I’m a member of the LDS faith, and we are also told in our ‘restored gospel’ to eat fruits and herbs as our primal diet. We believe the Bible also to be the Word of God, but we have additional advise from our leaders today that tells us meat (animal flesh) is to be used as a secondary food – to eat it sparingly – only for times of famine, winter, and starvation.

Perhaps this is why God told Noah’s family to eat the meat – there were no trees with fruit, and no plants and vegetables to eat after the great flood. Maybe it is better to eat an animal in extenuating circumstances rather than starve to death. What do you think?

Anyway, God is our Creator and I think we all know that the best and most nutritious food is fresh fruit and wonderful raw, vegetables foods. Cooking makes food taste really great sometimes (mom’s apple pie), but heat also destroys many of the nutrients, ruins the oils, and kills all the enzymes. And of course, Life Force is no longer present in the food.

Our best food is food right from the garden in its perfect state – raw, just as God made it and revealed in Genesis 1:29. When we serve our body with awesome fruits, veggies, and the wonderful whole grains, then we are able to serve our fellowmen and serve our Savior with strength and health, and hopefully long life.

Thanks for your site.
Steve

Although, I do have one addition:

We were, in fact, created with the instruction to eat plants, and that’s fact.

The most important thing, though, is that God did not give Man the isntruction to eat meat until AFTER the Flood.

“And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon
every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes
of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving
thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green
herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life
thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
Genesis 9:2-4, KJV

This also means that man and animals were companions compared to today, where animals live in fear of human dominance.

Assuming that food was now harder to come by since Life as they knew it had been destroyed on Earth, Noah and his family were probably told they had dominion over animals and were allowed to eat meat to survive.

Whatever reasons God had, it’s told in the bible as well that it is not a sin. Romans states that neither meat eaters nor vegetarians shall judge eachother.

Romans 14:2-3 (English-NIV)

2
One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
3
The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him.

Although many readers now know the health problems with eating meat (and Dairy!!!), according to the Bible, man has the choice, and neither should tell eachother what to do.

I believe the healthiest thing to do is eliminate meat from the human diet, but again it’s a personal choice.

For people who have ethical problems with meat eating (I hear ya!) take comfort in God’s promise – he states that one day everything shall be restored…

This means that people will walk with animals, with no fear, and the earth will return to it’s natural state – where everything eats plants! Indeed, the lion shall lay down with the lamb – because the latter will no longer wish to eat prey such as innocent livestock.

The world’s definitely not perfect, but just stick to what you know is right in your heart. Change will come, and the best thing you can do is just try to openly show God’s initial plan for humankind, and when people are ready, they will accept it.

I’d recommend taking a look at this site if you want to look farther into it. It has some good points.. —>

http://www.heaven.net.nz/answers/answer16.htm

But, the bible does say this:
Proverbs 12:10(NIV):
A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

This clearly says that we should be kind to and care for our animals- whether its a cow or a puppy dog. And, when we look at how livestock and such are treated today, it’s definitely not bible-abiding!

I know many of them will hunt deer just so they can brag about killing a buck with however many points on it. Then they feed their fat bellies until they’re fully engorged while sitting around talking about how the country has gotten so immoral because of homosexuality and whatever else THEY don’t do.(supposedly) Yeah, I’m pretty sure the Bible also says something about pride and gluttony along with the whole ‘don’t kill’ and ‘don’t lie down with another man’ thing.

Anyway, I think we’re probably allowed to eat animals but only if they’ve already died on their own or have been killed by another animal. And I think maybe it’s only as a last resort if nothing else is available. Something about the second highlighted passage on here is interesting though. It says God gave every green plant for food to the beasts and birds. But obviously many of them are carnivores. Anybody have a theory on that?

And I do know the effects of Beef… VERY poor!! Our bodies act like it just ingested poison, and it takes at least 3 days to digest! ;(

But fish… I know that in the Bible days, people ate fish, and Jesus ate fish, and that we are not suppose to eat shellfish (metal-eating bottom dwellers)… but what fish CAN we eat???

If you even KNOW where to point me I’d appreciate it. I study the Bible, but that doesn’t give me clear pictures or names of fish, being as fish from the store doesn’t have scales or fins to tell it by, according to God’s word.

Thanks for your site!!

I think it was in Leveticus or so, that he said about “w/ such and such hooves, you may eat, but not….” and such a such fish w/out scales..” or such…
But goodness- when I buy fish, I don’t know what kind of scales or fins it DID have before I purchased it. ;(