Latter Day Vegetarian » Animals http://latterdayvegetarian.com Healthy Living for Latter Day Saints Fri, 18 May 2012 05:18:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lorenzo Snow, President of the Quorum of the Twelve, 5 May 1893 http://latterdayvegetarian.com/lorenzo-snow-president-of-the-quorum-of-the-twelve-5-may-1893 http://latterdayvegetarian.com/lorenzo-snow-president-of-the-quorum-of-the-twelve-5-may-1893#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:03:07 +0000 admin http://s193230248.onlinehome.us/latterdayvegetarianwp/?p=54 [President Lorenzo Snow paid] special attention to that part [of the Word of Wisdom] which relates to the use of meat, which he considered just as strong as that which related to the use of liquors and hot drinks. . . .

[President Snow] was convinced that the killing of animals when unnecessary was wrong and sinful, and that it was not right to neglect one part of the Word of Wisdom and be too strenuous in regard to other parts. [in Journal History of the Church, 5 May 1893, pp. 2–3, LDS Archives.]

]]> http://latterdayvegetarian.com/lorenzo-snow-president-of-the-quorum-of-the-twelve-5-may-1893/feed 0 Brigham Young, President of the Church, 17 May 1868 http://latterdayvegetarian.com/brigham-young-president-of-the-church-17-may-1868 http://latterdayvegetarian.com/brigham-young-president-of-the-church-17-may-1868#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:54:31 +0000 admin http://s193230248.onlinehome.us/latterdayvegetarianwp/?p=24 We should take a course to preserve our lives and the lives of the animals committed to our care. We should refrain from using swine’s flesh. [“Evidences That the Saints Love and Serve God—How to Build up Zion—Taking Care of Grain,” reported by Edward L. Sloan, Journal of Discourses, vol. 12 (Liverpool: Albert Carrington, 1869), p. 218.]

]]> http://latterdayvegetarian.com/brigham-young-president-of-the-church-17-may-1868/feed 0 Son-in-law of George Albert Smith, President of the Church http://latterdayvegetarian.com/son-in-law-of-george-albert-smith-president-of-the-church http://latterdayvegetarian.com/son-in-law-of-george-albert-smith-president-of-the-church#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:52:34 +0000 admin http://s193230248.onlinehome.us/latterdayvegetarianwp/?p=20 In the summer, he [President Smith] eats no meat, and even in the winter months he eats very little. [in Gerald E. Jones, PhD Dissertation entitled Concern for Animals as Manifest in Five American Churches: Bible Christian, Shaker, Latter-day Saint, Christian Scientist, and Seventh-Day Adventist (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1972), p. 111.]

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