[JeepInMazar]

ACT 10:13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!"
ACT 10:14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
ACT 10:15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."

[JeepInMazar]

1CO 10:25 Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience' sake;
1CO 10:26 for the earth is the Lord's, and all it contains.

[LiteKeeper]

Those who lived in the vegetarian period from Adam to Noah lived lives ranging from Adam 930 years to Methuselah who's recorded to live the longest in the Bible approx: 969 years.

Vegetarianism is not the reason they lived so long...or rather, that those following the Flood did not. It has to do with sin and the major change in the atmosphere after the Flood.

God would not permit the eating of animals in Gen 9:6, and in Acts 10 if it was harmful. You can NOT justify vegetarianism in the Bible...it is just not there.

[Between the Lines]

Mark 7:15-23

15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

[hellinahandcart]

After the Flood meat was finally introduced in the Human Diet.

So Abel was raising sheep for...the heck of it?

[Between the Lines]

[chicagolady]

Cheez-burger Cheez-burger Cheez -burger!

[johnb2004]

This is slightly off topic, but I think there is wisdom here:


I was delighted to read the Manichaean ramblings of Daniel Paden, director of the Catholic Vegetarian Society (“Letters,” June 2003). It confirmed my theory that fanaticism in Western society alternates between nudism and vegetarianism, both of which contradict the order of grace.

As an optimist, I happily trust that Paden confines his extreme commitments to vegetarianism. Taste is one thing; it is another thing to condemn meat-eating as “evil” and permissible only “in rare and unfortunate circumstances.” Paden disagrees with no less an authority than God who forbids us to call any edible unworthy (Mark 7:18-19), and who enjoined St. Peter to eat pork chops and lobster in one of my favorite revelations (Acts 10:9-16). Does the Catholic Vegetarian Society think that Our Lord was wrong to have served up fish to the 5,000, or should He have refrained from eating the Passover lamb? When He rose from the dead and appeared in the Upper Room, He did not ask for a bowl of Cheerios, nor did He whip up a meatless omelette on the shore of Galilee.

Man was made to eat flesh (Genesis 1:26-31; 9:1-6), with the exception of human flesh. I stand on record against cannibalism, whether it be inflicted upon the Mbuti Pygmies by the Congolese Army or on larger people by a maniac in Milwaukee. But I am also grateful that the benevolent father in the parable did not welcome his prodigal son home with a bowl of radishes.

Vegetarians assume an unedifying posture of detachment from the sufferings of vegetables that are mashed, stewed, diced, and shredded. In expensive restaurants cherries are publicly burned in brandy to the applause of diners. It is not uncommon for people to submerge olives in iced gin and twist the peels of lemons. Be indignant, vegetarian, but not so selectively indignant that the bleat of the lamb and the plaintive moo of the cow drown out the whine of our brother the bean and the quiet sigh of the cauliflower. Vegetables have reactive impulses. Were we to confine our diet to creatures that lack sense and do not even respond to light, we could only eat liturgists and liberal Democrats.

Rev. George W. Rutler
New York City

This was in Crisis magazine.