Please let it be clear that I am certainly no Christian or Jew, nor do I believe that all must conform to what is written; but, the Universal Laws remain abundantly clear, and those who choose to deviate from them suffer accordingly. (For we pay for our sins in this life: misery, regret, spite, hate, spiritual ignorance, dis-ease and death.)

Relevant passages:

But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it. -- Genesis 9.4-5

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of goats. When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear, for your hands are full of blood. -- Isaiah 1.11,15

It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. -- Leviticus 3.17

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of strangers who sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set My face against that soul that eateth blood. -- Leviticus 17.10

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. -- Isaiah 66.3


And open to no (mis)interpretation whatsoever:

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. -- Genesis 1.29


Unfortunately, modern ignorance reigns supreme, as misguided, deluded individuals choose to pervert these alleged "words of God" to accommodate and justify their own shameful habits. And to add to the delusion, the few, supposedly "pro-meat" passages which appear evident in the Bible are only so due to errors in translation from the Greek into English. Meat, for instance, being translated from trophe, meaning nourishment, and similarly from phago, meaning "to eat." Nowhere in this book of books is meat-eating justified; the eating of flesh is not only morally, ethically and spiritually suicidal, it guarantees decay and a lifespan suitable only to those of the "you have to die of something" mentality.

And like you, grz, I am in no way looking to debate this matter. The passages above speak volumes, and it is entirely up to the individual as to how this information is processed.