1883, ISBN: 0217472664

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Paperback, [EAN: 9780217472661], General Books LLC, English, English, English, General Books LLC, Book, General Books LLC, General Books LLC, This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VII. ON SOME PRESSING PROBLEMS FURTHER AND FINALLY CONSIDERED. With many it is little short of an axiom that fleshmeat is necessary to strength, if not to health. With men it takes the form,' Without it, I should not be strong enough for my work;' with women, 'It may suit other people to give it up, but I am sure / should soon be ill without it.' Many actual vegetarians testify that until they tried the question fairly, they were fully persuaded that it could not suit them. Be it what it may to which we are accustomed, we are all liable to the delusion that there is in our constitution something peculiar which makes it needful to us. Without absolutely denying peculiarities of temperament, it is a fair axiom that there is some food normal to mankind, pre-eminently adapted to our animal nature in its earliest robust and wild state. Whatever this is, it is not rash to believe that such food must conduce to the greatest robustness of all who are normal men and women--all who have not a peculiarity almost morbid. Therefore vegetarians, believing that fruit and grain, pulse, roots and leaves were the primitive food, are very slow to believe in exceptional constitutions which cannot subsist on them. But it must be here added that very few English vegetarians wholly refuse what our physicians call a milk diet--that is, they do not refuse milk and eggs in moderation. If it be asked, 'What is moderation?' the present writer replies from his own practice, ' Not to take more of milk and eggs as a vegetarian than you took when you were a flesh-eater.' To make a run on these two articles must be deprecated. In advanced and confirmed vegetarianism we shall doubtless care for them less and less; in the future of mankind they may almost vanish away. We do not really need ..., 1000, Subjects, 1, Arts & Photography, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 3, Business & Investing, 3248857011, Calendars, 4, Children's Books, 12290, Christian Books & Bibles, 4366, Comics & Graphic Novels, 5, Computers & Technology, 6, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, 48, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, 21, Education & Reference, 301889, Gay & Lesbian, 10, Health, Fitness & Dieting, 9, History, 86, Humor & Entertainment, 10777, Law, 17, Literature & Fiction, 173514, Medical Books, 18, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, 20, Parenting & Relationships, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 173507, Professional & Technical, 22, Religion & Spirituality, 23, Romance, 75, Science & Math, 25, Science Fiction & Fantasy, 4736, Self-Help, 26, Sports & Outdoors, 28, Teens, 27, Travel, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780217472661

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Books Essays-on-Diet~~Francis-William-Newman General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ON SOME GRAVE NATIONAL PROBLEMS, WITH ESSAYS TOWARDS THEIR SOLUTION. When the name and practice of Vegetarianism is brought casually before an English man or woman, it is very generally regarded as fanciful and ridiculous. I will not deny that while I knew it myself only from a distance, I thought it a strange, perhaps even a silly fancy; hence I cannot be surprized that others, equally uninformed as I then was, so regard it. I have often heard the rather scornful question, made in a peculiarly decisive tone: ' What is the use of it ? '?of course the questioner implies the true and obvious answer to be, 'Absolutely none whatever.' Now, by way of reply, I take the liberty of asking some questions. Did you ever hear of such a thing as cattle murrain ? Did you ever hear of diseased meat in the market ? or of contagious disease spreading among foul eaters ? or are you at all aware of butcher's meat becoming very dear ? inconveniently dear for most, ruinously dear to hand-workers. Well, if these matters are familiar to you, I have one more question?Did you ever reflect on the causes of these things ? for you can hardly believe that they come without a cause. It is possible that many have never inquired into these causes, and my first attempt will be to aid in the research, by recalling many obvious and notorious facts. The easiest question to answer is?What is the cause of the high price of butcher's meat ? The reply is?An enormous increase of demand. The whole series of events is within the easy memory of those who are no longer young, yet may need to be shortly recapitulated to the new generation. I will first remark, that any great murrain in cattle (however caused) would naturally be followed by an increased price of meat. I do not overlook this, when I refer to the ...<

2010, ISBN: 9780217472661

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