Hell yeah. But stewing up a lamb or goat before it's weaned and had a chance to put some meat on that skeleton? Nah, that I won't do, it would be like having a whack of chickens and never hatching an egg. Those dusty old dudes were bang on...don't boil the kid in its mother milk...
don''t forget, it use to be just old laws written by men, but since you Chriistians took over, it is now "The Word of God" so you also have to burn down your houses if they get mildew. (it's in there, look it up.) but getting serious I just saw on Natural Geographic, when monkeys evolved and started walking upright, it made childbirth painful Wasn't that the curse God inflicted on Adam and Eve? and don't even get me started about the battle between farmers and herders what were their names? Cain and Able? nothing worse than planting a field and having a bunch of herders run through it but kind of hard to find the "Promised Land" if you are already tied down to the last field you planted. and that is why God likes nomads who eat meat. it's all in there just read the book (the movie wasn't that great)
at anyrate, we now own Israel (the Promised Land) and are just barely hanging on, and couldn't do it if all the Christians didn't beleive it was "The Word of God" It isn't easy running a two testemant scam and that is why I am glad I believe in "The Word of God" and not the Koran. So yes, GDP is the best way to measure a nations wealth. It's what we have always done and I don't see any reason to change it now TRADITION!