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Healthful Living
452. When we feed on flesh, the juices of what we eat pass into the
circulation. A feverish condition is created, because the animals are
diseased, and by partaking of their flesh we plant the seeds of disease
in our own tissue and blood. Then, when exposed to the changes of
a malarious atmosphere, to prevailing epidemics and contagious dis-
eases, these are more sensibly felt, for the system is not in a condition
to resist disease.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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453. Because those who partake of animal food do not immediately
feel its effects, is no evidence that it does not injure them. It may be
doing its work surely upon the system, and yet the persons for the time
being realize nothing of it.—
How to Live, 59
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454. The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat
eating.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:64
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455. The practise of eating largely of meat is causing diseases
of all kinds,—cancers, tumors, scrofula, tuberculosis, and other like
affections.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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456. The mortality caused by meat eating is not discerned. If
it were, we should hear no arguments and excuses in favor of the
indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh.—
Unpublished Testimonies,
November 5, 1896
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457. Her system is full of scrofulous humors from the eating of
flesh meats. The use of swine’s flesh in your family has imparted a
bad quality of blood.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:62
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458. Cancers, tumors, and various other inflammatory diseases are
largely caused by meat eating. From the light which God has given
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me, the prevalence of cancers and tumors is largely due to gross living
on dead flesh.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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459. Cancers, tumors, diseases of the lungs, the liver, and the
kidneys, all exist in the animals that are used for food.—
Unpublished
Testimonies, March, 1896
460. When a limb is broken, physicians, recommend their patients
not to eat meat, as there would be danger of inflammation’s setting
in.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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Mental and Moral Effects
461. If we subsist largely upon the flesh of dead animals, we shall
partake of their nature.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:61
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