Flesh Meats (Proteins Continued)
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But it is not the physical health alone which is injured by pork
eating. The mind is affected, and the finer sensibilities are blunted by
the use of this gross article of food. It is impossible for the flesh of any
living creatures to be healthy when filth is their natural element, and
when they will feed upon every detestable thing. The flesh of swine
is composed of what they eat. If human beings eat their flesh, their
blood and their flesh will be corrupted by impurities conveyed to them
through the swine.
The eating of pork has produced scrofula, leprosy, and cancerous
humors. Pork eating is still causing the most intense suffering to the
human race.—How to Live 1:58, 1865.
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Animal Fat and Blood
696. As a family, you are far from being free from disease. You
have used the fat of animal which God in His word expressly forbids:
“It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your
dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.” “Moreover, ye shall eat
no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your
dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.”—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:61, 1868
697. The meat is served reeking with fat, because it suits the
perverted taste. Both the blood and the fat of animals are consumed as
a luxury. But the Lord gave special directions that these should not be
eaten. Why? Because their use would make a diseased current of blood
in the human system. The disregard for the Lord’s special directions
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has brought a variety of difficulties and diseases upon human beings....
If they introduce into their systems that which cannot make good flesh
and blood, they must endure the results of their disregard of God’s
word.—
Letter 102, 1896
Fish Often Contaminated
698. In many places fish become so contaminated by the filth on
which they feed as to be a cause of disease. This is especially the case
where the fish come in contact with the sewage of large cities. The fish
that are fed on the contents of the drains may pass into distant waters,