[greenbunny]

Hey GP, Thanks for responding. I think in the circles that I met it had more to do with Genesis. I don't have my bible unpacked so can't give you an exact quote, but in the garden of eden God told Adam and Eve that they could eat every seed bearing fruit and I believe something to do with leaves. They were not allowed to eat animals. It was after they got kicked out that Adam was sentenced to having to sweat and toil for his food and raise it in crops and raise farm animals and Eve was sentenced to painful childbearth. The idea of the Garden of Eden is to enjoy what God gives naturally in the form that God gave it. In order to eat meat we have to cook it - not a free easy gift. The idea is that if you go back to eating the way that God intended originally you will regain the garden of Eden here and now and go back to innocence and a purer relationship with God. Interestingly, every woman that I know that gave birth while on 100% raw delivered painlessly. In terms of deeper truth and the symbolism involved it is a powerful interpretaion of the story. As a mythological, allegorical teaching I see it's truth fully.