Flesh Foods
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other food prepared with spices, which have a tendency to excite the
animal passions.
Manuscript 133, 1902
When will those who know the truth take their stand on the side of
right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be true to the
principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is dangerous
to use flesh-meat? I am instructed to say that if ever meat-eating were
safe, it is not safe now. Diseased animals are taken to the large cities,
and to the villages, and sold for food. Many of these poor creatures
would have died of disease in a very short time, if they had not been
slaughtered; yet the carcasses of these diseased animals are prepared
for the market, and people eat freely of this poisonous food. Such a
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diet contaminates the blood and stimulates the lower passions.
Many parents act as if they were bereft of reason. They are in a
state of lethargy, palsied by the indulgence of perverted appetite and
debasing passion. Our ministers, who know the truth, should arouse the
people from the paralyzed condition and lead them to put away those
things that create an appetite for flesh-meat. If they neglect to reform,
they will lose spiritual power, and become more and more debased by
sinful indulgence. Habits that disgust the heavenly universe, habits
that degrade human beings lower than the beasts, are practiced in many
homes. Let all those who know the truth, say “Flee fleshly lusts that
war against the soul.”
Let not any of our ministers set an evil example in the eating of
flesh-meat. Let them and their families live up to the light of health
reform. Let not our ministers animalize their own nature and the nature
of their children. Children whose desires have not been restrained, are
tempted not only to indulge in the common habits of intemperance,
but to give loose rein to their lower passions, and to disregard purity
and virtue. These are led on by Satan not only to corrupt their own
bodies, but to whisper their evil communications to others. If parents
are blinded by sin, they will often fail of discerning these things.
To parents who are living in the cities, the Lord is sending the
warning cry, Gather your children into your own houses; gather them
away from those who are disregarding the commandments of God,