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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
Testimonies for the Church 2:64
Those who subsist largely upon flesh, can not avoid eating the meat
of animals which are to a greater or less degree diseased. The process
of fitting animals for market produces in them disease; and fitted in
as healthful manner as they can be, they become 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 had 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.
Testimonies for the Church 9:159-160
I have been instructed that flesh-food has a tendency to animalize
the nature, to rob men and women of that love and sympathy which
they should feel for every one, and to give the lower passions control
over the higher powers of the being. If meat-eating were ever healthful,
it is not safe now. Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely
caused by meat-eating....
Only when we are intelligent in regard to the principles of healthful
living, can we be fully aroused to see the evils resulting from improper
diet. Those who, after seeing their mistakes, have courage to change
their habits, will find that the reformatory process requires a struggle
and much perseverance; but when correct tastes are once formed, they
will realize that the use of the food which they formerly regarded as
harmless, was slowly but surely laying the foundation for dyspepsia
and other diseases.
Manuscript 22, 1887
There is now positive need even with physicians, reformers in the
line of treatment of diseases, that greater painstaking effort be made to
carry forward and upward the work for themselves, and to interestedly
instruct those who look to them for medical skill to ascertain the cause
of their infirmities. They should call their attention in a special manner
to the laws which God has established, which can not be violated