Let Food Be Thy Medicine, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)

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The Old Testament

Numerous classical commentators, such as Rashi, Maimonides, Nachmanides, and Abraham Ibn Ezra, all stated that God’s first intention was for people to be vegetarian. In The Five Books of Moses, God’s initial dietary law was strictly non-meat: And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you it shall be for food.” (From Genesis 1:29)

The Jews wandered in the desert for forty years in good health on a diet of manna. When they cried out for flesh, which the Lord reluctantly provided in the form of quails, a great plague broke out and many people died. Some commentators have interpreted this incident as an early warning about the negative health effects of eating meat.