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     There are many now under the shadow of death who are prepared to do a work for the Master but who have not felt that a sacred obligation rested upon them to observe the laws of God. There are many who have limited themselves to a diet that cannot sustain them in health. In the efforts to discard a meat diet, there has not sufficient care been taken to provide nourishing food to take the place of meat. It is really contrary to health reform to cut off the great variety of dishes, and then go to the opposite extreme, taking no pains to understand that the living machinery must be fed in order to work, and reducing the quantity and quality of the food to a low degree. Instead of health reform, this is a health deform. After some have made the change in their diet, they have not considered that they must have tact and energy to prepare their food in the most healthful manner.

Brother...... your stomach is in such a condition that you must give yourself into skillful hands; you must have proper food prepared for you, without having to give particular thought to it yourself. It is your duty to guard the citadel of the soul, and the brain power by taking weeks of rest and not trying to labour until a change takes place in you for the better. Your system must have nourishment. Your whole system will become deranged if you have to take charge of your own diet. This continual mental anxiety is a tax you must not bear. If any physician prescribes meat for you, say No; the flesh of dead animals does not compose my diet. Flesh meat is not necessary for the health and strength of mind or body. If the Lord had not furnished all that is essential in the vegetable world, there would be an excuse for meat eating, but animals are now so diseased that it is now really dangerous; it is unclean to eat meat. Flesh meat formed no part of the food provided for man in the beginning. It was after the transgression and fall, when death was to be man's portion, that God permitted that long lived race to eat the flesh of unclean animals.

 Ellen G. White -END-

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  EGW, Spalding and Magan Collection page 47, pr. 02.

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  Cancer, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat-eating. From the light which God has given me, the prevalence   of cancers, and tumors is due to gross living on dead flesh. I sincerely and prayerfully hope that as a physician you will not forever be blind upon this subject. For blindness mingled with a want of moral courage to deny your appetite, to lift the cross, which means to take up the very duties that cut across the natural appetite and passion. Feeding on flesh the juices and fluids of what we eat passes into the circulation of our blood, and as we are composed of what we eat, we become animalized.

Thus 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 in a malarious atmosphere, these are more sensibly felt. Also when we are exposed to prevailing epidemics and contagious diseases, the system is not in a condition to resist the disease. I have the subject presented to me in different aspects. The mortality caused by meat-eating is not discerned. If it were, we should hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh. We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing corpses upon our tables to compose our bill of fare. I might go on to any length upon this subject, but I will forbear.

EGW. Testimonies for the Church Volume Two Ch. 52, pg. 371. pr. 02.

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     We want to work from the right standpoint. We want to act like men and women that are to be brought into judgment. And when we adopt the health reform we should adopt it from a sense of duty, not because somebody else has adopted it. I have not changed my course a particle since I adopted the health reform. I have not taken one step back since the light from heaven upon this subject first shone upon my pathway. I broke away from everything at once,--from meat and butter, and from three meals,--and that while engaged in exhaustive brain labor, writing from early morning till sundown. I came down to two meals a day without changing my labor. I have been a great sufferer from disease, having had five shocks of paralysis. I have been with my left arm bound to my side for months because the pain in my heart was so great. When making these changes in my diet, I refused to yield to taste and let that govern me. Shall that stand in the way of my securing greater strength, that I may therewith glorify my Lord? Shall that stand in my way for a moment? Never! I suffered keen hunger. I was a great meat eater. But when faint, I placed my arms across my stomach and said: "I will not taste a morsel.

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distasteful to me. I could seldom eat a piece as large as a dollar. Some things in the reform I could get along with very well, but when I came to the bread I was especially set against it. When I made these changes I had a special battle to fight.

The first two or three meals, I could not eat. I said to my stomach: "You may wait until you can eat bread." In a little while I could eat bread, and graham bread, too. This I could not eat before; but now it tastes good, and I have had no loss of appetite.

EGW. Counsels on Diet and Foods

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         <SB Handle the Flesh Meat Question Wisely

                                        Letter 102, 1896 <EB

     795. In this country [AUSTRALIA] there is an organized vegetarian society, but its numbers are comparatively few.

Among the people in general, meat is largely used by all classes. It is the cheapest article of food; and even where poverty abounds, meat is usually found upon the table. 

Therefore there is the more need of handling wisely the

question of meat eating. In regard to this matter there

should be no rash movements. We should consider the

situation of the people, and the power of lifelong habits

and practices, and should be careful not to urge our ideas upon others, as if this question were a test, and those who eat largely of meat were the greatest sinners.

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     We are built up from that which we eat. Shall we

strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? In

the place of educating the taste to love this gross diet, it is

high time that we were educating ourselves to subsist upon

fruits, grains, and vegetables. This is the work of all who

are connected with our institutions. Use less and less meat,

until it is not used at all. If meat is discarded, if the taste

is not educated in that direction, if a liking for fruits and

grains is encouraged, it will soon be as God in the 

beginning designed it should be. No meat will be used by  

His people.

-END-

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         <SB Handle the Flesh Meat Question Wisely

                                        Letter 102, 1896 <EB

     795. In this country [AUSTRALIA] there is an organized vegetarian society, but its numbers are comparatively few.

Among the people in general, meat is largely used by all

classes. It is the cheapest article of food; and even where poverty abounds, meat is usually found upon the table.

Therefore there is the more need of handling wisely the

question of meat eating. In regard to this matter there

should be no rash movements. We should consider the

situation of the people, and the power of lifelong habits

and practices, and should be careful not to urge our ideas upon others, as if this question were a test, and those who eat largely of meat were the greatest sinners.

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-TEXT- <SB Leaders in Reform, Letter 48, 1902 <EB

     715. While we do not make the use of flesh meat a test, while we do not want to force any one to give up its use, yet it is our duty to request that no minister of the conference shall make light of or oppose the message of reform on this point. If, in the face of the light God has given concerning the effect of meat eating on the system, you will still continue to eat meat, you must bear the consequences. But do not take a position before the people that will permit them to think that it is not necessary to call for a reform in regard to meat eating; because the Lord is calling for a reform.

The Lord has given us the work of proclaiming the message of health reform, and if you cannot step forward in the ranks of those who are giving this message you are not to make this prominent. In counterworking the efforts of your fellow laborers, who are teaching health reform, you are out of order, working on the wrong side.

      [WORK OF HEALTH REFORM WILL GO FORWARD; BEWARE OF OPPOSING IT--42]

EGW. The Youth's Instructor

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-AT- Words to Students: Health

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     Man has fallen by sin; but there is no need of his continually repeating the transgression of Adam and Eve. There is no necessity for pleasing and gratifying the appetite by indulging in forbidden things. All should understand that by indulging perverted appetite, they violate the laws of health and life. Many have misinterpreted health-reform, and have received perverted ideas of what constitutes right living. Some honestly think that a proper dietary consists chiefly of porridge. To eat largely of porridge would not insure health to the digestive organs; for it is too much like liquid.

Encourage the eating of fruit and vegetables and bread. A meat diet is not the most wholesome of diets, and yet I would take the position that meat should not be discarded by every one. Those who have feeble digestive organs can often use meat, when they cannot eat vegetables, fruit, or porridge. If we would preserve the best health, we should avoid eating vegetables and fruit at the same meal. If the stomach is feeble, there will be distress, the brain will be confused, and unable to put forth mental effort. Have fruit at one meal and vegetables at the next.

-END-

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     As yet we have received only two hundred and fifty pounds from you.

Special direction was given in regard to the manufacturing of health foods, but lately we have not had money to invest in peanuts for our family. We eat no meat or butter, and use very little milk in cooking. There is no fresh fruit at this season. We have a good yield of tomatoes, but our family think much of the nuts prepared in a variety of ways. . . . I cannot eat a great variety of food in the vegetable line. Sometimes I venture to go a little farther in taking dried peas, prepared as I had them prepared at the Sanitarium. But it costs me too much. Gas accumulates and crowds my heart. . . . I am so thankful that the Lord has given us enough to eat. There are poor families who do not have enough to satisfy hunger. I am thankful that I can eat my two meals, and feel in every way comfortable. Apples here are high, and of an inferior quality, but we shall soon have fresh oranges and lemons.--Letter 73, 1899, pp. 9, 10. (To J. H. Kellogg, April 17, 1899.)

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     In all our missions, women of intelligence should have

charge of the domestic arrangements, -- women who know

how to prepare food nicely and healthfully. The table

should be abundantly supplied with food of the best

quality. If any have a perverted taste that craves tea,

coffee, condiments, and unhealthful dishes, enlighten them.

Seek to arouse the conscience. Set before them the

principles of the Bible upon hygiene. Where plenty of good

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milk and fruit can be obtained, there is rarely any

excuse for eating animal food; it is not necessary to take

the life of any of God's creatures to supply our ordinary

needs. In certain cases of illness or exhaustion it may

be thought best to use some meat, but great care should

be taken to secure the flesh of healthy animals. It has

come to be a very serious question whether it is safe to

use flesh-food at all in this age of the world. It would

be better never to eat meat than to use the flesh of animals

that are not healthy. When I could not obtain the

food I needed, I have sometimes eaten a little meat; but

I am becoming more and more afraid of it.

-END-

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     In California there is an abundance for the table, in the shape of fresh fruit, vegetables, and grains, and there is no necessity that meat be used. The weakness you experience without the use of meat is one of the strongest arguments I could present to you as a reason why you should discontinue its use. Those who eat meat feel stimulated after eating this food, and they suppose they are made stronger. After he discontinues the use of meat, he may for a time feel a weakness but when his system is cleansed from the effect of this diet, he no longer feels the weakness, and will cease to wish for that which he has pleaded for as an essential to strengthen him.

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     I eat only two meals, and can not eat vegetables or grains. I do not use meat: I can not go back on this. When tomatoes, raised on my land were placed on my table, I tried using them, uncooked and seasoned with a little salt or sugar. These I found agreed with me very well, and from last February until June they formed the greater part of my diet. With them I ate crackers, here called biscuits. I eat no dessert but plain pumpkin pie. I use a little boiled milk in my simple homemade coffee, but discard cream and butter and strictly adhere to a limited amount of food. I am scarcely ever hungry, and never know what it is to have a feverish, disagreeable feeling in my stomach. I have no bad taste in my mouth.

-END-

 Ellen G. White Volume 2 The Progressive Years 1862-1876

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               Problems in Adopting the Vegetarian Diet

     James White was trying to help those interested in reforming their dietetic program, encouraging them to raise small fruits to fill out a diet from which flesh had been discarded. It may be well to pause for a moment to consider what was involved in 1870 and earlier, in changes in diet. There were no prepared cereal foods, such as corn flakes and shredded wheat, except perhaps oatmeal, which was bought at a drugstore by the ounce for those who were ill. There were no skillfully prepared vegetable-protein foods (today called meat substitutes), not even peanut butter. There were no frozen foods. The selection of what to eat was limited to meat, legumes, grains, and vegetables and fruits in season. Some kinds of nuts could be had, but they were seldom mentioned.

-END-

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     The rule which some recommend, is to eat whenever there is a sense of hunger, and to eat until satisfied. This course will lead to disease and numerous evils. Appetite at the present day is not generally natural, therefore is not a correct index to the wants of the system. It has been pampered and misdirected until it has become morbid and can no longer be a safe guide. Nature has been abused, her efforts crippled by wrong habits and indulgence in sinful luxuries, until taste and appetite are alike perverted. It is unnatural to have a craving for flesh-meats. It was not thus in the beginning. The appetite for meat has been made and educated by man.

Our Creator has furnished us, in vegetables, grain, and fruits, all the elements of nutrition necessary to health and strength. Flesh-meats composed no part of the food of Adam and Eve before their fall. If fruits, vegetables and grains are not sufficient to meet the wants of man, then the Creator made a mistake in providing for Adam.

-END-

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     I at once cut meat out of my bill of fare. After that I was at times placed where I was compelled (?) to eat a little meat. But for many years not a morsel of the flesh of dead animals has passed my lips. Neither has meat been placed upon my table. My visitors have been given wholesome, nourishing food, but no meat.

-END-

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-TI- Ellen G. White Volume 6 The Later Elmshaven Years 1905-1915

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        Abstinence from flesh meat will prove a great benefit to those

                                      <SI 37 <EI

     who abstain. The diet question is a subject of vital importance.

     Those who do not conduct sanitariums in the right way lose their opportunity to help the very ones who need help the most. Our sanitariums are established for a special purpose, to teach people that we do not live to eat, but that we eat to live.--MS 90, 1905

    (Sp. T, Series B., No. 5, pp. 28, 29). [* THE SEVERAL E. G. WHITE DOCUMENTS DEALING WITH THE BOULDER SANITARIUM SITUATION WERE FIRST ASSEMBLED AS PARTS OF MS 90, 1905, AND LATER PRINTED IN <SI SPECIAL TESTIMONIES <EI, SERIES B, NO. 5.]

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     We are to be brought into connection with the masses.

Should health reform be taught them in its most extreme

form, harm would be done. We ask them to leave off eating

meat and drinking tea and coffee. This is well. But some

say that milk also should be given up. This is a subject that

needs to be carefully handled. There are poor families

whose diet consists of bread and milk, and, if they can get

it, a little fruit. All flesh food should be discarded, but

vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or

cream or something equivalent. The poor say, when health

reform is presented to them, "What shall we eat? We cannot

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afford to buy the nut foods." As I preach the gospel

to the poor, I am instructed to tell them to eat that food

which is most nourishing. I cannot say to them: You must

not eat eggs, or milk, or cream; you must use no butter in

the preparation of food. The gospel must be preached to the

poor, and the time has not yet come to prescribe the

strictest diet.

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-TI- The Spirit of Prophecy Volume One

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-CT- The Flood

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     Previous to this time God had given man no

permission to eat animal food. Every living

substance upon the face of the earth upon which man

could subsist had been destroyed; therefore God

gave Noah permission to eat of the clean beasts

which he had taken with him into the ark. God

said to Noah, "Every moving thing that liveth

shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have

I given you all things." As God had formerly

given them the herb of the ground and fruit of

the field, now, in the peculiar circumstances in

which they are placed, he permits them to eat

animal food. Yet I saw that the flesh of animals

was not the most healthful article of food for man.

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     When the Lord brought his people from Egyptian bondage, he led them through the wilderness to prove

them, and try them. He promised to be their God,

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and to take them to himself as his peculiar treasure.

He did not prohibit their eating meat, but withheld

it from them in a great measure. He gave them food

which he designed that they should have, which was

healthy, and of which they could eat freely. He

rained their bread from Heaven, and gave them purest

water out of the flinty rock. He made a covenant

with them, that if they would obey him in all things,

he would put no disease upon them. But the Israelites

were not satisfied with the food which God gave

them. They murmured against Moses and against

God, and wished themselves back in Egypt, where

they could sit by the flesh pots. God in his anger

gave them flesh to gratify their lustful appetite, and

great numbers of them died in the act of eating the

meat for which they had lusted. While it was yet

between their teeth the curse of God came upon them.

God here teaches his people that he is displeased with

their permitting their appetite to control them. The

Israelites at times would prefer slavery, and even

death, rather than to be deprived of meat

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     Your family have partaken largely of flesh meats, and the

animal propensities have been strengthened, while the

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intellectual have been weakened. We are composed of what we

eat, and if we subsist largely upon the flesh of dead animals

we shall partake of their nature. You have encouraged the

grosser part of your organism, while the more refined has been

weakened. You have repeatedly said in defense of your

indulgence of meat eating: "However injurious it may be to

others, it does not injure me, for I have used it all my life." But

you know not how well you might have been if you had

abstained from the use of flesh meats. As a family, you are far

from being free from disease. You have used the fat of

animals, 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."

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-AT- Among the Churches--Arbuckle

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     A sore trial has been brought upon the little company here, by the

course of their leader. Since he was chosen elder of the church he has

repeatedly attended dancing parties with his wife and daughter. This is the

first instance of the kind that I have ever met among our churches. I was

greatly surprised that one who had a knowledge of our faith could thus unite with the ungodly. Even if he has so little spiritual discernment as to see no wrong in this fascinating pleasure, he can but know that he is placing a stone of stumbling in the way of others. He knows that he is wounding his brethren. What say the Scriptures concerning these things? "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." And again, "Let us not therefore judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way."

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                  <SB The Quails. <EB

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     God continued to feed the Hebrew host with the

bread rained from Heaven; but they were not satisfied.

Their depraved appetites craved meat, which

God in his wisdom had withheld, in a great measure,

from them. "And the mixed multitude that was

among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel

also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to

eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in

Egypt freely, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the

leeks, and the onions, and the garlic. But now our

soul is dried away. There is nothing at all besides

this manna before our eyes." They became weary of

the food prepared for them by angels, and sent them

from Heaven. They knew it was just the food God

wished them to have, and that it was healthful for

them and their children. Notwithstanding their

hardships in the wilderness, there was not a feeble one in

all their tribes. Satan, the author of disease and

misery, will approach God's people where he can have the

greatest success. He has controlled the appetite in a

great measure from the time of his successful experiment

with Eve, in leading her to eat the forbidden

fruit. He came with his temptations first to the mixed

multitude, the believing Egyptians, and stirred them

up to seditious murmurings. They would not be

content with the healthful food which God had provided

for them. Their depraved appetites craved a greater

variety, especially flesh meats.

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     I have thought for years that I was dependent upon

a meat diet for strength. I have eaten three meals a

day until within a few months. It has been very difficult

for me to go from one meal to another without

suffering from faintness at the stomach, and dizziness

of the head. Eating would remove these feelings. I

seldom allowed myself to eat anything between my

regular meals, and have made it a practice to often

retire without supper. But I have suffered greatly for

want of food from breakfast to dinner, and have

frequently fainted. Eating meat removed for the time

these faint feelings. I therefore decided that meat was

indispensable in my case.

-END-

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     My brother, you are far from God; you are in a state of

backsliding. You do not possess noble moral courage. You

yield to your own desires instead of denying self. In seeking

after happiness, you have attended places of amusement which

God does not approve, and in so doing have weakened your

own soul. My brother, you have much to learn. You indulge

your appetite by eating more food than your system can

convert into good blood. It is sin to be intemperate in the quantity

of food eaten, even if the quality is unobjectionable. Many

feel that, if they do not eat meat and the grosser articles of

food, they may eat of simple food until they cannot well eat

more. This is a mistake. Many professed health reformers

are nothing less than gluttons. They lay upon the digestive

organs so great a burden that the vitality of the system is

exhausted in the effort to dispose of it. It also has a depressing

influence upon the intellect, for the brain nerve power is called

upon to assist the stomach in its work. Overeating, even of

the simplest food, benumbs the sensitive nerves of the brain

and weakens its vitality. Overeating has a worse effect upon

the system than overworking; the energies of the soul are more

effectually prostrated by intemperate eating than by intemperate

working.

-END-

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-TEXT-

     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

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from the effect of this diet, they no longer feel the

weakness, and will cease to wish for that for which

they have pleaded as essential to strength.-- <SI U. T.,

Aug. 30, 1896. <EI

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                                       <SB F. of F.--Vol. 2, pp. 153-154 <EB

     I have thought for years that I was dependent upon a meat diet for

strength. I have eaten three meals a day until within a few months. It has

been very difficult for me to go from one meal to another without suffering

from faintness at the stomach, and dizziness of the head. Eating would remove

these feelings. I seldom allowed myself to eat anything between my regular

meals, and have made it a practice to often retire without supper. But I have

suffered greatly for want of food from breakfast to dinner, and have

frequently fainted. Eating meat removed for the time these faint feelings. I

therefore decided that meat was indispensable in my case.

-END-

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     Remember that when you eat flesh-meat, you are

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but eating grains and vegetables second-hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that makes it grow and prepares it for market. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the animal, and becomes part of its life, and then human beings eat the animal. Why are they so willing to eat their food second-hand?

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                                                       <SB 2 T.--404-405 <EB

     Could you know just the nature of the meat you eat, could you see the

animals when living from which the flesh is taken when dead, you would turn with loathing from your flesh-meats. 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 poison of the worst kind, and yet you realize it not. You love to indulge appetite. You have this lesson to learn: "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

-END-

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     A round table stood in the center of the room, with bread, butter,

cheese, and cold sliced meat. We all stood around this table while Elder

Matteson asked a blessing in Swedish. We then took bread and butter--if we eat the articles--and either stood and walked about and ate, or sat in chairs or sofas, of which there were several. Before these sofas and chairs were small tables covered with linen cloths. Next came the plates of plum soup

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and meat soup. The first soup was made of prunes, raisins, apples, and I

know not how many kinds [of fruit]. These [plates of soup] were placed on

the small tables. After this dish was brought wild meat and fish prepared in a very nice manner. After this was the dessert, of cooked peeled pears with cream. Then all stand and ask a silent blessing; then each guest shakes hands with the host and hostess and thanks them for the dinner, and the ceremony is ended.

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Began at 206 and wrote back toward UP.

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     But in the very month in which this article was published, one of my

family asked me whether we should not kill some of the fowls of which we had a large number, and prepare them for our table. I said decidedly, "No." I have signed the pledge to my heavenly Father, and have discarded meat as an article of diet. I will not eat flesh myself, nor set it before any of my household. I gave orders that the fowls should be sold, and that the money which they brought in should be expended in buying fruit for the table.

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Jesus ate meat after crucifixions. 

-BC- 6Red

-TI- Redemption: or the Resurrection of Christ; and His Ascension

-PR- 03

-PG- 35

-TEXT-

     There they beheld the feet and hands marred

by the cruel nails; and they recognized his

melodious voice, like none other they had ever heard.

"And while they yet believed not for joy, and

wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any

meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled

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fish, and of an honeycomb. And he took it, and

did eat before them." Faith and joy now took

the place of doubt and unbelief, and they

acknowledged their risen Saviour with feelings

which no words could express.

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Daniel and three men did not eat meat.

-PC- YI

-PT- The Youth's Instructor

-DT- 06-04-03

-AT- Lessons From the Life of Daniel, Part IV Daniel's Temperance Principles,

-PR- 04

-TEXT-

     Daniel could have argued that, dependent as he was on the king's favor, and subject to his power, there was no other course for him to pursue than to eat of the king's meat and to drink of his wine. But Daniel and his fellows counseled together. They considered how their physical and mental powers would be affected by the use of wine. The wine, they decided, was a snare. They were acquainted with the history of Nadab and Abihu, the record of whose intemperance had been preserved in the parchments of the Pentateuch.

They knew that by the constant use of wine these men had become addicted to the liquor habit, and that they had confused their senses by drinking just before engaging in the sacred service of the sanctuary. In their brain-benumbed state, not being able to discern the difference between the sacred and the common, they had put common fire upon their censers, instead of the sacred fire of the Lord's kindling, and for this sin they had been struck dead.

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Teaching Health Principles by Example

-PC- RH

-PT- Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

-DT- 06-23-03

-AT- Importance of Health and Temperance Publications

-PR- 04

-TEXT-

                   <SB Teaching Health Principles by Example <EB

     In his association with those whom he meets, the canvasser can do much to show the value of healthful living. Instead of staying at a hotel, he

should, if possible, obtain lodging with a private family. As he sits at the

table with the family, let him practice the instruction given in the health

works he is selling, holding up the banner of strict temperance. As

opportunity is offered, let him speak of the value of a healthful diet. He

should never be ashamed to say, "No, thank you; I do not eat meat." If tea is offered, let him refuse it, explaining that it is harmful, that though for a

time stimulating, the stimulating effect passes off, and a corresponding

depression is left. Let him explain the injurious effect of intoxicating

drinks, and of tobacco, tea, and coffee, on the digestive organs and the

brain.

-END-

-PC- RH

-PT- Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

-DT- 07-29-84

-AT- The Duty to Preserve Health

-PR- 04

-TEXT-

     We have no right to wantonly violate a single principle of the laws of

health. Christians should not follow the customs and practices of the world. The history of Daniel is placed upon record for our benefit. He chose to take a course that would make him singular in the king's court. He did not conform to the habits of courtiers in eating and drinking, but purposed in his heart that he would not eat of the king's meat nor drink of his wines. This was not a hastily-formed, wavering purpose, but one that was intelligently formed and resolutely carried out. Daniel honored God; and the promise was fulfilled to him, "Them that honor me, I will honor." The Lord gave him "knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom," and he "had understanding in all visions and dreams;" so that he was wiser than all in the king's courts, wiser than all the astrologers and magicians in the kingdom.

-END-

-PC- RH

-PT- Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

-DT- 04-19-87

-AT- The Conference at Basel

-PR- 09

-TEXT-

     No one could be more decidedly tempted than was Daniel. He was

apportioned wine and meat from the king's table; but Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not drink of the king's wine, nor eat of the luxuries of the king's table. Those four Hebrew youth chose to have their mental powers clear and undimmed, and their physical health was to them a matter of the highest consideration. They would not imperil the physical and moral powers for the indulgence of appetite. They saw the perils were on every side, and that if they resisted temptation they must make most decided efforts on their part, and then trust the rest with God. God gave these brave and noble minded youth such wisdom and understanding that they stood higher than all the astrologers and most learned men in the Babylonian Kingdom.

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The stomach

-PC- RH

-PT- Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

-DT- 06-13-99

-AT- Disease and Its Causes

-PR- 07

-TEXT-

     The stomach, when we lie down to rest, should have its work all done,

that it may enjoy rest, as well as other portions of the body. The work of

digestion should not be carried on through any period of the sleeping-hours.

After the stomach, which has been overtaxed, has performed its task, it

becomes exhausted, which causes faintness. Here many are deceived, and think that it is the want of food which produces such feelings; and without giving the stomach time to rest, they take more food, which for the time removes the faintness. And the more the appetite is indulged, the more will be its clamors for gratification. This faintness is generally the result of

meat-eating, and eating frequently, and too much. The stomach becomes weary by being kept constantly at work, disposing of food not the most healthful.

Having no time for rest, the digestive organs become enfeebled, hence the

sense of "goneness," and desire for frequent eating. The remedy such require is to eat less frequently and less liberally, and be satisfied with plain, simple food, eating twice, or, at most, three times, a day. The stomach must have its regular periods for labor and rest; hence eating irregularly and between meals is a most pernicious violation of the laws of health. With regular habits and proper food the stomach will gradually recover.

-END-

-PC- PUR

-PT- Pacific Union Recorder

-DT- 11-20-02

-AT- The Canvassing Work

-PR- 08

-TEXT-

     In his association with those whom he meets, the canvasser can do much to show the value of healthful living. Instead of staying at a hotel, he

should if possible obtain lodging with a private family. As he sits at the

table with the family, let him practise the instruction given in the health

works he is selling, holding up the banner of strict temperance. As

opportunity is offered, let him speak of the value of a healthful diet. He

should never be ashamed to say, "No, thank you; I do not eat meat." If tea is offered, let him refuse it, explaining that it is harmful that, though for a

time stimulating, the stimulating effect passes off, and a corresponding

depression is felt. Let him explain the injurious effect of intoxicating

drinks, and of tobacco, tea, and coffee, on the digestive organs and the

brain.

-END-

-BC- TSDF

-TI- Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods

-CN- 38a

-CT- Salt, Spices and Condiments

-PR- 11

-PG- 135

-TEXT-

                                           <SB F. of F.--Vol. 2, p. 130 <EB

     Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat freely of meat, highly

seasoned gravies, and various

<SI 136 <EI

kinds of rich cakes and preserves, can not immediately relish a plain,

wholesome, nutritious diet. Their taste is so perverted they have no appetite for a wholesome diet of fruits, plain bread, and vegetables. They need not expect to relish at first food so different from that in which they have been indulging.

-END-

-BC- TSDF

-TI- Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods

-CN- 36

-CT- Pie, Cake, Pastry and Puddings

-PR- 09

-PG- 128

-TEXT-

                                           <SB F. of F.--Vol. 2, p. 130 <EB

     Because it is the fashion, in harmony with morbid appetite, rich cake,

pies, and puddings, and every hurtful thing, are crowded into the stomach.

The table must be loaded down with a variety, or the depraved appetite can not be satisfied. In the morning, these slaves to appetite often have impure breath, and a furred tongue. They do not enjoy health, and wonder why they suffer with pains, headaches,

                                                                  <SI 129 <EI

and various ills. . . . Persons who have indulged their appetite to eat

freely of meat, highly seasoned gravies, and various kinds of rich cakes and preserves, can not immediately relish a plain, wholesome, nutritious diet.

Their taste is so perverted they have no appetite for a wholesome diet of

fruits, plain bread, and vegetables. They need not expect to relish at first

food so different from that in which they have been indulging. If they can

not at first enjoy plain food, they should fast until they can. That fast

will prove to them of greater benefit than medicine, for the abused stomach will find the rest which it has long needed, and real hunger can be satisfied with a plain diet. It will take time for the taste to recover from the abuses it has received, and to gain its natural tone. But perseverance in a

self-denying course of eating and drinking will soon make plain, wholesome food palatable, and it will be eaten with greater satisfaction than the epicure enjoys over his rich dainties.

-END-

-BC- TSDF

-TI- Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods

-CN- 28

-CT- Milk and Cream

                               <SB Chapter 28 <EB

                             <SB Milk and Cream <EB

-PR- 08

-PG- 119

-TEXT-

                                                        <SB K.--45--'03 <EB

     I eat but two meals a day, and still follow the light given me

thirty-five years ago. I use no meat. As for myself, I have settled the

butter question. I do not use it. This question should easily be settled in

every place where the purest article can not be obtained. We have two good milch cows, a Jersey and a Holstein. We use cream, and all are satisfied with this.

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