Why do some religions refuse to eat meat?

Question

I am diversified. And I like to understand other cultures.

Answer 1

I don't know. Maybe they think that animals has life and plants don't. Animals knows fear and pain. It seems inhuman to eat meat.

Answer 2

Well, this is a difficult question to answer, but a little understandingof many cultures around the world will help to clear it up.

For thousands of years, cultures (and religions) have had rules concerning what is proper/improper for someone to do. This concept is called "ritual purity", and it deals with etiquette and things that are okay for a person to do. An example would be the following: you are eating a steak covered in steak sauce and on the side, you have a pile of corn. A few pieces of corn fall onto the steak. You get annoyed, because having corn in the place that you don't want is not what you are used to, as trivial as it may be. Also, if you don't like to walk in spittle on the sidewalk, this is a retained (yet on a very small scale) behavior from the days of ritual purity.

Answer 3

In mother nature, there're herbivores and carnivores. Herbivores have molars for chewing and their intestines are longer, so as to enable them to have sufficient time to benefit from their vegetarian diet.

Mother nature however, has provided carnivores with incisors for tearing flesh from bones. They therefore have much shorter intestines, so their meat diet could be very quickly evacuated from the body before it foments and cause ill health.

Humans are made with molars and very long intestines.

So many religions, for health reasons, refuse to eat meat. Just like some do not eat pork for health reasons - look up the word "trichina", and you'll have a better understanding.

Some religions (and philosophies) also believe, ALL life forms will eventually become human. They therefore consider meat producing animals as very high in the stage of evolution, having already gone through the other two kingdoms - mineral and plant - just like human beings.

Humanity evolves with each passing age. It is not without reason therefore, you see many people on a health kick, as we move from the Piscean to the Aquarian age.

Peace,
Gondarite

Answer 4

Religions do not eat anything-- religions do not have mouths.

Some people of various religions do not eat meat because they believe it alters their ""Macasa"" and makes them less spiritual.

If you are diversified I hope you are speaking of your investments.
You had better look that word up in a dictionary too.

((I truly do expect to get much static because I am not being loving and otherwise POLITICALLY CORRECT))

Answer 5

Some do not believe in eating certain kinds of meat because they follow the laws of the Old Testament when God commanded them to stay away from unclean animals. Most do not eat any meat that is not fully cooked because it is written in the Bible to abstain from eating the "life blood" of animals. Others believe they should not eat meat because of all the growth hormones given to cattle today and they are trying to keep their body pure.

Answer 6

I would too! I think it is silly. I think if some of these religions would do some serious research they might find out that these restrictions are man made not bible requirement. A lot of the things that they do from most religions are not in the bible. I could go all day making a list of silly rituals. Why don't they ever question these things and check it out, Instead they just do it.

Answer 7

Mark 7:15-
" Nothing outside of a man can make him "unclean" by going into him. Rather what comes out of a man makes man 'unclean'"

Romans 14:14-
17-> " For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking,but but of righteousness, peace and joy in the holy Spirit, because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men. Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean,but it is wrong fro a man to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble."

Jews had a lot of rules what comes to food. But after Christ, we are under covenant, and above scripture tells how to go by.

Answer 8

From a Christian.... The old covenent had MANY laws to follow, including ones about what you are allowed to eat. Many of these, looking at them from what we know now, make a LOT of sense. Even today, when you cook pork, you have to be careful as too temprature it gets cooked too. They didn't have thermometers back then!!! This is where the Jewish religion gets many of their food habits from. As for Christians, we have the new covenant with Jesus, and don't have all the old laws that need to be followed.

Answer 9

It's because of the fact that animals are living beings, and in being as such, have souls. Taking the life of an animal, is in turn taking it's soul, which is a sin in almost any culture. It can also be seen as playing God, and being a false idol, which is also a sin.

Answer 10

Because a lot of religions believe that animals and humans are equal and they have the same rights. Some stupid religions believe that humans are superior to animals, and these people need to be slapped. I mean, HELLLLLOOOOOOOOO! Human are animals, der. If you believe that animals and humans have equal rights, or they should at least, then if you think it's okay to eat animals, then you should think it's okay to eat humans. There ya go.