Chapter 8—The Importance of Historical Perspective
Ellen White and Vegetarianism
- Contents- Did She Practice What She Preached?
- Chapter 1—Three Typical Charges
- Chapter 2—A Chronology: Teaching and Practice
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- Chapter 4—The Brighton Camp Meeting: A Transition
- Chapter 5—The Question of Fish and Shellfish
- Chapter 6—The Allegation of Hypocrisy
- Chapter 7—Ellen White Not Our Criterion
- Chapter 8—The Importance of Historical Perspective
- Chapter 9—Conclusion
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Chapter 8—The Importance of Historical Perspective
Ellen White needs to be considered against the backdrop of her times, not ours! Conditions in her times were quite different from those that obtain today.EWV 27.1
Many household conveniences which we take for granted, such as refrigerators and food freezers for preserving fruits, vegetables, and other perishable foods, were virtually unknown in her time. In her day fruits and vegetables were available only in season. For much of the year fresh produce simply was not available, so that one either ate meat, or he didn’t eat at all. Meat eating was, therefore, more common (and generally more necessary) in Ellen White’s time than in ours—at least in today’s more developed countries.EWV 27.2
Something else worth remembering is that Ellen White never took away flesh food as an article of diet from anyone until there first was an adequate nutritional substitute available to take its place. 1The Ministry of Healing, 316, 317. The dry-cereal breakfast foods were not developed and marketed until the mid-1890s. Peanut butter, another excellent source of protein, also was not invented until the mid-1890s. 2Richard William Schwarz, John Harvey Kellogg: American Health Reformer (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964), p. 283. So there was often more reason—because of greater need—for people in her day to eat meat than there is for most of us in our day.EWV 27.3