Are you aware that about half of the original twelve apostles were fishermen? They made their living catching fish to sell as food. Christ even helped them with their catches several times. Fish IS meat, isn't it? Nothing in any of your arguments is Scriptural. If your conscience will not allow you to partake of meat, then be a vegan. I really don't care. I doubt anyone else would care either. But, for you to condemn people for eating meat is just wrong.
The fishermen identified a need then. As did Noah after the flood, as the plants would have been non edible ones I would imagine and the soil unsuitable for crops.
It is not wrong to identify current western standards and the lack of compassion, religious or not.
A poem for you.
Vegetarian
I scan the grocery isles, vibrant colours abound, shapes crafted from above, a synergy between sun and earth a creative dream.
A synergy that allows blossom to fruit, for seeds to germinate and sprout. Cookbook pages will morph me into a composer of this symphony, sweet music I will make.
A move down the butcher’s isle polystyrene and cling wrap meet my gaze. Crafting of butchers knife, fall of blade the creative cut. The colours have become like child’s plasticine all molded into reddish brown.
The chill sends a shiver down my spine, the whiff of bleach tickles my nostrils, all that is absent is the morgue toe tag.
Justification escapes me, life saving need has been replaced by life loving want. We hunt and gather no more, evolution has put paid to this bygone endeavour
the spear and snare replaced by trolley and till.
Karma plants its seeds just below the surface never letting us escape from reaping what we sew.
