Flesh Foods
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462. A meat diet changes the disposition, and strengthens animal-
ism.... To educate your children to subsist on a meat diet would be
harmful to them.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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463. Its use excites the animal propensities to increased activity,
and strengthens the animal passions. When the animal propensities
are increased, the intellectual and moral powers are decreased. The
use of the flesh of animals ... benumbs the fine sensibilities of the
mind.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:63
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464. It is impossible for those who make free use of flesh meats to
have an unclouded brain and an active intellect.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:62
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465. Eating much flesh will diminish intellectual activity. Students
would accomplish much more in their studies if they never tasted
meat. When the animal part of the human nature is strengthened
by meat eating, the intellectual powers diminish proportionately.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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466. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the intellect, and
blunts the moral sensibilities.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:64
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467. Such a diet contaminates the blood and stimulates the lower
passions. It prevents vigor of thought and enfeebles the perceptions, so
that God and the truth are not understood.—
Unpublished Testimonies,
January 11, 1897
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Spiritual Effects
468. O, if every one could discern these matters as they have been
presented to me, those who are so careless, so indifferent in regard to
their character building, those who plead for indulgence in a fleshmeat
diet, would never open their lips in justification of an appetite for the
flesh of dead animals.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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469. A religious life can be more successfully attained and main-
tained if meat is discarded; for this diet stimulates into intense activity
the lustful propensities, and enfeebles the moral and spiritual nature.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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Diseased Meats
470. The meat diet is a serious question. Shall human beings live
on the flesh of dead animals? The answer, from the light that God has