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Ethical in what sense? We were given any moving thing that lives. Gen 9:3
I believe God wants us to eat meat.
God only allows humans to eat meat after the Noahide covenant. Before that animals are reserved for burnt offerings. Adam is almost certainly a vegetarian, at least while he lives in the garden. Thus eating meat is another sign of our fall away from grace.
Beyond Christianity there is the inconvenient fact that my lying eyes (and other senses) tell me that animals are like me and experience pain and pleasure and have some form of consciousness. I don't think it's correct to eat human babies for meat, even though they are objectively less conscious than me, nor do I think it's okay to eat retards, who will never be as conscious as me. Without some arbitrary human/animal distinction (which is one of the flaws of christianity IMO) I don't think you can justify one and not the other, at least in my opinion.
Yes, we're given meat after the fall and the flood. I don't think eating meat is necessarily a sign of our fall, it's a component of the new covenant. A gift from God to his people.
I like animals and hope they have happy lives, especially the tasty ones. There would be very few domestic animals if humans didn't eat them.
I'm not sure I'd describe the distinction between humans and animals as arbitrary. Man created in God's image to rule over animals.
Christ eats fish, I'd like to think that if he didn't eat lamb at passover someone would have noted it or asked why.
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