Why did God give people permission to eat meat?
People are not always ready to live up to God’s highest ideals. By the time of Noah, humanity had degenerated greatly. “And God saw the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth” (Gen. 6:12). People had sunk so low that they would eat a limb torn from a living animal. As a concession to people’s weakness, permission to eat meat was then given: Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Gen.
