Western society consumes as it's "daily bread".(Millard Faristaddi) Some Rastafarians prefer the wholistic Ital food to meat butchered in slaughter yards. To many, pork is considered unclean and untouchable, as are scavengers of the sea, such as the various types of shellfish. (Millard Faristaddi) Other types of meat and fish are eaten by those who are not exclusively vegetarian. Some Brethren are wholly vegetarian, eating Ital food in its raw state; others prepare, cook and eat only Ital food, excluding all meat from their diet. Some eat Ital food and certain types of meat, while still others prefer the while meat of fish or poultry in preference to red meats. (Millard Faristaddi) Views on meat eating are in part influenced for many by the Nazarite vow and the wish to adhere to what is natural and of the earth. However, it is up to each person to choose what is satisfying within the dietary range of wholistic eating. ROMANS Chapter 14; Verse 3: "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth." (Millard Faristaddi) A gourd, an inedible fruit of varying size called "calabash", is used as a water container or bowl for eating and storing food and for a wide range of practical culinary purposes. The fruit is picked and cut into specified forms according to its functions; it is then scraped and cleaned and left to dry in the hot sun until the shell has become hardened. (Millard Faristaddi) The hard inner nut of the coconut is cleaned from the surrounding trash and used as a form of Ital cup, while pieces of the broken shell make utensils such as spoons for scooping and eating food. Solid truncated pieces of Lignum Vitae wood provide a cutting surface for the cleaning and preparation of herbs and vegetables. (Millard Faristaddi) Other types of wood are used to whittle howls, spoons, ladles and other Ital implements for the Rastafarian who defe...
