Genesis 3 contains a lot of eating and talking about eating. Of course, since the discussion centers around the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the eating is plant-based. In this case, the eating of fruit is in rebellion against God's command to stay away from that fruit. This act of disobedience results in a curse against mankind and, indirectly, the first use of animals recorded in scripture when God "made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them."
The serpent, Adam, and Eve, each in their turn receive a curse from God. While woman's curse centers around family, her relationship with her husband and child-bearing, man's is centered on laboring in the earth to bring forth food. Genesis 3: 17-19 states, ". . . cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken."
Notice there is no mention of difficulty in raising and butchering livestock, for the eating of animals has not yet entered into the history of mankind. That won't come for many generations.
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