Should we love animals and become vegetarians?

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Feeding our pets first because they cannot delay gratification is part of the Oral Law. There are many things left out of the Written Law according to Jewish teaching. Another thing we owe animals, which is part of the Written Law, is a day of rest on the Sabbath. Now, my cat rests whenever he pleases, and does hardly a stitch of work when he is up and about. However, some dogs (sheep dogs, for example) do work. These animals should rest from their labor when we do. And, as mentioned before, killing animals purely for sport is forbidden.

The separation of meat and milk (products) according to Jewish dietary law is probably one of the most contentious and misunderstood commandments, as well as enormously complicated. You pointed to only one difference in interpretation; there are several, not least being the admonition should not be a part of the Law in the first place.
 
Yes, very similar to Tradition and Scripture in the Catholic Faith, but would that apply if there was not enough to eat? It makes sense if there is enough to eat.

I tried to put a range in the interpretations, but that’s beside the point, which is that the denial of a specific case implies that you can still have it in general. You may not be able to eat beef with cheese, but you can still eat beef, which is the point I was making.
 
It is part of the Benedictine rule unless traveling or in danger.

Also…

Early Christians and other mystics weren’t pigging out like a lot of our culture considers normal today.

Decadence has become the new temperance.

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Preservation of human life and health always comes first, so feeding pets first (or even at all) would probably not apply in such cases. I understand your main point.
 
Fwiw I think Peta is bad and they kill animals.

But I think vegetarianism in our society is a good thing considering how decadent we’ve become.

And we really don’t ‘need’ to kill animals to survive these days… but it is harder to avoid than many people might imagine.
 
Some people may be vegetarian not because they love animals but that they really hate vegetables? 😇
 
But fish is kinda different…what about John the Baptist bugs(locusts) and honey
 
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It’s something I’ve been working on too. Not all together successfully either.

I like to call a vegetarian diet “The Eden Diet” because it was originally what God gave to Adam and Eve. It was before sin entered the world, so I think it was in God’s perfect plan, but mankind has fallen so far since then. And even animals kill each other for food.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to eat meat, because after the Flood, God permitted it.
It’s more a mater of conscience for me. I don’t understand ‘Humane Killing’ because I keep putting myself in the animal’s place and feeling its fear. And then I just can’t eat meat.

I love all creatures, though. I don’t even kill bugs.
 
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I love animals and have no problem eating them. I don’t see the two as mutually exclusive
 
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As much as I love “Tears of Gaia.”
Gotta say
Straight edge not hate edge

Simply because in alot of those things…

often times the ends do not justify the means.
 
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I have exactly the same feelings as you, AutumnSmoke, regarding animals (including bugs as well).
 
not purely for sport… One can love the chase and pursuit of a deer hunt, and hunt primarily for that, but not waste the meat and donate the fresh meat to the poor…
 
This sounds a bit like ends justifying the means. I don’t know about the thrill-of-the-chase justification or multiple motivations. Consult your local rabbi on such thorny issues!
 
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I mean, I am speaking from an RC perspective… But I never knew that Judaism frowned upon hunting- ya learn something new every day.
 
My wife is vegetarian. I am not. I think either lifestyle is perfectly acceptable for a Catholic Christian. One person posted that Man was allowed to eat meat “after the Flood”. There is no way to know when the Flood occurred, but if it was after the dawn of civilization (villages, farming, etc) then Man was certainly eating meat long before that. We should be careful, not to look at the Bible / Genesis as some sort of literal history or science journal.
 
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