Can we eat meat on Easter?

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I have been a cradle Catholic but never really knew about my faith until the last few months when I started studying but on these kinds of things I’m still not the most educated, can we eat meat today on Easter?
 
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You can eat meat everyday except on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and the Fridays of Lent. If you are in the United States, you are called to perform a penitential observance on Fridays outside of Lent. One way to perform a penitential observance is to abstain from meat on Fridays. Others choose to eat meat but do something else, such as by praying more than they normally do, or by doing some additional works of charity.

If there is a solemnity on Friday, such as this upcoming Friday (everyday from Easter Sunday to the 2nd Sunday after Easter is a solemnity; the entire week is called the Octave of Easter), you are not required to do anything as solemnities are the highest ranking liturgical celebrations. They are joyous days and one should indulge in those joyous days, celebrating either the Lord, the Virgin Mary, or some particular Saint. This year, aside from this upcoming Friday, other solemnities that will fall on Friday include the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart (June 19), and Christmas Day.
 
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Yes, you can eat meat at Easter. Indeed, abstinence would be entirely inappropriate for the season. We would normally have a delicious joint of spring lamb at Easter but we didn’t this year due to what’s going on.
 
Mark 7:17-20 17 When he (Jesus) had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable. 18 And He said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” ( Thus He declared all foods clean.) 20 And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
 
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Mark 7:17-20 17 When he (Jesus) had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable. 18 And He said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” ( Thus He declared all foods clean.) 20 And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
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Yes, all scripture is true. However, out of context scripture does not answer the OP’s question. The question was about the timing of fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church, which btw is quite biblical. Christ said when you fast, not if you fast.
 
I respectively and politely disagree with you. Mark 7:17-20 is not of context and does answer the question “Can we eat meat on Easter”. Jesus said: All food, including meat, are clean at all times.

I agree with you that fasting is a biblical concept. You were referring to Matthew 6:16-18

16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

The purpose of fasting is to deny our ourselves, which is mainly through food, but can be through TV, social media, and etc… and, to replace food or time spent eating, with seeking intimacy and wisdom from the Lord through prayer, worship(Prostration), and reading the bible.

If the purpose of fasting is not to seek intimacy and wisdom from the Lord through prayer, worship(Prostration), and reading the bible, then fasting is just a diet or self adoration.
 
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