But for me, the best gauge of Christian faithfulness for a company that makes their living selling chickens is how they treat their chickens, especially one that builds their entire marketing strategy around showing those poor cows some compassion. (See Cow Appreciation Day for more on that.) Their official statement of purpose is, “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us."
The shelves of Bibles next to aisles of activated charcoal powder, cashew cream, agar agar sea vegetable flakes, Minit-meat and vegan gelatin may seem unrelated. But at the Adventist Book Center and Vegetarian Food Outlet, the diet lifestyles of Seventh Day Adventists closely relate to the religion — and has since the church’s inception in the mid-1800s.