M. JL Esq. wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>
>> What I don't get is calling a meat-free diet a fast. It triggers a
>> language barrier inside my head like calling flesh cut from the bones of
>> an animal that happens to be a fish not meat.
>
> The English word "meat" originally meant any food one ate, not just
> animal flesh.
>
> See Genesis 1:29

Thanks! That puts the modern meat-free interpretation based on a
mistranslation. Interesting.