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The following article was reprinted from MOUNT ZION REPORTER, Editor A. N. Dugger. We believe it states the true meaning of God's Law and other related Scriptures about the eating of pork by man. With the additional information on the other pages we pray it will stop many from the error of disobeying God. Pastor Emry

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through prayer and make it clean. But notice just what it says here. It savs it is sanctified (set apart) by the WORD of GOD. Now 'what meats are set apart by the Word of God, and what meats were created to be received? In this text ·we have two positive statements, that it is the meat CREATED TO BE RECEIVED, and the other is the meats SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD OF GOD. The word "Sanctify", means to set apart for holy use. The unThe command was given to Noah after the flood to "Kill clean animals were never created to be received for food, and eat." There was a surplus supply prepared, for all vege- neither are they sanctified (set apart) by the Word, for food. tat ion was destroyed. It was necessary for them t.o eat, but In the previous scripture given in Leviticus 11th chapter. as the clean beasts entered thO'Ark by sevens, whIle the un- it is very easy to learn the meats that were set apart by the clean were taken bv twos. Genesis 7:2. it was not intended Word of God for food. and those created to be received. for Noah to eat the unclean ones. Therefore the very na- Therefore, let us not wrongly interpret these scriptures ture of the animal was such that it was not fit for food, and bring sickness and untimely death upon us. long before tne days of Moses. when definite lawswer~ After man sinned. There was a curse brought forth upon made regarding food. . the earth, and the earth produced thorns and briars, we are In the IIth chapter of Leviticus it is very c1ear~ygIven told. Also there was death. Then there needed to be buzwhat kind of flesh was intended for food. and the kmd that zards, vultures and pigs for scavengers to eat up the rotten was unclean. There are. however. certain texts in the New flesh of things that died. The pig is a scavenger. It has four Testament that people wrongly interpret, like the one ex- canals, one running down each leg with the outlet in the plained in the June issue, which I shall not repeat. bottom of the foot. When this outlet gets stopped up the Another text which is taken for an excuse to eat the pig gets down in the back and can't walk. I well remember swine is found in Acts 10th chapter where the apostle ~e- my folks calling an animal doctor when I was a boy at ter was shown in vision a sheet let down from heaven WIth home to see what was the matter with the hogs. as they all manner of four footed animals. and a voice said to him, had a big pen full of them. It had been a long spell of rain "Arise Peter, kiil and eat. What God hath cleansed call and the mud was thick. This outlet had got clogged up with thou not common." It is claimed that the swine and all mud. When the veterinarian saw them, he knew at once kinds of unclean creatures were cleansed, and can there- what was wrong. He dug the dirt and mud out of this outfore be eaten as good food without any danger to ones 1,,1. and the matter and puss squirted out in a strcJ.m. When heaith. This is man"s interpretation of the intentIon of the eating pork, the puss in these canals is eaten too. as food. vision, but in verse 28 we have the Spirit's interpretation. Hogs are scavengers, created for that purpose. StrychPeter says, "God hath SHOWN ME that 1 s~?uld call nine will not kill them. They eat poison and it passes off NO MAN, (not the animals) common or unclea~. So dear in this way. A rattlesnake infested patch of hill out in the reader let us believe what Peter says about It, and not western part of the U.S.A.. not so far from where we lived. some ~an's statement contrary to the scripture. was cleaned up by fencing and turning in a bunch of swine. Peter was here undergoing a test as to whether he should Bell Isle between Michi£an and Canada. was also infested ao in among Gentiles or not, as you will gather from read- with rattiesnakes. a very~poisonous snake. and it was clean~g the chapter. This was the way the Father chose to show cd up the same way. The hog is a product of the curse. and him that all menwere the same and the middle wall of par- by nature, scavengers like the buzzard and vulturt.'. - .. -tlrtonbetweerf the .Jewand the Gentilechad been brOk.en- -.When I was .a voilti!!mal1-at· home with-the folks. there down. Those led bv the Spirit. after knowing what it says were three women, all members of our religious group. in verse 28, will ~o longer misrepresent this lesson, but who never would eat pork. Everyone else ate it because will teach it as Peter tells us to teach it. they wrongly interpreted the foregoing scripture, as many Another fact worth noting here is that this was eight do now. I always believed there wasa purpose in the Fayears after Pentecost, and Peter says, ··1 have never ,eaten tber declaring swine to be unwholesome and dangerous anything common or unclean," Verse 14. Surely, If the food. so I watched these three women in after years. As swine had been cleansed by the shed blood on Calvary, as time went on, all of the men and women in our old neighmany claim. Peter would have known it, and would not borhood were dead. but these were still living. I was conhave been abstaining from eating the unclean meats for vinced bv that and also bv the stakment in Isaiah 66: 15these eight years. 1 am sure Peter's example is a good one 17, that ~wine was not for"human food. to follow. Everyone in our old neighborhood died from early fiftie:-. Another text frequenily used is found in I Timothy to middle sixties, but these women wt.'re living and going 4:3-5. It says that Spirit speaketh expressly ~hat in the strong. Twenty-five more years passed anLl they were the latter times some will forbid people to marry. and "com- same. One lived to over a hundred. and the other two up mand them to abstain from meats which God hath created in the nineties. One was my own mother. who would never to be received with thanksgiving. Every creature of God is eat the pork. good and nothing to be refused, if it be received with "And the swine, though he divide the hoof. and be clo"enthanksgiving. For it is sanctified (or set apart), by the Word of God and prayer. footed. yet be cbewetb not the cud; he is unclean to you:~ Many honestly believe that they sanctify swines flesh -Leviticus 11:7.

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10.-Ascarids infesting the small intestine of a pig. Some of the worms are protruding from, and a few are completely outside the intestine. (One-half natural size.)

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29.-Nests of iungworms in lower portion of swine lung partially cut open to show them; ~ungwormsremoved to show their size and shape (top).

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(The above would be true of humans also-NO CURE! Weakened by the parasites, they die of other diseases with no warning from doctors or ministElrs. Other pig carried worms would cause the same problems, g~neral weakening of health with the symptoms diagnosed as some other "disease." God alone knows how many humans die of hog parasites and diseases. The next page lists a few. Remember-,there are MANY, MANY MORE!)

----THEARIZONAREPUBLIC ,

DECEMBER 5,1969

ThePhoenixGazette_

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BENSON (AP) _ S~ate Rep. Hank Fenn, D-Cochise, has a~nounced plans !o introd!-'ce m the for.thcommg .sesSlon of. the ~lZona LegIslature ~Ills which would put teeth m. the law. go~ermn~ hog feedmg operatIOns m Anzona.

April 16, 1969

The People

Operations Alarm Fenn

Fenn's statement, following visits to pork feeding operation around the state read, in part: "One establishment I visitel I saw a hog being canni-. baliZed bLthe live ones. Not Jtriowmg from what the hog' had died makes this situation dangerous . . . " "One place was warned by the health department th~t dead animals must be properly disposed of after the discovery of several dead hogs partly covered up.

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Raw Garbage Fed To Swine Cause Of Several Diseases I

Et:'tor, The Arizona Republic: Responding to "The Reason Why" (Letter, April 12, 1969) in reference to the cooking of pig feed, I would like to refer everyone concerned to Arizona Revised Statutes Title 24-941 through 24-949 cov. ering the feeding of garbage to swine.

Earl Lee Newell of Mesa, and most people who read the newspaper story to Fenn outlined plans for the which he refers, had no way of knowing legislation in a letter to Why a hog feeder might be prosecuted House Speaker John Haugh, R-Pima. for not cooking hog feed.

HE SAID that persons who feed hogs are "also in a secondary sense" responsible for contI:ol of about 20 diseases ·.which humans can contract" from pork and pork products.

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The reporter failed to tell the public that an alleged garbage cooking violation was being lJeard in court, nor did he indicate the seriousness of the charge or the potential hazards both medical and financial to the consumers and tax paying public. THE ABOVE mentioned law requires 6terilization of garbage before feeding it to swine, and that is what the fuss is about. A list of over 20 swine 'diseases assodated WIth raw arba e feedin Inc es severa seases quite transmissiMe to the human population. They' inelude SalmoneHosis, undulant fever, Lis-, t~riosis,. ~rysipelasl Anthfa~, ~richimr SIS,tapeworm and. tubercu OSI~.

ONLY A FEW months ago some swine raisers had an experience with hO~choler in Arizona wlJich cost U. . and Arizona taxpayers about $50,000 cash. At the same time the State of Georgia was spending about $750,000 to control the same disease. .In England last year 300,000 animal.~ were burned or burled due to an outbreak of foot and mouth dIsease. Unemployment came so suddenly hi some quarters that whole towns ceased tQ. function. Jobs went with the animals. Sheep, swine, beef, and dairy farms in some of the affected areas are still without income from animal production. The whole problem is believed to have r,amed a foothold in swine fed impropery processed garbage. NEITHER cartoonist Reg Manning's little "Uno Who" nor Mr. Jo!m Q. Public is interested in reaching into his pocket to foot the bill for any hog feeder's negligence. WAYNE WUERTZ, Chairman, Livestock Sanitary Board of Arizona

Some garbage fect to swine comes Death List High from air bases serving long-range military aircraft. There is always a possibilDACCA, East Pakistan ity that hogs consumin raw arbage
Diseases From Asia Malaria and dengue, two potent enemies of American forces in the Asiatic-Pacific theater of World War II, have reappeared not only in areas of Southeast ASia where U.S. troops are serving, but are coming home to the mainland with returning servicemen and civilian personnel. Co!. James Hansen, Washington, D.C., deputy director of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, said malaria especially is being seen more and more by physicians here at home in patients who have served in the Malay peninsula. MALARIA, which behaves differently in different people, has even proved so resistive to some of the medications developed against it in World War II and later, said Colonel Hansen, that doctors are going back to an old standby of yesteryear - quinine. "Americans are immunological babies when they go to Southeast Asia," he said. And, because transportation has shrunk the world, disease has become a world-wide problem, he said. He said that, because of lack of sanitation and because of the heavy moisture and tropical nature of so much of Malaysia, diarrheal diseases are prevalent. But shigella and salmonella, two common types of dIarrheal diseases, are mere ageases as amebiasias and cholgravations alongside suchCITS~,he continued. IN KOREA last yea r, he said, 200 persons died in a cholera epidemic._More than 2,000 died of cholera in 1964, he added. ------Other diseases include liver and lung flukes, parasites which cause cancers and at>: scesses and cirrhosis. It was liver fluke disease which really defeated the French in 1954, said Colonel Hansen.