On billboards the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are promoting the notion that "Jesus was a vegetarian." Clearly, their main goal is to sway people to their cause, using any means possible.
The Bible has much to say in opposition to this idea, something with more agreement with Science than PETA’s position. Scientific research clearly indicates that people were designed to be omnivores. Our teeth’s composition is not the same as that of herbivores. If humans are omnivores and not herbivores, is it not logical that we were designed to eat meat? Further, from the testimony of Jesus of Nazareth and the apostle Paul we must conclude that the God of the Bible had this in mind when He created humanity. The PETA folks are not biblically ignorant, nor can they knowingly believe that Jesus Christ was a vegeterian.
Jesus prepared and fed meat to his disciples (John:21:9-13 [9] As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
[10] Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
[11] Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
[12] Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
[13] Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
See All...). He multiplied loaves and fish to feed several multitudes (Matthew:14:15-21 [15] And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
[16] But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
[17] And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
[18] He said, Bring them hither to me.
[19] And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
[20] And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
[21] And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
See All..., Matthew:15:32-38 [32] Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
[33] And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
[34] And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
[35] And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
[36] And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
[37] And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
[38] And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.
See All...). PETA's need for promoting their cause blinded them to the plain pronouncements of Scripture. Thus it is with many issues.
See “Was Jesus a Vegetarian? The Billboard Says So! But Was He?” (http://www.bibarch.com/Perspectives/ 2.2.htm#editorial).