There is no warrant to extend this to mean no death before the fall. There was disease and death and bloodshed in Nature long before man sinned. As we have shown in the chapters on geology, we cannot attribute all this death, disease, and bloodshed to the fall of Satan. Certainly the Scriptures do not teach that death entered the world through Satan. There is not one clear, unequivocal, unambiguous line in the entire Bible which would enable us to point to the vast array of fossil life and state that all the death here involved is by reason of the sin and fall of Satan.
Life can live only on life.
All diet must be protoplasm. One might affirm that such a creation could hardly be called good, but that is pre-judging what good means. The cycle of Nature is an amazing thing, and the relationship of life to life sets up a magnificent balance of Nature. Unless a very large number of certain forms of life are consumed, e.g. insects and fish, the earth would be shortly overpopulated with them. Some fish lay eggs into the millions and if all such eggs hatched the ocean would shortly be all fish.