As Abrahamic religions flourished in deserts, where cultivation of Agricultural products was a rare phenomenon, the scriptures while portraying cultures emphasized on meat consumption.
Thus as per Bilble, when two of Adam’s sons did sacrifice, the sacrifice by the son who sacrificed an animal was accepted over the son who presented some agricultural items as sacrifice.
In Quran, Abraham (AS) brings a roasted calf for the angels who came to give him news about birth of Ishaq (AS).
When Bani Israel demanded for onions, lentils, cucumbers over Man o Salwa (a heavenly dish mainly constituting meat of a desert bird), it was considered as demanding something lower. May be these items are not directly considered as lower than meat, but because they require a person to settle and cultivate lands, while with nomadic style, Man o Salwa was better option which was available without settling at a particular place.
No, I don't think any of the examples you gave make the scriptures necessarily pro-carnivore. There is an example in the Qur'an, when Allah has taken an oath He has mentioned the fig and olive, which as we all know are vegetation and not animals. I don't know of any example where this is done with meat of any animal.
When it comes to anything with food, I've almost always found that dishes containing meat are more appealing than those containing only vegetables. Whenever I order meat at a restaurant, I'll get vegetable or salad on the side with it (without asking) but not the other way around. Regardless of what the exact contents of manna and salwa were, demanding anything less than a heavenly dish would be demanding something lesser than it.
depends on your preferences. a veggie platter is more appealing and meat more repulsive to a vegetarian.
i believe man was a kind of tapioca seeds and salwa was kinda baTer [quail bird].
i don't think scriptures promote meat consumption. as Captain said, Allah swears by names of vegetables and not by animals.as
far as sacrifice is concerned, the blood is the main ingredient in a sacrifice. since veggies dn't have blood, they are not very good candidates for sacrifice.
Hindus who are supposed to be strictly vegetarians, use animals for the sacrifice to Kali Mai. they leave the meat and use blood for their ceremonies.
Muslims are supposed to be semi-vegetarian. They were advised to eat meat like every other day in the days of Umar RA.
They are not supposed to dislike halal/zabiha meat on the other hand.
There are hadiths on it I think. Please search at your leisure.
depends on your preferences. a veggie platter is more appealing and meat more repulsive to a vegetarian.
i believe man was a kind of tapioca seeds and salwa was kinda baTer [quail bird].
i don't think scriptures promote meat consumption. as Captain said, Allah swears by names of vegetables and not by animals.as
*far as sacrifice is concerned, the blood is the main ingredient in a sacrifice. since veggies dn't have blood, they are not very good candidates for sacrifice.
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Hindus who are supposed to be strictly vegetarians, use animals for the sacrifice to Kali Mai. they leave the meat and use blood for their ceremonies.
Is the blood considered main ingredient of sacrifice as per Islamic teachings as well? Any reference from Quran o Hadees?
The food given for sacrifice was not eaten ... It was burnt ... So it meant as far as the people were concerned the food was going to waste ... The people felt the meat is a higher food than the grain ... Not Allah (SWT) ... The offering that is most dear to Allah (SWT) is the one that has sincere sacrifice to Allah (SWT) in the heart of the one giving the offering ... If the one who gave the meat did so with love and duty and the one who had the grain did so with hurt and restraint then the latter's offering is not accepted ... The actual substance is of no import ...
This is a rational mistake made by the former ... That meat being a higher food meant the other sibling had an unfair advantage ... That is the wrong conclusion ... Another rational mistake was the one made by Iblis that he was better because the substance of his being rose up whereas the substance of our being falls deeming him better. This should teach us that our sincerity is the source of our goodness not our ability.