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who eat too largely and those who eat unhealthful food bring trouble
upon themselves, unfitting themselves for the service of God. It is
dangerous to eat meat, for animals are suffering from many deadly
diseases. Those who persist in eating the flesh of animals sacrifice
spirituality to perverted appetite. Their bodies become full of disease.—
MS 66, 1901.
Intellectual Activity Diminished by a Heavy Meat Diet—The
intellectual, the moral, and the physical powers are depreciated by the
habitual use of flesh meats. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds
the intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities.—
Testimonies for the
Church 2:64
(1900).
What We Eat Diminishes Intellectual Activity—We are com-
posed of what we eat, and 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 agent is
strengthened by meat eating, the intellectual powers diminish propor-
tionately.
A religious life can be more successfully gained and maintained if
meat is discarded, for this diet stimulates into intense activities, lustful
propensities, and enfeebles the moral and spiritual nature. “The flesh ...
[warreth] against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh” (
Galatians
5:17
).
We greatly need to encourage and cultivate pure, chaste thoughts
and to strengthen the moral powers rather than the lower and carnal
[391]
powers. God help us to awake from our self-indulgent appetites!—Lt
72, 1896. (.)
Meat Eating and Disposition—As a general thing, the Lord did
not provide His people with flesh meat in the desert because He knew
that the use of this diet would create disease and insubordination. In
order to modify the disposition and bring the higher powers of the
mind into active exercise, He removed from them the flesh of dead
animals.—MS 38, 1898. (
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 375
.)
Results of Pork Eating—It is not the physical health alone that is
injured by pork eating. The mind is affected and the finer sensibilities
are blunted by the use of this gross article of food.—
Healthful Living,
58, 1865
(Part 1) . (
Counsels on Diet and Foods, 393
.)
Imprudent Eater Disqualifies for Counseling—Sugar is not
good for the stomach. It causes fermentation, and this clouds the