The Preparation of Healthful Foods
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Testimonies for the Church 7:124-126
(1900).]
Cooranbong, N.S.W.,
March 10, 1900.
During the past night many things have been opened before me.
The manufacture and sale of health foods will require careful and
prayerful consideration.
There are many minds in many places to whom the Lord will
surely give knowledge of how to prepare foods that are healthful and
palatable, if He sees that they will use this knowledge righteously.
Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be
long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-
day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life-sustaining are to be
prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat.
The Lord will teach many in all parts of the world to combine fruits,
grains, and vegetables into foods that will sustain life and will not bring
disease. Those who have never seen the recipes for making the health
foods now on the market will work intelligently, experimenting with
the food productions of the earth, and will be given light regarding the
use of these productions. The Lord will show them what to do.
He who gives skill and understanding to His people in one part
of the world will give skill and understanding to His people in other
parts of the world. It is His design that the food treasures of each
country shall be so prepared that they can be used in the countries for
which they are suited. As God gave manna from heaven to sustain the
children of Israel, so He will now give His people in different places
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skill and wisdom to use the productions of these countries in preparing
foods to take the place of meat. These foods should be made in the
different countries; for to transport them from one country to another
makes them so expensive that the poor cannot afford them. It will
never pay to depend upon America for the supply of health foods for
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