Sacrificed animals were not eaten to the bets of my knoweldge, but i could be wrong. However, the OT also has instances where God says he doesn't want sacrified animals. At any rate, God created man to eat plants. What happened after the Fall is not the creation, but corruption.
God created us as OMNIVORES!
Oh, I knew this was coming...If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us wings...
If He didn't want us to eat meat, then why did He construct our jaws and teeth as He did?
Our jaws and teeth are really not suited to eat meat -- that's why we need our meat cooked, and we need tenderizers. Now, I think God gave us fire and tenderizers much later.
And don't forget forks and knives...
Leviticus lays out in great detail just who gets to eat the different cuts of meat and what is done with the rest of the animal. The Koheni and the Levites had a good thing going. It does seem like a big barbeque.
I was just going from memory when I said this, but I may have lucked into a hit with this:
1 Sam. 2:13-15 : 13 Now it was the practice of the priests with the people that whenever anyone offered a sacrifice and while the meat was being boiled, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand. 14 He would plunge it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot, and the priest would take for himself whatever the fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. 15 But even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest some meat to roast; he won't accept boiled meat from you, but only raw."
Mmmmmmmm. ..... raw meat.
Our jaws and teeth are really not suited to eat meat -- that's why we need our meat cooked, and we need tenderizers. Now, I think God gave us fire and tenderizers much later.
But if you believed in a young earth, like me, then we've basically always had fire, so all is as it should be. :) Besides, I watched "Survivor", so I know that if you're hungry enough, you'll eat raw meat and be just fine! :)