This is one of God’s laws that most people are breaking, usually without knowing it. The Bible, both in the Old Testament and New Testament, states very clearly that God requires us to abstain from eating meat with blood in it.
Given by God to Noah:
Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Given by God in the Statutes and Judgments:
Lev 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
See also Lev. 7:26-27; 17:13-14; 19:26; Deut. 12:16, 23; 15:23
Given by God in the Apostles words to the Gentile Converts:
Act 15:28-29 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Given by God through Ellen White:
“As a family, you are far from being free from disease. You have used the fat of animal which God in His word expressly forbids: “It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.” “Moreover, ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.” {CD 393.}
This law God gave about not eating meat with blood and fat in it is obviously still just as binding of a law as it always was. But most people who eat meat are breaking this law without realizing it. Virtually all meat you can buy in the grocery store or at a restaurant has blood in it. Blood is part of what gives meat its flavor and color. The only way to get meat which has been drained of the blood is to either kill the animal yourself and drain the blood or buy it from a Jewish store that sells “Kosher” meat.
“After the giving of the law, God gave Moses specifications regarding the law. These specifications are plain and explicit. No one need make a mistake…In the day of judgment we shall be asked whether we have lived in harmony with these specifications.” {AUCR, March 25, 1907}