Health Reform
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The time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter because disease in animals is increasing in proportion to the increase of wickedness among men. The time is near when, because of the iniquity of the fallen race, the whole animal creation will groan under the diseases that curse the earth. Ellen G. White, Counsels on Diet and Foods, 1902. (p. 356)
MILK, The Deadly Poison, By Robert Cohen © 1998. Milk
in the 21st Century will be quite different from the milk that
was produced in the 19th Century. Cows used to graze in fields
and eat grass. Today their diets are supplemented with bone meal and blood
meal and ground body parts from the byproducts of slaughterhouse renderings.
In 1960 the average cow yielded nine quarts of milk per day. Today, thanks
to new techniques including the increased use of antibiotics, selective
breeding and genetic engineering, the average dairy cow yields 24 quarts of
milk per day.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be
meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with
the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis 9:3-4
It is not a sin to eat meat, but one's
religious life will be more successfully strengthened if meat were eliminated
from the diet. The Bible affirms, when God created man, He ordained the fruits
of the earth to be his food. But after the flood, man was given permission to
eat flesh. Well, here is a commandment in one place and a permission in the
other. Which should Christians prefer as a rule of action?
Raising animals for meat eating is a wasteful method of food production.
One acre of beef production
provides 7.7 days worth of protein for the average person
One acre of whole wheat provides
877 days worth of protein for the average person
One acre of beans provides 2,234
days worth of protein for the average individual
The cost of water to raise one
pound of meat is 25 times greater than that for growing one pound of
vegetable food.
Meat is an inferior source of vitamins and minerals
Meat is rich in phosphorus but
poor in calcium
Grains, vegetables and nuts
furnish an abundance of phosphorus and calcium and have more iron than meat
Dried beans have three times as
much iron as beef
Most flesh meats are muscle
meats, which are low in vitamins
Flesh foods are very high in fats and protein, which are injurious to human
health. Protein places an added load on
the liver and hepatic cells Animal fat is a leading cause of
arteriosclerosis and aging Each gram of meat suffers a small
percentage of contamination of colon germs (feces) during the act of
slaughtering Science has proven that a flesh
diet is not essential. The largest percentage of the earth's population eats
very little or no meat. It is the industrialized countries in the past 100
years that have begun to over indulge in flesh eating. In a Yale University study 15
flesh eaters were asked to hold their arms outstretched to the side. Only 2
of them managed to keep them horizontal for 15 minutes. 22 of 34 vegetarians
held their arms horizontal for 15 minutes and 15 of those 22 lasted half an
hour, with 1 enduring for three hours. A flesh diet is known to increase
the baser passions and deteriorate the morals, contributing to a lessened
spiritual life. Flesh eating also promotes brutality and animalism. In
ancient times tribal chiefs and warriors were fed more flesh than the
ordinary people. Man was ordained to rule over,
not prey upon the creatures below him, not to raise creatures for the sake
of devouring them. Almighty God, the Master Designer
and Creator of our bodies has given us full freedom of choice to improve or
destroy our most important possession. By honoring the Creator we not only
fulfill our mission, but also multiply our personal health and happiness. It
can be said with surety, "a healthy body is life's wisest investment."
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"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5
Distinctive Truth
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