XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.california   
      
   On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:16:41 -0100, dh@. wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:34:07 -0700 (PDT), billyquealy   
   > wrote:   
   >>______________________________   
   >>Garden of Eden (protection in balance) was destroyed by same selective   
   >>taking of knowledge   
   >>of good and evil,  reasons for eatting meat conveniently ,   
   >   
   >Genesis 4   
   >3    In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil   
   >as an offering to the LORD.   
   >4    But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his   
   >      flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,   
   >5    but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain   
   >      was very angry, and his face was downcast.   
   >   
   >Genesis 9   
   >1    Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful   
   >      and increase in number and fill the earth.   
   >2    The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the   
   >earth   
   >      and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves   
   >along   
   >      the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given   
   >into   
   >      your hands.   
   >3    Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I   
   >gave   
   >      you the green plants, I now give you everything.   
   >4    "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.   
   >5    And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will   
   >demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too,   
   >      I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.   
   >   
   >Exodus 12   
   >1    The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,   
   >2    "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of   
   >      your year.   
   >3    Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this   
   >      month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each   
   >      household.   
   >[...]   
   >6    Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when   
   >      all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them   
   >      at twilight.   
   >7    Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides   
   >      and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the   
   >      lambs.   
   >8    That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire,   
   >      along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.   
   >9    Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over   
   >      the fire-head, legs and inner parts.   
   >[...]   
   >14  "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come   
   >you   
   >      shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD -a lasting   
   >ordinance.   
   >   
   >Leviticus 1   
   >1    The LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of   
   >Meeting.   
   >      He said,   
   >2    "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `When any of you brings   
   >an   
   >      offering to the LORD, bring as your offering an animal from   
   >either   
   >      the herd or the flock.   
   >3    "`If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to   
   >offer   
   >      a male without defect. He must present it at the entrance to the   
   >Tent   
   >      of Meeting so that it[1] will be acceptable to the LORD.   
   >4    He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it   
   >will   
   >      be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.   
   >5    He is to slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and then   
   >Aaron's   
   >      sons the priests shall bring the blood and sprinkle it against   
   >the   
   >      altar on all sides at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.   
   >6    He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.   
   >7    The sons of Aaron the priest are to put fire on the altar and   
   >arrange   
   >      wood on the fire.   
   >8    Then Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, including   
   >the   
   >      head and the fat, on the burning wood that is on the altar.   
   >9    He is to wash the inner parts and the legs with water, and the   
   >priest   
   >      is to burn all of it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an   
   >offering   
   >      made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.   
   >   
   >Leviticus 12   
   >6    " 'When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are   
   >over,   
   >      she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of   
   >Meeting a   
   >      year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove   
   >for   
   >      a sin offering.   
   >7    He shall offer them before the LORD to make atonement for her,   
   >and   
   >      then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood. "   
   >'These are   
   >      the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a   
   >girl.   
   >8    If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two   
   >young   
   >      pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin   
   >offering. In this   
   >      way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be   
   >clean.' "   
   >   
   >Deuteronomy 12   
   >15  Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your   
   >      towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were   
   >      gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your   
   >      God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean   
   >      may eat it.   
   >   
   >Deuteronomy 14   
   >4    These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the   
   >      goat,   
   >5    the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex,   
   >      the antelope and the mountain sheep.   
   >6    You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and   
   >      that chews the cud.   
   >7    However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof   
   >      completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the   
   >      coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split   
   >      hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.   
   >8    The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does   
   >not   
   >      chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their   
   >      carcasses.   
   >9    Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that   
   >has   
   >      fins and scales.   
   >10  But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat;   
   >      for you it is unclean.   
   >11  You may eat any clean bird.   
   >12  But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black   
   >vulture,   
   >13  the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon,   
   >14  any kind of raven,   
   >15  the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,   
   >16  the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,   
   >17  the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,   
   >18  the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.   
   >19  All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them.   
   >20  But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.   
   >21  Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an   
   >      alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may   
   >sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your   
   >      God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.   
   >   
   >1 Kings 8   
   >5    and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had   
      
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