Sabbath, 12/05/09 @10:29 AM EST USA
I just read Genesis 1:29 and realized that God gave us the plants to eat - not the animals. I think that means we are supposed to be vegetarian - not meat eaters!? No?? Look at what the passage says and you decide. As for me I am leaning toward the side of being a vegetarian.

Genesis 1:26-30

26. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27. So God created man in his own image,
         in the image of God he created him;
         male and female he created them.

28. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29. Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

30. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

In verses 26-28 God tells us He created us in His image and that we are allowed dominion over all of the living creatures (animals).
However, in v. 29 God tells us we are allowed to eat every seed-bearing plant as well as every seed bearing fruit.
In v. 30 God tells us that what He has done is good.

I looked for where we are told that we are allowed to eat meat - and I only just started looking - but I did not find it. As far as I know, we are truly supposed to be vegetarians. Actually all of mankind, since this is God's Holy Word for all of mankind, but only believers live by faith.