There was a story on 20/20 or one of the other news programs.
I do believe that diet has an effect on health but question vegan diets as not necessarily the healthiest. I think of how the Israelites prepared lamb before their flight out of Egypt by God’s command. Jesus cooked fish on the beach after his resurrection. Did God not promise “a land flowing with milk and honey”?
There is also the story of Daniel who refused the rich fare from the king’s table. He and his companions asked for a vegetarian diet and were healthier than those who feasted with the king. While a totally vegetarian diet is not required for health, meat need not be served for every meal.
Did God not say many things to conced to the hardness of mans heart?
Writing, in confutation of Jovinian, a monk of Milan, who abandoned asceticism, St. Jerome (D. A.V. 440) holds up vegetarianism as the Christian ideal and the restoration of the primeval rule of life. The passage may be rendered :–" As to his argument that in God’s Second Blessing permission was given to eat flesh- a permission not given in the first Blessing- let him know that just as permission to put away a wife was, according to the words of the Saviour, not given from the beginning, but was granted to the human race by Moses because of the hardness of our hearts. So also in like manner the eating of flesh was unknown until the flood, but after the Flood, just as quails were given to the people when they murmured in the desert, so have sinews and the offensiveness of flesh been given to our teeth. The Apostle, writing to the Ephesians, teaches us that God had purposed that in the fullness of time he would restore all things, and would draw to their beginning, even to Christ Jesus, all things that are in heaven or that are on earth. Whence also, the Saviour Himself, in the Apocalypse of John, says, ’ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.’ From the beginning of human nature, we neither fed upon flesh nor did we put away our wives, nor were our foreskins taken away from us for a sign. We kept on in this course until we arrived at the Flood. But after the Flood, together with the giving of the Law, which no man could fulfill, the eating of flesh was brought in; and the putting away of wives was conceded to hardness of heart; and the knife of circumcision is brought into use; as if the hand of God had created in us more than is necessary. But now that Christ has come in the end of time, and has turned, back Omega to Alpha, and drawn back the end to the beginning, neither is it permitted to us to put away our wives, nor are we circumcised, nor do we eat flesh; hence the Apostolic saying, ’ It is a good, thing not to drink wine, and not to eat flesh.’ For wine also, together with flesh, began to be used after the Flood."
