The Hidden Dangers of Eating Chicken Meat

Eating chicken meat is highly detrimental to your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, as it introduces disease into the system and strengthens animalistic passionsEGWSCC 1.12+2. While some may believe chicken is a lighter or safer option, it is a significant contributor to serious illness and a clouded intellectHL 101.6+1.

Impact on Physical Health

• Disease Contamination: The whole animal creation is more or less diseased, and eating chicken meat can lead to cancers, tumors, and pulmonary affectionsEGWSCC 1.12+2.

• Inflammatory Results: Flesh diet is a primary cause of inflammatory diseases and fails to make the good, pure blood required for a healthy systemHL 99.4+1.

• Putrefaction and Poisoning: Many die from diseases wholly caused by meat eating because the flesh essentially poisons the bloodCCh 229.7+1.

• False Strength: The feeling of strength derived from meat is merely a temporary stimulus; true muscular vigor is better supplied by grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetablesCG 384.1+1.

Mental and Spiritual Consequences

• Clouded Intellect: Consuming chicken meat beclouds the brain, making it impossible to maintain an active intellect or a clear understanding of truthHL 101.6+1.

• Animalized Nature: A flesh diet has a tendency to animalize a person's nature, robbing them of love and sympathy while giving lower passions control over the higher powers of the beingEGWSCC 1.12+1.

• Spiritual Insensitivity: Meat eating lessens the susceptibility of the soul to realize the force of truth and hinders a successful religious life4MR 384.1+1.

The Nature of Modern Meat Production

• Suffering and Stress: The process of shipping animals in crowded, swaying cars causes extreme fright and nervous tension, making the meat unfit for consumptionARSH November 29, 1898, page 767.5.

• Deceptive "Ripeness": Commercial practices often involve letting meat "ripen" for weeks, which is essentially a state of rotARSH November 29, 1898, page 767.1+1.

• Universal Curse: Because of human transgression, a curse has fallen upon the cattle and the fowls of the air, making their flesh increasingly dangerous to consume18MR 353.4+1.

Divine Instruction and the Better Way

• Original Plan: In the beginning, God did not include animal food in the diet appointed for man, providing instead every herb and fruit-bearing tree Genesis 1:29-30CG 384.1.

• Lessons from History: When the Israelites lusted after flesh, God gave it to them in His wrath, resulting in a great plague while the meat was still in their teeth Numbers 11:31-33EVCO 241.3+1.

• Call to Reform: Those preparing for the coming of the Lord will eventually do away with all meat eatingCCh 231.7+1.

• Trust in God: We are encouraged to seek first the kingdom of God and trust that He will provide for our needs through the wholesome grains, fruits, and nuts He has provided Matthew 6:33ST July 2, 1894, par. 6+1.

Choosing to discard chicken meat is a step toward regaining the "first dominion" of peace and health that God originally designed for His children Micah 4:8ARSH March 12, 1861, page 133.16. It is a decision that preserves the body as a temple and keeps the mind open to divine guidanceTSDF 171.3+1.