We’re the first culture in the world that routinely eats things that have never lived. In spiritual parlance, we’re ingesting things that are an abomination to our bodies—and then requesting prayer for the ailments that result. God set up life and death, living food and its decomposition and digestion, as visceral object lessons, daily, of our dependence on Him. Ecology does not give us the liberty to deny its principles and neither does God.

