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given, is, No, decidedly no. Our health institutions should educate on
this question.... They should point out the increase of disease in the
animal kingdom. The testimony of examiners is that very few animals
are free from disease.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January 11, 1897
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471. Disease of every type is afflicting the human family, and it is
largely the result of subsisting on the diseased flesh of dead animals.—
Unpublished Testimonies, March, 1896
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472. Those who subsist largely upon flesh cannot avoid eating the
meat of animals which are to a greater or less degree diseased. The
process of fitting the animals for market produces in them disease; and
fitted in as healthful a manner as they can be, they become heated and
diseased by driving before they reach the market. The fluids and flesh
of these diseased animals are received directly into the blood, and pass
into the circulation of the human body, becoming fluids and flesh of
the same. Thus humors are introduced into the system. And if the
person already has impure blood, it is greatly aggravated by eating of
the flesh of these animals.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:64
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473. 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 poisons of the worst kind,
and yet you realize it not.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:405
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474. There are but few animals that are free from disease. Many
have been made to suffer greatly for the want of light, pure air, and
wholesome food. When they are fattened, they are often confined
in close stables, and are not permitted to exercise, and to enjoy free
circulation of air. Many poor animals are left to breathe the poison of
filth which is left in barns and stables. Their lungs will not long remain
healthy while inhaling such impurities. Disease is conveyed to the
liver, and the entire system of the animal is diseased. They are killed,
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and prepared for the market, and people eat freely of this poisonous
animal food. Much disease is caused in this manner. But the people
cannot be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has
poisoned their blood, and caused their sufferings. Many die of disease
caused wholly by meat eating, yet the world does not seem to be the
wiser.... It may be doing its work surely upon the system, and yet the
person for the time being realize nothing of it.—
How to Live, 59
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