The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by meat eating. The intellectual, the moral, and the physical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh meats. Meat eating deranges the system, beclouds the intellect, and blunts the moral sensibilities. However pure may be the flesh of the animals we eat, their fluids tend to engender in us a humorous state of the blood. The very process taken to fit the animals for market, tends to produce a diseased state of their fluids.
Animal food exposes the system more effectually to the causes of acute disease.
Where the fluids are in a diseased state, the ordinary causes of disease find a more easy prey. Its tendency is to check intellectual activity, to depreciate moral sentiment, and to derange the fluids of the body. It took more than two thousand years of indulgence of appetite and lustful passions to create such a state of things in the human organism as would lessen vital force. If Adam, at his creation, had not been endowed with twenty times as much vital force as men now have, the race, with their present habits of living in violation of natural law, would have become extinct. Thanks to Dr. Ronald Numbers for his research on the above material, which was taken from his book Prophetess of Health .