Christian vegetarians and vegans counter, however, that the point of Jesus's teaching in Mark 7 is that his followers should concern themselves with the status of their heart which "informs our relationship with God, with each other, and the world". At most, we could deduce that when Jesus declared all foods clean, he was implicitly accepting the permissibility "for his immediate audience" of eating "the meat that was available to them in Israel in the first-century". But it doesn't follow from this that all Christians everywhere can eat whatever they like.