Are all Seventh Day Adventists Vegetarians?

[BlueMoose]

Just wondering if someone can fill me in.

TIA,
Chrisi

[charlie]

I have a VERY good friends who belong to that religion and are not vegetarians. They do not however eat beef or pork.

[Tally]

I'm not sure of the exact basis or extent of it, but from what I understand, a healthy , mostly vegetarian, diet is an important part of their practice.

There's a chapter in Janet Luhr's book, The Simple Living Guide, that discusses the benefits of the diet. The author took cooking classes at a 7th Day Adventist Church.

[charlie]

Lest it be said: I am Catholic; and by European standards "they" deem as such, a "Cafeteria Catholic" (ie., you pick and choose those rules which apply to you), that stated, and the fact that I respect the beliefs of others(plus, I dearly love my friend who is 7th Day), this truly has me in a quandry:
http://www.diversityresources.com/health2k/ss-seventh.html

Decline the active participation in war?


And here are the guidlines written out in English...
http://northamerica.adventist.org/beliefs.htm

I will not however give my eclesiastic interpretation...

[makedah]

I know some who are vegetarians and others who eat no shellfish or pork and don't drink alcohol.

[tovie]

No, all of them aren't vegetarian. Although a lot are.

They basically follow the clean/unclean meats list in Leviticus in the Bible. Like no pork (mammals have to have cloven hooves and chew the cud or something like that to be allowed), seafood has to have fins and scales, etc.

They do eat beef (sorry charlie :-), chicken, lamb, venison, fish with fins and scales...

Tovie