Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

mind, but force no one: for such reformation made
under pressure is worthless, and they will surely go
back to a meat-eating diet. Enlighten the mind, that
God would be pleased to have the body free from
disease. The greatest cause of disease is in the food
taken into the system in large meat-eating. When
you remove the meat from the table, you have a
work to do to substitute articles of food tasteful and
appetizing in fruits and grains. Meat will soon be
forgotten in arousing the conscience and the
determined will brought into action. There is to be
no forcing the mind, but educating it to view the
subject from a right standpoint.
There needs to be presented to all students and
physicians, and by them to others, that the whole
animal creation is more or less diseased. Diseased
meat is not rare, but common. Every phase of
disease is brought into the human system through
subsisting upon the flesh of dead animals. That
feebleness and weakness in consequence of change
from meat diet will soon be overcome, and
physicians ought to understand that they should not
make the stimulus of meat-eating essential for
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