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heated and diseased by driving before they reach the market. The fluids
and flesh of these diseased animals are received directly into the blood,
and pass into the circulation of the human body, becoming fluids and
flesh of the same. Thus humors are introduced into the system. And
if the person already has impure blood it is greatly aggravated by the
eating of the flesh of these animals. The liability to take disease is
increased tenfold by meat-eating. 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. We say to you, dear brother and sister, your
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safest course is to let meat alone.
Testimonies for the Church 2:368
Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and
eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
The system is too heavily taxed in disposing of this kind of food. The
mince pies and the pickles, which should never find a place in any
human stomach, will give a miserable quality of blood. And a poor
quality of food, cooked in an improper manner, and insufficient in
quantity, can not make good blood. Flesh-meats and rich food, and an
impoverished diet, will produce the same results.
Testimonies for the Church 7:124
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.
Manuscript 115, 1903
Vegetables, fruits and grains should compose our diet. Not an
ounce of flesh-meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is
unnatural. We are to return to God’s original purpose in the creation
of man.