Should we eat flesh meats or do we need to stop eating meat?

Following is what Ellen G. White wrote about not eating meat and the effects of eating meat, under the heading ‘Evils of Meat Eating’.

The liability to disease is increased by flesh eating. We do not hesitate to say that meat is not essential to the maintenance of health and strength.

Those who subsist largely upon meat cannot avoid sometimes eating flesh which is more or less diseased. In many cases the process of fitting animals for market produces an unhealthy condition.

Shut away from light and pure air, inhaling the atmosphere of filthy stables, the entire body soon becomes contaminated with foul matter; and when such flesh is received into the human body it corrupts the blood, and disease is produced. If the person already has impure blood, this unhealthful condition will be greatly aggravated.

But few can be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has poisoned their blood and caused their suffering. Many die of diseases wholly due to meat eating, when the real cause is scarcely suspected by themselves or others.

Some do not immediately feel its effects, but this is no evidence that it does not hurt them. It may be doing its work surely upon the system, yet for the time being the victim may realize nothing of it.

Pork, although one of the most common articles of diet, is one of the most injurious. God did not prohibit the Hebrew from eating swine merely to show His authority, but because it is not a proper article of food for man.

God never created the swine to be eaten under any circumstances. It is impossible for the flesh of any living creature to be healthful when filth is its natural element, and when it feeds upon every detestable thing.

It is not the chief end of man to gratify his appetite…….Will the people who are seeking to become holy, pure, refined, that they may be introduced into the society of heavenly angels, continue to take the life of God’s creatures, and enjoy their flesh as a luxury?”

White, E. G. (1951) – Counsels on Health (A compilations from the published writings of Mrs. White as found in her books, leaflets, and periodical articles covering a period of over fifty years.) pg 115 – 116, PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Mountain View, California.

God's original diet did not include flesh meats.
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