"There is a distinct reluctance, almost an unwillingness, on the part of Torah to grant man the privilege to consume meat. Man as an animal-eater is looked at askance by the Torah. There are definitive vegetarian tendencies in the Bible."
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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, The Emergence of Ethical Man, edited by Michael S. Berger (Jersey City: KTAV for The Toras HoRav Foundation, 2005), p. 31.
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