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Swine’s flesh above all other flesh meats, produces a bad state of the
blood. Those who eat freely of pork can but be diseased.413
Especially would the fine, sensitive nerves of the brain become
enfeebled and so beclouded that sacred things would not be discerned,
but be placed upon the low level with common things.414
Those who have much outdoor exercise do not realize the bad
effects of pork eating, as those do whose life is mostly indoors, and
whose habits are sedentary, and whose labor is mental.415
The Effects of a Flesh Diet on the Mind and Soul
The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than are the
physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to health, and whatever affects the
body has a corresponding effect on the mind and the soul.416
A meat diet changes the disposition and strengthens animalism.
We are composed 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
proportionately.417
If ever there was a time when the diet should be of the most simple
kind, it is now. Meat should not be placed before our children. Its
influence is to excite and strengthen the lower passions, and has a
tendency to deaden the moral powers.418
Greater reforms should be seen among the people who claim to be
looking for the soon appearing of Christ. Health reform is to do among
our people a work which it has not yet done. There are those who
ought to be awake to the danger of meat eating, who are still eating the
flesh of animals, thus endangering the physical, mental, and spiritual
health. Many who are now only half converted on the question of meat
eating will go from God’s people, to walk no more with them.419
413Counsels on Diet and Foods, 392, 393
414Testimonies for the Church 2:96
415Counsels on Diet and Foods, 393
416The Ministry of Healing, 315
417Counsels on Diet and Foods, 389
418Testimonies for the Church 2:352
419Counsels on Health, 575