Don’t you feel any compassion for the suffering animals?

Question: Thank you for your reply. I do appreciate it; however, you have not answered my question: do you feel any mercy or compassion for those animals’ suffering? How do you think it would feel to have been killed with a bow and arrow? Also, I note your extreme defensiveness and hostility toward me in…

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I’m offended that you defend eating meat

Question: I would just like to say that I am a Christian and a vegetarian.  I was kind of offended by your defending of eating meat.  You made it sound like anyone who doesn’t eat meat is ridiculous.  And your implication that vegetarianism is a departure from Christianity is very wrong and offensive.  I also don’t think…

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Evidence that meat is acceptable food offends a reader

Question: It is very strange for you to promote the most horrible farm animals’ suffering by support meat/dairy/egg consumption in our society of factory farms and meatpacking plants where terrified, trembling animals are on one side and cut up meat comes out from another side! Your messages are the reason why so many people want…

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Does Abel’s sacrifice prove meat was eaten before the flood?

Question: I read your article on Jesus eating meat. You make the point that God gave plants to be eaten in the beginning. Then you state that was changed at the Ark. However, Abel was a keeper of sheep (Genesis 4:2) and he sacrificed the sheep with the fat (Genesis 4:4). Though it is not…

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Isn’t vegetarianism the ideal for man?

Question: Hello. I recently read your article and was very intrigued at your points of view. I would like for you to address two points for me: First of all, the Lord’s prayer says, “on earth as it is in heaven.” The Garden of Eden was the perfect creation. There was no sin at all.…

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Was Jesus a Vegetarian? Did Jesus Eat Meat?

by Jeffrey W. Hamilton On March 17, 1999, the Omaha World-Herald reprinted a hilarious article by Bill Broadway of the Washington Post. It seems the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have launched a campaign to claim that Jesus was a vegetarian. Billboards stating “Jesus was a vegetarian. Show respect for God’s creatures…

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Animal Rights and the Bible

by Darryl G. Treat (With special thanks to Jeff Hamilton and Dana Treat) Is it morally wrong to hunt, kill and eat animals?  Do you or someone you know believe that it is?  Some animal rights activists have even made the claim that Jesus was a vegetarian, and in order to show respect for God’s…

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