Eating meat in 1st world countries is usually gluttony.

"Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." [11]I think God made it clear we were supposed to be herbivores. Also, the many references in the Bible comparing humans as sheep. I don't recall sheep hunting in packs, killing, and eating large herbivores. In fact, a false prophet is compared to a ravenous wolf. [12] Wolves eat meat, sheep don't. People look for extraordinary miracles. Yet, most of the Bible is ordinary happenings. "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for God's temple is sacred, and you together are that temple." [13]As you can see people are destroyed by God for destroying God's temple. In this case destroying the temple via gluttony. God destroys the person via obesity, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Another way to put this is to destroy your body is test God. Eating a bunch of junk food is little different than attempting to jump off a cliff. I mean if you want the logical and scientific route as to why your body is destroyed just look up heterocyclic amines, intramyocellular lipids, saturated fat and blood viscosity, cholesterol, and so forth. "Gluttony is defined as "habitual greed or excess in eating." Now, I am a meat-eater, but I dont eat out of habit, nor am i eating too much (im 16 and ony weigh 51). I would expect much of the population shares substainal common ground with me. Therefore, when first world people eat meet, it does not match up with the definition of gluttony."Billjunior How much meat do you think we need? We don't need any! Any amount of meat eating in today's world of superabundance is gluttony. "I may agree that eating meat is greedy, as in doing so, we are using up resources that could be used to end world hunger, but it wouldn't be gluttonous, per se." Billjunior You admit yourself that eating meat is greedy, yet how is this not gluttonous? People seem to mindlessly consume copious amounts of meat. If you watch the Forks over Knives diet we are eating way more meat than we did in the 50s. Americans have idolized meat, their God is their belly. God is destroying them for their sin.People seem to think when God acts that its all miracles, yet personally I've never witnessed a miracle I recognized. By their very nature miracles are extremely rare. "Also, god permitted meat-eating in the days of jesus- didn't he give a thousand people bread and fish or something? Fish is meat, so why would jesus give people meat is it was soo bad?" Billjunior That was back like 2,000 years ago or so. That fish wasn't factory farmed. Neither was it gathered by industrial trawlers. Back then, they didn't have the superabundance associated with 1st world countries of today. Do you not see there is vast differences between a few events in the Bible feeding a relatively small amount of people, compared to millions of 1st world citizens mindlessly consuming fish from industrial trawlers. How far can we stray from the Lord without dire consequences? We can't go back to the garden of Eden, but we can abstain from eating meat. We can incorporate more fruit into our diets. Thanks for debating. Sources11. https://www.biblegateway.com...12. http://biblehub.com...13. http://biblehub.com...14. http://www.forksoverknives.com...