Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

Chapter 55
Meat Diet and Life in Cities
From MS. 133, '02 (P).
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 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
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