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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Mar 20, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 12.

Fish

By Editor

2025.—Fish.

Is fish meat? SUBSCRIBER.

What is meant by the term "meat"? Meat sometimes covers the same idea as food. It is a common thing for an old English farmer to ask his servant, "Have you given the horses their meat?" We use the same term when speaking of the meat of the nut, meaning that substance which is used for food. Of course fish is not the flesh of quadrupeds, it is the flesh of fish, and therefore is animal and not vegetable. Fish is truly a kind of flesh, notwithstanding the alliteration of "flesh, fish, and fowl." All these are flesh; one may be the flesh of the ox, another the flesh of fowl, and the other the flesh of fish.

The matter of condemning the eating of flesh rests between the one who eats it and the Judge of all. We do not recall any instance where one is put under condemnation for eating fish. It is, however, pointed out to us that many times these are very unwholesome and utterly unfit for food, and more and more as the earth nears the end, will all such foods as this become unfit to eat.