It was because, as she put it,
"I believe that all those foods were made available to
us (by God)".

Dear Wally,
I was faced with this exact same sort of conversation today. A friend
of
mine has a 3 yo daughter who very obviously cannot tolerate dairy or
wheat.
This kid eats these foods, and within 15 minutes is climbing the
walls. So I
tried to open up this topic, and my friend insisted that if we can eat
it,
then God meant for us to eat it.

People think that "natural" means "good", that "edible" means "tastes
good",
that "fat is disgusting", etc.

I like the premise in NeanderThin, "First Law: Do not eat the fruit of
the
technology* that makes edible+ the inedible++" -Gen 2:17
*English for "Tree of Knowledge" from the Greek tech (weave) and
nology (of
knowledge)
+in ancient Hebrew, synonymous with "good"
++in ancient Hebrew, synonymous with "evil".
What did God say in Genesis about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil? Do
not eat of it, *or you will surely die*.

Now I know that in the Bible, everyone's eating bread...but that's
AFTER God
kicked them out of Eden and made them toil (work the land for food).
Mankind
had already tasted of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, what was
done
was done.

But I don't think this means we neccesarily should continue eating the
inedible. We can choose not to!

I tried to explain to my friend, God created the food chain. He made
grains
for the insects to eat, so that the birds may eat the inscets, so the
people
may eat the birds. He gave the creatures milk so that they may nurse
their
young so that we may eat these creatures. We're skipping the middle
man here
and what have we got? A planet destroyed by agriculture. The foods
that God
means for us to eat come prepackaged for us by God; that is, they are
edible
raw.
Gotta go quick,
Stacie