God wants you to be a vegan

By: Dean Best - 2 May 2007 15:57

God wants you to be a vegan. So claims a book published in the US that says meat is the real forbidden fruit.

Author Jeff Popick cites page one of the Bible in which, he claims, the Lord instructs man to eat “every herb yielding seed…and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree-yielding seed.”

Hence, Popick argues, how can an apple or a fig have led to “man’s downfall”? He passes over the passage in the Bible on the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.

In his book, The Real Forbidden Fruit: How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back, Popick contends that once humans began to eat meat, paradise on Earth was lost. However, we can regain that paradise by becoming vegan again, as we were meant to be.

Meant to be? Without wishing to spark an evolution versus creationism debate on these pages, if we were meant to be vegans, why do humans come with the, well, equipment to eat meat?

From a man described as a “former Hollywood stuntman”, this tome seems nothing more than a crazy stunt.

Comments on this blog post

Regarding your comments on my book "The Real Forbidden Fruit": 1. What passage exactly are you referring to that I "passed over?" While many pure theologians acknowledge that the "Garden of Eden" was vegan, it is a sad reality that most organized religions choose not to teach this. Paradise ended when murder (meat)began, not because of pedantics but because paradise cannot exist when violence and murder are the way of existence. Murder and paradise are antithetical. 2. You also say that humans have "equipment to eat meat?" What equipment is this? The fact is, using 20 specific criteria, the human body is exactly analogous to animals that we know are herbivore. Human physiology is not carnivorous or even slightly omnivorous. Public information is a responsibility which more people ought take seriously. How magnificent a world this would be if we only dealt in facts.

Jeff, United States