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Counsels on Diet and Foods
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Not to Be Wholly Discarded by Those Especially Needing Milk—
625
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People to Be Taught How to Cook without Milk—807
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604. We have always used a little milk and some sugar. This we
have never denounced, either in our writings or in our preaching. We
believe cattle will become so much diseased that these things will yet
be discarded, but the time has not yet come for sugar and milk to be
wholly abolished from our tables.—
Letter 1, 1873
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Use of milk and sugar together, see “Milk and Sugar,” Section
XIX
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605. Animals from which milk is obtained are not always healthy.
They may be diseased. A cow may be apparently well in the morning,
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and die before night. Then she was diseased in the morning, and her
milk was diseased, but you did not know it. The animal creation is
diseased.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:369, 1870
606. The light given me is that it will not be very long before
we shall have to give up any animal food. Even milk will have to be
discarded. Disease is accumulating rapidly. The curse of God is upon
the earth, because man has cursed it.—
Australasian Union Conference
Record, July 28, 1899
Sterilization of Milk
607. If milk is used, it should be thoroughly sterilized; with this
precaution, there is less danger of contracting disease from its use.—
The Ministry of Healing, 302, 1905
608. The time may come when it will not be safe to use milk. But
if the cows are healthy and the milk thoroughly cooked, there is no
necessity of creating a time of trouble beforehand.—
Letter 39, 1901
A Substitute for Butter
609. I eat but two meals a day, and still follow the light given me
thirty-five years ago. I use no meat. As for myself, I have settled the
butter question. I do not use it. This question should easily be settled
in every place where the purest article cannot be obtained. We have
good milch cows, a Jersey and a Holstein. We use cream, and all are
satisfied with this.—
Letter 45, 1903