[Savage Beast]

I don't know about Acts 15:20, but my wife and I have been vegetarians for years. How can your learn mercy when your mouth is filled with blood?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You are the first to have that opinion.

While Man is supposed to be steward of this Earth (thus humans should try to be environmentally friendly and not support animal cruelty--as long as those policies are not detrimental to humans and are feasible), animals are not on the level of humans, and the Bible is pretty clear that eating animals after the Flood was acceptable. The Passover lamb was even required, and Christ probably ate lamb (as one of the kind freepers who gave an opinion stated).

The question is what constitutes blood in that verse (Acts 15:20). Is there some way to get rid of every last red blood cell, piece of hemoglobin, even blood plasma from meat?

P.S. Using the scientific (currently scientific) definition of blood, meat juices are not blood. Such juices are produced in the muscle tissue and while it serves a similar purpose to blood in transporting oxygen, it doesn't use hemoglobin, but rather myoglobin.

Another helpful freeper typed how that freeper prayed and asked God to make that freeper's food pure before eating, along with giving a useful verse in Colossians 2.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

P.P.S. While the question is about eating meat, it is also about eating what would normally be considered vegetarian foods which could have become contiminated with trace amounts of blood, such as honey (bee body parts), shellac (used to wax fruit and vegetables--and Mike and Ikes (candy fanatic), gelatin (this usually isn't considered vegetarian), cheese made with rennet, and even foods which could have touched those foods or could have been in the vicinity where air drafts could disperse a few blood cells onto the food (cells from either meat or non-meat products akin to the aforementioned), even omnivorous family members' spit/expectorant which could go into the air via coughing or vigorous yelling, shouting, etc.).