But What’s Wrong With Meat?

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the Garden was the food man’s wants required. God gave man no permission to eat animal food until after the Flood. Everything had been destroyed, and therefore the Lord gave Noah permission to eat of the clean animals which he had taken with him into the ark. But animal food was not the most healthful article of food for man. After the Flood the people ate largely of animal food.LASW 127.3

He permitted that long-lived race to eat animal food to shorten their sinful lives. Soon after the Flood the race began rapidly to decrease in size and in length of years. ^{6Counsels on Diet and Foods, 373.} Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat. ^{7Counsels on Diet and Foods, 384.}LASW 127.4