People associate vegetarianism with
Hinduism and Buddhism, but ignore that the story of Adam and Eve, which Jews,
Christians and Muslims are familiar with, associates a harmonious society with
a vegetarian diet.
The Bible says that in the days of
paradise God prescribed Adam a vegetarian diet, “I give you every seed-bearing
plant on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it
for food.” Jews and Christians, who regard this book as sacred, eat other
creatures because after the great flood God said to Noah, “Everything that
lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green herbs, I now
give you everything.”
An attentive reader realizes that this
second dietary law allows people to eat whatever creature – including other people
–and that the words: “just as I gave you the green herbs” refers to the first
dietary law. When we read that first passage again, we find that the green
herbs were not given to Adam and Eve, but to the beasts, “And to all the wild
animals on earth, and to all the birds of heaven and all the living creatures
that creep along the ground, all the green herbs I give them as food." With
this second dietary law God tells us that He considers that those who eat other
creatures are not humans, but beasts.
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