In the Ethiopic Book of Enoch it is precisely because humans and other animals have not been living in peace with one another, and instead have been killing each other, that God decides to cleanse the earth of its killers. All bloodshed is forbidden, whether of other animals or other humans. And because the creatures created by God have broken the vegetarian covenant of Gen. 1: 29-30, a covenant made with all animals, not just with human flesh, they were deemed by God to deserve to be destroyed.  Isaiah 1 connects the animal sacrifices, and not homosexuality, with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Plato recapitulating Solon's information on Atlantis said they fell because they "mingled with mortality," which is not really a euphemism, but an accurate description of eating death, that is, the corpses of murdered animals.

   Moreover, to the vegetarian Ezekiel, the above distinctions claiming one could eat flesh drained of its blood are the straining of gnats while swallowing a camel.  While carnivores no doubt sought ways in which to lessen their anxiety, depression and despair, hoping that they would not have to relinquish their addiction to eating flesh, the history of the Jewish people in the Old Testament is for the most part extremely morbid and depressing. When happiness does occur in the Torah, it is very short-lived.
 

     Orthodox rabbis admit that the original dietary covenant written in Genesis 1: 29-30 was vegetarian, yet then without justification assert that shortly thereafter Abel's sacrificed cattle were accepted by God, as was the covenant God described to Noah sanctioning the infliction of dread and terror upon other creatures.

    Anyone having taken a class in logic, or with common sense, for that matter, sees that it's not logical to command vegetarianism, and then immediately to accept sacrificed animals from Abel and reject Cain's offerings of vegetation.

   Obviously the scriptures were rewritten, and most cultures like that of the Jews leave rather glaring evidence that they have been revised, as has been demonstrated on this site.

   Originally Abel, the first well-documented killer in the Bible, was seen as evil and his name itself represented evil and is in fact the root of our word evil.  See on this web site:

  One of the places where the fallen angels are imprisoned is called Abelsjail in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch. The angels were condemned to suffer in fire because they introduced animal sacrifices, bloodshed in general, weaponry, mining, cosmetics, writing.
 

   So, John of Patmos analyzed the fact that orthodox Judaism brought immense agony to the sphere of the earth because of its animal sacrifices, and because it accepted the obviously fabricated covenant of carnivorism with Noah, instead of the immense joy that was brought to the creatures of the world by the Lord of the Sabbath affirming vegetarianism in Gen. 1: 29-30, and therefore affirming peace for all creatures in creation and the divine law.  As a number of Old Testament prophets state of the peaceful time to come, when no creature feels sorrow, death or mourning,  when animal sacrifices are abolished in all its forms, such as hunting and fishing, then finally "none shall make them afraid."
 

      The publishing of the Dead Sea Scrolls finally helps resolve many of the mysteries of the Old Testament.  For those of us who found it hard to believe that the very same Moses who fasted from all animal foods for forty days later initiated animal sacrifices, we have the delight of discovering fragments such as "The Words of Moses" and the "Prayer of Joshua" describing Moses and Joshua respectively as vegetarian.  What Amos and Jeremiah affirmed, that false prophets and scribes had changed the scriptures, is being documented in our very time, and the Dead Sea Scrolls clarify and help elaborate on the deceptions promoted by the revisers of scripture.

    In a sense, it is no small wonder that cattle raiser industrialists like the patriarchs who no doubt governed the rewriting of the scriptures left any affirmations of vegetarianism in the scriptures at all, yet they did.  But the majority of Jews, after they had fallen from vegetarianism and egalitarianism didn't hearken to the positive transformation of either vegetarianism or egalitarianism.  A minority would periodically be influenced by a prophetic voice hearkening them back to purity.  This is what occurred during the emergence of each of the later prophets, and during the gathering together of groups during the time of Jesus, James, Peter, Matthew, groups affirming vegetarianism, and unanimously advocating egalitarianism towards humans.
 

     In the Old Testament and New, flesh is described as the garment of spirit.  Certainly the garments of the Old Testament priests are not sparkling white as are the garments of those who share in the purity of heaven on earth in the "Book of Revelations:"

The Lord gave full vent to his wrath, he poured out his hot anger; and he kindled a fire in Zion, which consumed its foundations.  4: 11.

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.  4: 13.

They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.  4: 14.

"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.  Outside...are murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood."  Rev. 22:14-15.

 "Round the  throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clad in white garments, with golden crowns upon their heads." 4:4.

"After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands." 7:9.

"and his Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to be clothed with fine linen, bright and pure"--for fine linen is the righteous deed of the saints.'

"For unto us a child is born, etc."

However, the scripture praising and prophesying the abolition of animal sacrifices immediately preceding it is purposely deleted.

"...and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire," Isaiah, 9: 5

 'If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches with his skirt bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy?"  The priests answered, "No."

     James, brother of Jesus Christ, was the head or bishop of the religious community in Jerusalem after the death of Jesus.  He is virtually unheard of and unresearched in orthodox religious history for a very good reason: he was a vegan, an Essene in his values, a proponent of no sacrifice, one who respected all creatures, and perhaps the very Teacher of Righteousness which the writings of the Essenes extol.  James ate no animal food, Eusebius tells us in his Ecclesiastical History, and wore linen, as a strict vegan would, and as many contemporary vegans do, that is wear cotton, from which linen is made, instead of animal skins.  From Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History:

"Control of the Church passed to the apostles, together with the Lord's brother James, whom everyone from the Lord's time till our own has called the Righteous, for there were many Jameses, but this one was holy from his birth; he drank no wine or intoxicating liquor and ate no animal food (emphasis mine); no razor came near his head; he did not smear himself with oil, and took no [public] baths.  He alone was permitted to enter the Holy Place, for his garments were not of wool, but of linen.

He used to enter the Sanctuary alone....Because of his unsurpassable righteousness he was called the Righteous...Bulwark of the People."  Pp. 99-100. Ecclesiastical History II. xxiii, Eusebius.  Translated by G.A. Williamson. Augsburg Publishing House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1953.

     We see purity honored in "Revelations" when John venerates creation, and acknowledges that Deity loves all creatures.

 "Worthy art thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created." 4: ll.

"And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all therein, saying, "To him who sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!"'

"death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." 21:4.

    In any case in the description of the New Jerusalem in Revelations 22:2-3 we have the abolition of the curse against animal creation, and a return to the vegetarian covenant of Genesis, and to the true tree of life, which is also seen in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, a tree which was to feed not only humans, but all animal creation:

 "the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  There shall no more be anything accursed..."

     And remember, if you believe a god of love wants bloodshed, you will certainly be inclined to believe the parallel absurdities that industry, which oppresses, enslaves, and kills animals, and pollutes our earth, air, and water, is involved with progress, in spite of the fact that industry has created far more diseases than it has cured; that governments, that subdue others rather than living with them in an egalitarian manner, care for you, in spite of the fact that the rich are the governors of the poor in all industrial cultures.  The rich are those who by definition do not love their neighbors as themselves. If all are not equal, then all are not loving.  And the power of those who are the greatest of those not loving others as equals, namely the rich, must be eliminated if there is to be peace on earth. And there will be no peace on earth for humans if there is not peace on earth for all creatures.  For those who are imperialistic towards other creatures are by their nature imperialistic towards their own kind.

     To those who argue that the vegetarian way is intolerant towards carnivorism, the reply is this: it is the carnivore who is intolerant of the life of God's creatures. Those who desire anything less than peace for all creatures, desire the demonic.  The divine is infinite in its love.  The demonic is not; it was the demonic that said humans are the favorite creature of Deity and other creatures are meant to be used by humans. This very attitude exemplifies the Fall, which is equivalent to the same elitism of the Fallen Angels.  And all humans who believe that other animals are here to please the will of humans follow the way of the Demons, the Fallen Angels.

      Carnivorism has nothing to do with true religion acknowledging a creator of infinite love, but, as all know who have studied demonology, everything to do with the demonic.  Causing suffering for an animal by slavery, coercing an animal, hurting it, killing it, bloodily rending apart its body, are all actions calculated to attract the most negative vibrations in the universe--our religious heritage calls those entities devils.  If everyday you eat the flesh of slain beasts, almost all of whom have been enslaved in factory farms which are the equivalent of the medieval torture chambers, your body, comprised of the slaughtered flesh or numerous beings, is certainly a temple to Deity but to Demons, and no appeal to whatever authority can make that wrong right.