Genesis 9:3

Every moving thing P assumes here that all animals are capable of furnishing food for man, and that there is no distinction between "clean" and "unclean" in the pre-Mosaic dispensation.

as the green herb See note on Genesis 1:30. As, at the Creation, God said of the whole vegetable world, that it should be man's food ("to you it shall be for meat," Genesis 1:29), so, now, He declares that the whole animal world shall be food for man. As He gave the vegetable, so now He gives the animal, life to man. But this gift is accompanied with two prohibitions.