[HarleyD]

Killing animals for food is also a sign of our corruption. God gave man plants as "meat." It is only after the Fall that we begin to eat animals, and animals each other.

What nonsense. God told Noah and his descendants to go eat animals just like the plants:

Gen 9:3 "Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.

[1000 silverlings]

I hope we are not going to have a food fight

[kosta50]

What nonsense. God told Noah and his descendants to go eat animals just like the plants:

Double nonsense. God told Adam OTHERWISE!

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat [Gen 1:29].

And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.[Gen 1:30]

Seems to me the Scripture says that God INTENDED man and animals to eat herbs for meat.

Noah is post-Fall. You need to reset your clock. Also re-read what I posted: I said pre-Fall.

As someone already suggested on this thread: try reading (and understanding) Scripture rather than prooftexting it.

[Agrarian]

"What nonsense. God told Noah and his descendants to go eat animals just like the plants"

Um, that was after the Fall. Check out what God said to Adam and Eve before the Fall. I think that was Kosta's point. We Orthodox remember this during all of our fasting days and seasons, in which we eat nothing that comes from an animal. (But does that lamb ever taste good on Pascha after being without meat for nearly two months!)