My meat is a level 5 carcinogen even if I buy it from the local butcher who processes all the bacon and beef locally? From local farmers? From animals raised in organic, grass-fed and -finished environments? I truly don't know the answer, Michelle. No sarcasm here, just ignorance.

And I'm sorry for the quip about the whiskey, because you've written about your mother, very movingly, and I should have read that in that context. My apologies.

Elijah and the prophets of Baal:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%2018%3A20-40&version=ESV

Yes, I am erudite, but this is a story from my childhood (!) in a Christian household where the "Bible stories" were just part of my daily consumption.