Jesus ate more than fish. Every Jew had to partake in passover lamb supper. They ate lamb. Jesus was no different. He was the lamb of the passover, yet he ate lamb. It was a command from God to do so. You had no option to be a vegetarian in Israel.
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb [a] for his family, one for each household. 4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire—head, legs and inner parts. 10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.
I think it illustrates that God is concerned more with our spiritual health than with our physical one.
Furthermore, Biblically, I don't see kosher laws pertaining to eating that were established prior to covenant with Moses. Quite the opposite:
Genesis 9
3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
6 "Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made man.
So the requirements since flood till Israel were... don't kill and eat people, and don't kill and eat anything that is pregnant. I don't see where anybody would devolve that after the flood the kosher laws were in effect. Are there any verses that would provide that proof?
P.S. I am myself a vegetarian, and I strongly believe that killing animals for food was not a part of God's original plan. But the death around us is to be a constant reminder that we are not in a perfect world.
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