# Did Jesus eat red meat

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-jesus-eat-red-meat/6900
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 17, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-jesus-eat-red-meat/6900 "2000-01-17T14:34:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![RobRoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ba0ec/32.png) [@RobRoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobRoy)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2000, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-jesus-eat-red-meat/6900/21 "2000-02-07T05:55:00Z")

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> Originally posted by davejam:  
> \*\*All -  
> I have an ongoing debate with my boss. He claims to be a Vegitarian  
> but does eat seafood. His logic is that “Christ fed the masses with fish  
> and since he was perfect, it’s okay to eat fish”
> 
> Is there any evidence in any scripture of Christ eating any non-seafood  
> meats?
> 
> Thanks  
> Dave From Arlington, Va.\*\*

Jesus ate meat, the Buddha died from a piece of bad duck.

Get a new boss.

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### Author: ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-jesus-eat-red-meat/6900/22 "2000-02-08T00:41:00Z")

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The doctrine of Transubstantiation has not changed. (Fish on Friday, on the other hand, was never doctrine.)

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John W. Kennedy  
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”  
– Charles Williams

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