Biblical Vegetarianism? A Critical and Constructive Assessment

Banning markets for moral reasons: is the abolition of slavery a role model for the future of animal production?

“…A different strain of literature (Beekman, 2000;Horrell, 2008) deals with consumptive freedom and the liberty to eat meat. This corresponds to the argument of slaveholders that their freedom to keep slaves should be protected (McMurry, 1992), and it reminds us that liberty always has two sides.…”

The event of banking

“…This hard-line vegan position is not aligned to by all proponents of Christian vegetarianism, and some posit that we cannot know from scriptural sources if Jesus consumed meat. However, there are solid indications in Scripture pointing to Jesus eating fish (Horrell 2008).…”

Animal welfare: A human right?

“…The idea is that eating animal-based food represents a post-Fall situation for humanity (Gn 9:3), and thus is not the pure Edenic diet that was originally meant for humans to enjoy (Calvert 2008;Wirzba 2019). Such a strict veganism position is not followed by all proponents of Christian vegetarianism, as there are voices in the theological discourse who argue that we do not know from scriptural sources whether Jesus ate meat, but that there are indications that he may have consumed fish (Horrell 2008). Such indications may be drawn from the passages where Jesus feeds the multitudes (e.g.…”