Patients often ask me if God wants humans to be vegetarians. The answer is yes and no. Originally, vegetarianism was His design for all people and animals (see Gen. 1:29-30). That plan changed when the Lord said to Noah: " 'Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things,
even as the green herbs' " (9:3, NKJV). The only exception was this: " 'But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood' " (v. 4).
