Then there's the website
www.madcowboy.com I think the time is far past when animal derived foods were safe. In fact when we came back to the SDA faith, it was 4 months before my head cleared after returning to a veggie diet, before I could begin to understand abstract concepts like I used to and relearn how to pray & study . Linda would discuss things with me & I would just have a blank look of non comprehension on my face, and that really scared her. We were always so intellectually on a par before, but that really scared her. She had to explain it to me later, it went over my head then.
Diet has a lot to do with the mind. What these quotes talk about happened to me, only God was able to draw me back. I experienced everything this quote talks about, it's all true.
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"Eating the flesh of dead animals is deleterious to the health of the body, and all who use a meat diet are increasing their animal passions and are lessening their susceptibility of the soul to realize the force of truth and the necessity of its being brought into their practical life.--Letter 54, 1896, p. 5. (To Dr. J. H. Kellogg, July 10, 1896.) {4MR 384.1}
Eating the flesh of dead animals has an injurious effect upon spirituality. When meat is made the staple article of food, the higher faculties are overborne by the lower passions. These things are an offense to God, and are the cause of a decline in spiritual life. . . . Whatever we do in the line of eating and drinking should be done with the special purpose of nourishing the body, that we may serve God to Him name's glory. The whole body is the property of God, and we must give strict attention to our physical well-being, for the religious life is closely related to physical habits and practices.--Letter 69, 1896, pp. 3, 5. (To Brother McCullagh, July 11, 1896.) {4MR 384.2}
The Lord has been teaching His people that it is for their spiritual and physical good to abstain from flesh eating. There is no need to eat the flesh of dead animals.--Letter 83, 1901, p. 1. (To "Dear Brethren and Sisters," July 15, 1901.) {4MR 384.3}
What we eat and drink has an important bearing on our lives, and Christians should bring their habits of eating and drinking into conformity with the laws of nature. We must sense our obligations toward God in these matters. Obedience to the laws of health should be made a matter of earnest study; for willing ignorance on this subject is sin. Each one should feel a personal obligation to carry out the laws of healthful living. {4MR 385.1}
Many turn away from the light, provoked because a word of caution is given, and ask, "May we not do as we please with ourselves?" Did you create yourselves? Did you pay the redemption price for your souls and bodies? If so, you belong to yourselves. But the word of God declares, "Ye are bought with a price," "the precious blood of Christ." The word of God tells us plainly that our natural habits are to be strictly guarded and controlled. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. If we diligently heed its precepts, we shall be conformed, physically and spiritually into the image of God.--Letter 103, 1896, pp. 10, 11. (To the workers in Sydney, July 17, 1896.) {4MR 385.2}
Indulgence in meat-eating, and tea-drinking and other forms of self-pleasing is injurious to the health of body and the soul. . . . Every indulgence of perverted appetite is a fleshly lust which wars against the soul. By your large meat-eating you are placing in your stomach that which animalizes you. While strengthening the animal propensities, you are weakening the higher, holier attributes, which you so need to cultivate. Your sensibilities are blunted, so that you cannot discern sacred things. {4MR 385.3}
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BTW TB in cattle is called Brucalosis (sp?) and people can & do get it. TB can affect any & every organ of the body, not just the lungs. When a dairy herd is milked all the milk goes in one tank. There is also bovine (cattle) Lukemia that transmits through dairy products. Cancer is a virus. There is also a virus that passes in dairy that destroys the iles of langrahand (sp) in the pancreas - AKA instant type 1 (brittle-insulin dependent) diabetes [the kind Newstart & CHIP can not reverse].
Perhaps after Sabbath I ought to see if any substitutionary recipes are posted for dairy. If you take away - replace with as good or better.
BTW Casin (the milk protein) accelerates tumor growth. I shudder to think how much casin I used to eat & drink in stubborness.
[ June 08, 2002, 12:03 AM: Message edited by: Edward F Sutton ]