Why is eating meat not mentioned with Adam and Eve, yet Noah was allowed to eat meat? ?

Question

Why did God say, in the creation story, that people should eat plants but he allowed Noah to eat meat?

Answer 1

Weren't Adam and Eve friends with the animals or some such? Until they ate the apple? That's the one part of the Bible that I like. It's probably from Pagan influences.

Answer 2

Because he only ate the clean animals. In Genesis he made the plants and animals for them to eat.

Answer 3

Eating meat only started after they left the Garden.

Answer 4

because long fairy stories often include inconsistencies

Answer 5

Noah was a hungry mother******

Answer 6

Noah had to survive in an inferior post-flood environment.

Answer 7

Using Animals for Food

What, though, of killing animals for food? It is true that man’s original diet was vegetarian. But Jehovah later expanded it to include animal flesh. Some 4,000 years ago—in the days of righteous Noah—Jehovah caused a global deluge and brought an end to the then existing wickedness on earth. Noah, his family, and the living creatures he took into the ark survived the Flood. After they emerged from the ark, Jehovah for the first time stated: “Every moving animal that is alive may serve as food for you. As in the case of green vegetation, I do give it all to you.” (Genesis 9:3) At the same time, however, God gave the law: “Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image he made man.” (Genesis 9:6) Clearly, God did not place animals on the same level as humans.

“Still, why the change in diet?” The earth’s climate evidently had undergone drastic changes because of the Flood. Whether Jehovah introduced the addition of meat to man’s diet because he anticipated the needs of future generations living in the areas where vegetation would be scarce, the Bible does not say. But we need to accept that the Owner of all living things had a right to introduce a change.

Showing Respect for Animal Life

Yet, you may wonder Shouldn’t we at least show some respect for animal life?’ Yes, we should. And the Creator of all things has told us how we may do this. “Only flesh with its soul—its blood—you must not eat,” states his decree at Genesis 9:4. Why the restriction on eating blood? “For the soul [life] of the flesh is in the blood,” says the Bible. (Leviticus 17:10, 11) Jehovah has stipulated: ‘You should pour the blood of the slain animal out upon the ground as water.’—Deuteronomy 12:16, 24.

This is not to say that the provision to eat meat is a license to indulge in the needless spilling of animal blood for the sheer thrill of the hunt or to display personal prowess. Nimrod evidently did this. The Bible identifies him as “a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah.” (Genesis 10:9) Even today, excitement over hunting and killing animals can easily develop in some. But such a spirit goes hand in hand with wanton disregard for animal life, and God does not approve of it

Answer 8

They are allowed to eat meat.

Answer 9

its because violence hasn't been discovered yet beacuse God made that time perfect until satan tempted Eve...