Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

I thought so too, but I know that in His original
plan, God did not provide for the flesh of dead
animals to compose the diet for man. It is a gross,
perverted taste that will accept such food. To think
of dead flesh rotting in the stomach is revolting.
Make fruit the article of diet to be placed on
your table, which shall constitute the bill of fare.
The juices of it mingled with bread will be highly
enjoyed. Good, ripe, undecayed fruit is a thing we
should thank the Lord for, because it is beneficial
to health. Try it. To educate your children to
subsist on a meat diet is harmful to them. It is
much easier not to create an unnatural appetite than
to correct it and reform the taste after it has become
second nature. Our Sanitariums should never be
conducted after the manner of a hotel. I am sorry it
is such a difficult matter for you to deny your
appetites and reform your habits of eating and
drinking. 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
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