Since ya want to mention the bible i will too, I'm sweating my ass off though so not going to spend the time looking for passages to quote..nm found em.. First let me say I was a vegetarian for 10 years.. Ok, so anyways,
God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden.
Then God said, ??Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.?
So basically if you actually read through the bible there are passages supporting the idea that god gave man fruit bearing plants and beats to hold dominion over, but as with anything, words can be contorted to have any meaning the reader wishes to have. As far as thou shall not kill, that speaks of human life. ok back to an air conditioned room..