re: If someone burned down a steakhouse because they believe eating animals is murder

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but He gave us the green light to eat meat.

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Not until Genesis 9. After the flood.

Before that He made it very clear that we were to eat plants.

(Just three verses after the one you quoted). "Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you..."

And in Genesis 9—"Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."

Plus, our ideal created environment was a garden.

So it's pretty clear that giving humans permission to eat meat was a concession due to the fall rather than being ideal, and the verse you quoted had nothing to do with us eating animals. If you read the first part of Genesis 9, it reads like a curse, with the animals regarding humans with fear and dread, whereas in the garden they came to Adam to be named.

"Ruling over" doesn't mean abusing at will, or exploiting for amusement, or killing for pleasure. It means that God put humans in charge of animals as a steward over a valuable part of His creation ("God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.")

We were to be to all animals like we only are now to family pets. More like parents than adversaries or cruel masters or exploiters.

We messed that up. It's not something to celebrate or be proud of or lean into, just like polluting the environment that God made for us is not something to be celebrated.