I'm not going to respond to your post, Tom, because it is very confrontational and hostile. There are those of us here who base our lives and our beliefs on the Bible, therefore it shapes what we think. The God of the Bible allows the eating of meat and leaves it up to individuals whether they do or don't. I think what is debated in Christian circles is whether meat-eating was in God's oiginal plan for humans before the fall. That, of course, is of no interest to atheists.