Do mennonite people eat meat?

Question

Do mennonite people eat meat?

Answer 1

Yes.  When I lived in IL, the Mennonite would have a sausage and pancake breakfast every year.

Answer 2

The people that I knew from Missouri did.  That isn't to say that there are some that don't - just that I never met them.

It isn't a required mandate of their belief - that much I am sure of.

Answer 3

Yes they do.

Answer 4

Yes they do. i know of at least one who's a butcher and lists sausages, scrapple and souse among his specilities. Also eats bacon and chicken livers for breakfast

Answer 5

The Mennonite church has no official stand on vegetarianism and practices vary widely among members.

Many Mennonite farmers have made their living from raising farm animals and especially in the past were able to do so in ways that animals were able to live in relative peace and freedom.

Those who are vegetarian do so from a mixture of concern for animals, for diet/nutrition, for the environment (growing crops being a more efficient way of using the land for food), and as a natural extension of their peace witness. A Mennonite congregation in England states, “This is not an article of faith for us, but we have discussed and agreed that our shared lunches and meals at church should be vegetarian.”

While there are many many individual vegetarians among Mennonites, having shared congregational meals be vegetarian is probably more of an exception than a norm.

Answer 6

Yes.

Answer 7

haha yes. Lots and lots of pork. Shinkefleish and farmer sausage all the time. It's amazingly good and fattening.