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was not the original food for man. Man was permitted to eat it after
the flood, because all vegetation had been destroyed.... Since the
flood the human race has been shortening the period of its existence.
Physical, mental, and moral degeneracy is rapidly increasing in these
last days.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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446. The weakness experienced on leaving off meat is one of the
strongest arguments that I could present as a reason why you should
discontinue its use. Those who eat meat feel stimulated after eating
this food, and they suppose that they are made stronger. After they
discontinue the use of meat, they may for a time feel weak, but when
the system is cleansed from the effect of this diet, they no longer feel
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the weakness, and will cease to wish for that for which they have
pleaded as essential to strength.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August
30, 1896
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447. You may think that you cannot work without meat; I thought
so once, but I know that in his original plan God did not provide for
the use of the flesh of dead animals as a diet for man. It is a gross,
perverted taste that will accept such food. To think of dead flesh rotting
in the stomach is revolting.—
Unpublished Testimonies, February 17,
1884
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448. The eating of flesh meats has made a poor quality of blood
and flesh. Your systems are in a state of inflammation, prepared to take
on disease. You are liable to acute attacks of disease, and to sudden
death, because you do not possess the strength of constitution to rally
and resist disease.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:61
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449. The physical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of
flesh meat. Meat eating deranges the system.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:64
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450. The use of the flesh of animals tends to cause a grossness of
the body.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:63
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451. Their meat diet, which was supposed to be essential, was
not necessary, and as they were composed of what they ate, brain,
bone, and muscle were in an unwholesome condition because they
lived on the flesh of dead animals. Their blood was being corrupted
by this improper diet. The flesh which they ate was diseased, and
their entire system was becoming gross and corrupted.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, August 30, 1896
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