Symbol 38
A Summary Explanation of Symbol No. 38 - The Human Being, and Animal and Vegetable Food
The symbol symbolises people’s evolution from animal nutrition to vegetable nutrition. Living on animal food is absolutely not a condition of human existence. As long as a human being kills animals in order to eat their flesh and blood, it can expect neither a disease-free life nor the cessation of war, a war that devastates mankind. The fact that the individual human being itself does not kill and butcher the animals that form part of its food does not free it from a share in the responsibility. Vegetable food is the most suitable food for human beings at the present step in evolution. As evolution gradually progresses, people will more and more abandon coarse vegetarian food and ultimately, in the real human kingdom, change completely to pure fruit nutrition.
See also Martinus' description of symbol no. 38 in The Eternal World Picture 4 and book no. 5: The Ideal Food.
The main details of the symbol: