Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for health, not for the environment - just because I didn't believe in killing animals to eat them.
Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
I became a vegetarian at age 13 because I was into animal issues and felt like it was kinder not to eat animals.
The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?