Flesh Meats (Proteins Continued)
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Meat Eating Especially Dangerous Now
661. Flesh was never the best food; but its use is now doubly
objectionable, since disease in animals is so rapidly increasing.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 313, 1905
662. Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not
be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-
day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life sustaining are to
be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:124, 1902
663. When will those who know the truth take their stand on the
side of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be
true to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is
dangerous to use flesh meat? I am instructed to say that if ever meat
eating were safe, it is not safe now.—
Manuscript 133, 1902
644. The light given me is that it will not be very long before we
shall have to give up using 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. The habits and practices of
men have brought the earth into such a condition that some other food
than animal food must be substituted for the human family. We do not
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need flesh food at all. God can give us something else.—
Australasian
Union Conference Record, July 28, 1899
665. Could you know just the nature of the meat you eat, could
you see the animals when living from which the flesh is taken when
dead, you would turn with loathing from your flesh meats. The very
animals whose flesh you eat, are frequently so diseased that, if left
alone, they would die of themselves; but while the breath of life is in
them, they are killed and brought to market. You take directly into
your system humors and poison of the worst kind, and yet you realize
it not.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:404, 405, 1870
Animal Suffering and Its Effects
666. Often animals are taken to market and sold for food, when
they are so diseased that their owners fear to keep them longer. And
some of the processes of fattening them for market produce disease.
Shut away from the light and pure air, breathing the atmosphere of