Health and Spiritual Risks 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.

A woman who desires to have a child must recognize that her personal habits and diet directly shape the physical, mental, and moral constitution of her future offspringAH 256.1+1. Her choices regarding self-control and nutrition are of such vital importance that they determine whether a child will be born with a sound constitution or with unconquerable tendencies toward evil and diseaseAH 256.1+1.

The Law of Prenatal Influence

• A Sacred Trust: The character of a child depends significantly more on the mother’s habits before birth than on any external advantages provided later in life1MCP 135.2+1.

• Reflecting the Mother's Disposition: If a mother is self-indulgent, impatient, or exacting before the birth of her child, these very traits will be reflected in the child’s dispositionAH 256.1+1.

• Divine Instruction: God regards prenatal influence as a matter of the highest importance, having sent an angel twice to give explicit instructions that a mother must exercise strict temperance and self-denial Judges 13:14CE 232.1+2.

• Accountability for Future Generations: Mothers are held accountable by God for the physical health and moral characters they transmit to their offspring1MCP 138.1+1.

Dietary Requirements for Mother and Child

• Nourishing Two Lives: During pregnancy, a woman requires an increase of the most nourishing, high-quality food to create the extra blood necessary to sustain both herself and the developing lifeAH 256.1+2.

• Consequences of Poor Nutrition: If a mother is deprived of abundant, wholesome food, her circulation becomes poor, and the child is robbed of vitality and the ability to convert food into good bloodTSDF 29.4+2.

• Rejecting Harmful Cravings: The idea that a woman may let her appetite "run riot" or indulge in harmful foods like rich pastries, pickles, or spiced meats simply because she fancies them is a dangerous mistakeAH 256.1+2.

• Simplicity and Principle: Mothers should avoid "exciting" or innutritious foods and instead adhere to a simple, nutritious diet based on reason and principle rather than fitful impulseAH 256.1+1.

Physical and Mental Safeguards

• Conserving Vitality: A woman’s labor should be lightened during this period to prevent exhaustion, which can rob the offspring of physical and mental strength1MCP 132.4+2.

• Proper Clothing: It is essential for the mother to wear warm, sufficient clothing to protect her body from chilliness and ensure healthy circulation for the childAH 256.1+2.

• Mental State: A mother should constantly encourage a happy, cheerful, and contented disposition, as her thoughts and feelings powerfully influence the legacy she gives her child1MCP 132.1+2.

• The Father's Role: Husbands must support this process by providing nutritious food, lightening the wife's burdens, and ensuring the home environment is pleasant and free from needless stress1MCP 132.4+2.

Avoiding Irreparable Harm

• Transmitting Appetites: A mother who does not control her own appetite may transmit an insatiable craving for stimulants and a low degree of morals to her childEP 403.5+2.

• Dangers of Excessive Child-bearing: Frequent child-bearing without time to recover strength exhausts vital energies and often results in offspring who lack physical and mental worth4MR 380.1+3.

• The Burden of Ignorance: Many children suffer their entire lives from feebe digestive powers and impoverished blood because their parents did not understand or follow the laws of life and health before the child was bornTSDF 29.4+2.

By following these principles of self-control and healthful living, a mother fulfills her sacred mission to prepare her children for a life of usefulness and a home in the world to comeCCh 143.2+1.

Eating chicken meat can have profound negative effects on a woman desiring a child by corrupting her blood quality, animalizing her nature, and transmitting a legacy of disease and weakened self-control to her offspringAH 256.1+1. Choosing to consume the flesh of dead animals during this sacred time is a mistake that directly impacts the physical and moral constitution of the next generationSpM 211.2+1.

Contamination of the Mother's Blood

• Poor Blood Quality: Flesh meat cannot make good blood; instead, it poisons the system, meaning the mother cannot furnish the high-quality blood necessary to nourish a second lifeTSDF 29.4+1.

• Transmission of Disease: Because many animals are killed while their blood is in a high state of fever or are already diseased, a mother who eats this meat may transmit "humors," scrofula, and inflammatory conditions to her childTSDF 29.4+2.

• Vitality Robbed: When a mother depends on the temporary stimulus of meat rather than wholesome nutrition, her offspring is robbed of vital energy and may be born with feeble digestive powersTSDF 29.4+1.

Impact on the Child's Disposition

• Strengthening Animal Passions: The use of flesh meat animalizes the nature of the consumer, strengthening the lower propensities and decreasing the intellectual and moral powersSpM 211.2+1.

• Unconquerable Tendencies to Evil: If a mother indulges her appetite for meat against the dictates of reason, she may enstamp upon her child a passion to gratify debased appetites that will be almost impossible for the child to overcomeAH 256.1+1.

• Loss of Spirituality: A meat diet tends to lessen spirituality and rob a woman of the sympathy and love she should feel, a condition that is then reflected in the disposition of her unborn childAH 256.1+1.

The Danger of Stimulants and Cravings

• Exciting the System: Meat is of an exciting quality that creates an unnatural action of the heart and a craving for even stronger stimulants like liquor or tobaccoTSDF 66.9+2.

• Failure of Self-Control: By the command of God, a mother is under a solemn obligation to exercise self-control, yet eating meat often leads to letting the appetite run riot, which does inestimable harm to the developing child Judges 13:14TSDF 29.4+1.

• A "Misfit" for Mission: A mother who neglects her own health by eating unhealthful foods like flesh meats may find her physical and mental strength so lessened that she becomes an invalid, unable to perform her sacred duties18LtMs, Lt 200, 1903, par. 5+1.

The Better Way for Future Mothers

• Nutritious Alternatives: Muscular strength and good blood are better supplied by grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables, which contain all the nutritive properties necessary for a mother and her childCCh 231.1+1.

• Simplicity and Principle: Mothers who possess principle will choose a simple diet, knowing that God designed fruit and the products of the earth to be the meat for mankind Genesis 2:9TSDF 29.4.

• Divine Approval: When a mother denies a perverted appetite for flesh and adopts the light of health reform, she places herself where God can co-operate with her in the training of her child19LtMs, Ms 50, 1904, par. 16.