MH page 317

In all cases educate the conscience, enlist the will, supply good, wholesome food, and the change will be readily made, and the demand for flesh will soon cease.

Educating the conscience and will while supplying wholesome food facilitates the transition away from flesh foods. It outlines a method for behavioral and dietary transition involving education and volition.

Is it not time that all should aim to dispense with flesh foods? How can those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy, that they may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to use as food anything that has so harmful an effect on soul and body? How can they take the life of God's creatures that they may consume the flesh as a luxury? Let them, rather, return to the wholesome and delicious food given to man in the beginning, and themselves practice, and teach their children to practice, mercy toward the dumb creatures that God has made and has placed under our dominion.

Refraining from consuming animal flesh promotes spiritual purity and expresses mercy toward God's creatures. The paragraph is framed around spiritual purity, heavenly companionship, moral duty toward animals, and theological reasoning without testable empirical medical claims.