Ok, I did my own research, & asked a vegan Christian & this is my response:
"First of all it doesn't say ALL animals. It says billions.
"Despite having the same capacity to suffer, farmed animals such as pigs, sheep, cows and chickens are denied the protection of animal cruelty laws that protect dogs and cats. This means that it is legal to cause suffering to animals raised for food. This includes painful surgical mutilations (without pain relief) and in most cases intensive and unnatural overcrowding or confinement.
There are over 500 million animals confined like this in factory farms in Australia today. These are places where thinking, feeling animals are considered little more than production units. Factory farming practices have been developed at minimum cost to the producer, and at great expense to the animals.
Pigs are argued to be one of the smartest species outside the primate family, yet in factory farms, mother pigs may legally be confined in barren metal cells so small that they cannot even turn around. They endure the trauma of having their babies torn from them and watch on helplessly as their piglets' teeth are painfully clipped, their tails are cut off, and the males are castrated—all without pain relief.
Cows raised for dairy may also have their tails cut off, and male calves grown for their meat suffer castration without anaesthetic. But that's not all. Calves may be 'disbudded'—a process in which the sensitive horn tissue is scraped out of their skulls or burnt with a hot iron. Cattle that are not 'disbudded' as calves may face having their horns painfully cut off prior to transport. There are also up to one million cattle in feedlots in Australia, kept in groups in pens and fed high protein grain diets and denied any opportunity to graze.
Chickens often have the tips of their beaks cut off with a hot bladebefore being crammed into battery cages where they spend their lives in a space smaller than the size of one A4 sheet of paper. Unwanted male chicks are gassed or ground up alive. Hens raised for meat spend their six-week lives stuffed in sheds at 20 birds per square metre. Bred to grow at 3 times their natural rate, they suffer crippling, broken bones, lameness and even death from heart failure."
"God put animals on this Earth to be part of his creation, not for the sole purpose of filling our stomachs and covering our skin. Genesis chapter one verse 29 God grants man the right to eat all green plants and fruits and seeds. He grants this not just to man but to all creatures. God does grants the Dominion over animals in Genesis chapter one verse 28. He does not however grant the eating of any meat until Genesis chapter 9 after the great flood and he grants it to Noah. Therefore our dominion and our right to eat meat are two very different concepts. More to the point God granted the eating of plants and the dominion of animals before the fall, but didn’t grant meat until after the fall. The eating of meat is nothing more than an extension of our sinful life. Just because God granted us the right does not mean that he approves. After the flood also granted us the right to continue our existence without ever destroying man in such a ay ever again, that does not mean that God will approve of us, just that he won’t destroy us like he did. But I digress.
In The book of Isaiah chapter 11 we are given a glimpse of what the New Earth will look like. Isaiah says: “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearlings together; and the little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the vipers nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the world will be full of the knowledge of the LORD.”
So you see in the new creation God says there will be no slighter of animal nor human, we will be vegan as we were in the beginning before the fall. God may not condemn man for eating meat, but it should be our Christian duty to be vegan now. Because we are the Kingdom now on Earth with Christ at our lead. And if we are to be vegan in the End, then Vegan we should be now. Because how can we be a light to the world if we continue to case our lives of the senseless cruelty and abuse of creatures who like it or not are part of God’s Creation. Those christians who judge veganism clearly have not read enough of their Bible. Other wise they would see that God takes pleasure in no death. Not human, not animal. Love is the way. And vegans are just ahead of the game and are capable of loving more than our own kin.
Also it is worth mentioning that not a single time in the new testament is it mentioned that Christ ate meat. I can’t prove that he was vegan/ vegetarian. But the only thing that comes close is when he feed 5000 with bread and fish, although the greek word used more accurately means “fish-weed” a see weed commonly eaten on those shores. Thought that might be worth mentioning."
And with so many options for food and clothes that causes no suffering to animals, why as compassionate human beings would we prefer to choose to continue choosing options that involve death?"
