paint is in that uses animal parts, and glycerine can be made from plants too. 🤷♂️
You can definitely get Glycerine from a Bush.
I hate living in this wheel where everyone steals.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
Paintbalals
“Within islam” is doing a lot if work here that should be elaborated upon.
I know nothing about paintball, but I feel like there has to be vegan paintballs.
Marbles
Fuck. I guess you’re the one attending paintball with a Claymore.
Agar maybe, or alginate
Blend kale and almond milk.
So you don’t need them to be hallal if you just don’t get hit.
Presumably they need to be able to touch their own balls?
All the more motivation!!
It was just medieval food safety to not eat pork in hot countries. They really need to update their software.
The origin of Abrahamic dietary laws is not certain. There is no obvious benefit in terms of hygiene, also not in ancient times (they long predate “medieval” times). Keep in mind that poultry carries a significant risk of salmonella poisoning.
It has been suggested that the origin might have simply been that pigs are viewed as unclean due to their own diet including carrion. Another speculated reason is that rulers might have wanted to promote poultry due to it being a more economical way of raising livestock.
There was also the result of drawing a sharp line between the in-group and everyone else. If we have strict dietary laws but the people on the other side of the hill don’t share them, then it follows that they’re unspeakable barbarians, and that we should not trade or cooperate with them, let alone intermarry, and indeed, it’s acceptable to kill them and take their stuff, as surely such a barbarous people would do the same to us.
i have a specific unusual food allergy. I always presumed abraham or ishmael or jacob or moses or one of them mythical folk had a food allergy against pigs and said “you know what, if i started a religion about not eating pigs maybe i wouldn’t get the runs every time i went out to eat”
Maybe they just thought pigs are too cute to eat.
Pigs of all animals?
I thought it was due to the parasites, worms?, that pork gets in hot arid countries which is why both the Jews and Muslims don’t eat it
No, that’s just an ad-hoc rationalization. Before refrigeration, people didn’t just leave fresh meat lying around. Either it was consumed immediately after cooking it, or it was smoked, cured or dried right away after butchering (people used much more salt than they do nowadays for e.g. modern hams to make sure the meat lasted a long time). The climate doesn’t really matter - in temperate climates fresh meat goes bad rapidly as well.
Just going to point out that cold storage predates modern refrigeration by literal millenia, hell there was a Greek island that mastered it well enough to consistently manufacture ice cream. I think the term I’ve heard is lagen basically a stone basement with evaporation boxes that can be used to keep tempatures around 50°F. The problem was consistency and how much labor it took to actually build the things, also they’d sometimes just kinda break if the environment shifted too much or were only usable during certain seasons.
It reminds me of Northern Europeans stereotyping Southern Europeans as lazy. But Northern European don’t realise it is mainly because Southern Europe is very hot to work for longer hours. The Southern European “siesta” of course carried over to Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Before Cuba gained independence from Spain, they only work three hours a day, and this happened only about one hundred years ago.
Could also just be an exaggerated case of “ew, poor people food”, since pigs will eat damn near anything.
I guess chickens are similarly omnivorous and take up less space though (plus, eggs). And are arguably easier to transport and defend (a rooster can fuck you up)
Yeah. Religion is well-known for its acceptance of logic 😆
It’s religion, not science. Unfortunately, logic isn’t a requirement.
Someone needs to explain to me why there’s ANY animal product in a paintball in the first place.
Hope you aren’t a gummy bear fan, cause I have news for you
Pectin FTW
You know they’re not really made of bears, right?
Paintballs are made of gelatin. Gelatin is often just collagen and collagen is basically connective tissue.
TIL
I only did paintball once, and that place didn’t use gelatin balls, I think they were made of a thin bioplastic film (corn stuff) filled with ink
Fun fact! This is why E Ink displays use pig products!
Is there a Halal Kindle for the Islamic world?
New advertising campaign unlocked.
And halal paint balls still hurt when getting shot.
Shouldn’t hurt too much, they do no haram
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I’ll allow it.
Do they hurt like halal?
I see what you did there. Yes, they hurt halal.
Are they also required to be… green?
Green is the color of Islam because it is the religion of peas.
