Vegetarians, have you thanked the 7th Day Adventists lately?

Question

Please note I am not a 7th Day Adventist.

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Another early health food advocate was Sister Ellen White, a leader in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and a founder of the Health Reform Institute in the late 1800s. A strong advocacy for vegetarianism emerged from this group. It may have been this movement that created the need for the first health food stores. The Adventists created the first meat analogs (meat substitutes with meat-like texture) in the United States.END QUOTE
http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/health/Healthy_Eating/What_Is_Health_Food.htm

Wow Bad Liberal, it kills you that much to give some credit where it's due?

Thanks for all that detail. Once again, you cannot bring yourself to even acknowledge a tiny positive benefit that stems from religion, which is all this post was about. If you actually read it, I was not trying to claim that 7th Day A's "invented" anything, with the exception of fake meat here in the USA.
I am simply stunned that you are so angry toward religion you cannot manage to give a simple "thank you" to a group of people you would normally disagree with. This post isn't about Atheists or who was the first vegetarian in the world. This post was about sharing knowledge and giving thanks to a group of people I wouldn't normally want to thank for anything. It seems you can't even bring yourself to do that. How sad.
Instead of looking at the accomplishment I mention, you throw out your best "well Atheists did it first" piece of evidence and then completely ignore everything else that was said.

And you STILL just can't say "thanks." Simply amazing.

Answer 1

Poet Percy Shelley and his wife the novelist Mary Shelley were vegetarians long before this. They weren't alone. The earliest vegetarians I know of in Britain (at the end of the 1700s) were linked to the radical left (anti-monarchy, anti-slavery, pro-women's rights, pro-democracy, pro-American independence etc).

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Your Add Dets are very ill-tempered in response to my simple statement of fact - quite uncalled for indeed. I pointed out that vegetarianism had antecedants at least 100 years before the SDA were promoting it so where IS credit due? It no more kills me to give due credit than it apparently does you.

Oh, and I passed over the fact that in addition to being politically radical, the Shelleys were also atheists. Wanna give a shout out to 18th century leftist atheist vegetarian poets LEW? Perhaps the SDAs owe a debt to them.

GBS (1856-1950) was indeed a vegetarian AND a socialist AND a Christian, although of course he was later than the 18C radicals (though before the SDAs). As an elderly man he said that when he first took meat from his diet he was told by his doctors that it would kill him. When asked whether or not he had ever gone back to them to show them what an advanced age he had reached as a vegetarian, he said "I would, but they all died long ago".

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Be stunned then. I have said nothing here to justify such a tirade from you. I add nothing in response as a thread like this is no place for undignified squabbling.

Answer 2

I love reading the Seventh Day Adventists' magazine, Liberty. Online at www.libertymagazine.org though I subscribe to the print edition.

Fine people, upholding freedom of religion by fighting to preserve separation of government and religion.

Bad Liberal, I recall the George Bernard Shaw was also a vegetarian.

Answer 3

They invented fake meat? I knew there was a reason I didn't like um.

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Answer 4

Ellen White taught the "gospel of health must be firmly linked with the Scriptures". This proves from her own writings she was teaching a FALSE GOSPEL and for such is accursed, along with all of her adherants.