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Section 15—Diet and Health
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all because your own sensibilities were blunted through the selfish
gratification of appetite. For Christ’s sake look deeper, study deeper,
and act in accordance with the light God has been pleased to give
you and others on this subject.—
Letter 72, 1896
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Appeal to a Minister
It has been clearly presented to me that God’s people are to take
a firm stand against meat eating. Would God for thirty years give
His people the message that if they desire to have pure blood and
clear minds they must give up the use of flesh-meat, if He did not
want them to heed this message? By the use of flesh-meat the animal
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nature is strengthened and the spiritual nature weakened. Such men
as you, who are engaged in the most solemn and important work
ever entrusted to human beings, need to give special heed to what
they eat.
Remember that when you eat flesh-meat, you are but eating
grains and vegetables secondhand; 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 secondhand? ...
The thought of killing animals to be eaten is in itself revolting.
If man’s natural sense had not been perverted by the indulgence
of appetite, human beings would not think of eating the flesh of
animals.
Do Not Counterwork Reform
We have been given the work of advancing health reform. The
Lord desires His people to be in harmony with one another. As
you must know, we shall not leave the position in which for the last
thirty-five years the Lord has been bidding us stand. Beware how
you place yourself in opposition to the work of health reform. It will
go forward; for it is the Lord’s means of lessening the suffering in
our world and of purifying His people.
Be careful what attitude you assume, lest you be found causing
division. My brother, even while you fail to bring into your life