Ellen G. White (1827-1915), a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, encouraged the community to abstain from animal products for the sake of spiritual and physical health, as well as out of compassion towards animals as sentient creatures of God. Her statements about the latter cause were very rare in those days. For instance, she wrote in a book chapter entitled “Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods”:-
Is it not time that all should aim to dispense with flesh foods? How can those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy, that they may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as food anything that has so harmful an effect on soul and body? How can they take the life of God's creatures that they may consume the flesh as a luxury? Let them, rather, return to the wholesome and delicious food given to man in the beginning, and themselves practice, and teach their children to practice, mercy toward the dumb creatures that God has made and has placed under our dominion. (White 1905: 317.2)
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Source: Ellen, Gould White (1905). “Reasons for Discarding Flesh.” In The Ministry of Healing, Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, pp. 313-317. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/135.1584
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