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