vegetarianism

74:6.3The Adamic chil­dren did not take milk from an­i­mals when they ceased to nurse the mother’s breast at one year of age. Eve had ac­cess to the milk of a great va­ri­ety of nuts and to the juices of many fruits, and know­ing full well the chem­istry and en­ergy of these foods, she suit­ably com­bined them for the nour­ish­ment of her chil­dren un­til the ap­pear­ance of teeth.

76:3.7Up to the time of leav­ing the first gar­den, Adam and his fam­ily had al­ways sub­sisted on fruits, ce­re­als, and nuts. On the way to Mes­o­po­ta­mia they had, for the first time, par­taken of herbs and veg­eta­bles. The eat­ing of meat was early in­tro­duced into the sec­ond gar­den, but Adam and Eve never par­took of flesh as a part of their reg­u­lar diet. Nei­ther did Adam­son nor Eve­son nor the other chil­dren of the first gen­er­a­tion of the first gar­den be­come flesh eaters.

76:4.4Adam and Eve and their first gen­er­a­tion of chil­dren did not use the flesh of an­i­mals for food. They sub­sisted wholly upon “the fruits of the trees.” Af­ter the first gen­er­a­tion all of the de­scen­dants of Adam be­gan to par­take of dairy prod­ucts, but many of them con­tin­ued to fol­low a non­flesh diet. Many of the south­ern tribes with whom they later united were also non­flesh eaters. Later on, most of these veg­e­tar­ian tribes mi­grated to the east and sur­vived as now ad­mixed in the peo­ples of In­dia.

81:1.8It was these en­forced changes in liv­ing con­di­tions which caused such a large pro­por­tion of the hu­man race to be­come om­niv­o­rous in di­etetic prac­tice. And the com­bi­na­tion of the wheat, rice, and veg­etable diet with the flesh of the herds marked a great for­ward step in the health and vigor of these an­cient peo­ples.

52:3.8Prim­i­tive man is for the most part car­niv­o­rous; the Ma­te­rial Sons and Daugh­ters do not eat meat, but their off­spring within a few gen­er­a­tions usu­ally grav­i­tate to the om­niv­o­rous level, al­though whole groups of their de­scen­dants some­times re­main non­flesh eaters. This dou­ble ori­gin of the post-Adamic races ex­plains how such blended hu­man stocks ex­hibit an­a­tomic ves­tiges be­long­ing to both the her­biv­o­rous and car­niv­o­rous an­i­mal groups.

52:3.9Within ten thou­sand years of racial amal­ga­ma­tion the re­sul­tant stocks show vary­ing de­grees of an­a­tomic blend, some strains car­ry­ing more of the marks of the non­flesh-eat­ing an­ces­try, oth­ers ex­hibit­ing more of the dis­tin­guish­ing traits and phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of their car­niv­o­rous evo­lu­tion­ary pro­gen­i­tors. The ma­jor­ity of these world races soon be­come om­niv­o­rous, sub­sist­ing upon a wide range of viands from both the an­i­mal and veg­etable king­doms.

66:4.7In skin color and lan­guage these ma­te­ri­al­ized mem­bers of Cali­gas­tia’s staff fol­lowed the An­donic race. They par­took of food as did the mor­tals of the realm with this dif­fer­ence: The re-cre­ated bod­ies of this group were fully sat­is­fied by a non­flesh diet. This was one of the con­sid­er­a­tions which de­ter­mined their res­i­dence in a warm re­gion abound­ing in fruits and nuts. The prac­tice of sub­sist­ing on a non­flesh diet dates from the times of the Cali­gas­tia one hun­dred, for this cus­tom spread near and far to af­fect the eat­ing habits of many sur­round­ing tribes, groups of ori­gin in the once ex­clu­sively meat-eat­ing evo­lu­tion­ary races.