| Show THE FOOD WE EAT rDe deseret sergt seret news i I 1 letter published last week has sd d enquiries enquiries fram many friend friends desire to ascertain something y ir concerning healthy diet and I 1 n atis e d to endeavor to answer ot tb their questions through the arf naf ot 01 the NEWS provided you erthe tr iatter latter of sufficient lelent gen to accord it space subject I 1 have chosen as proper low tho the artl arti article articie cle cie oa bread bready is 1 it AT lof food tood many people i toi regard gard as indis indispensable elsable en sable sabie and i i 1 consider themselves on het liet if they did not eat some once jat least I 1 purpose trying to i bat battue hat tiie tile daily use of meat is quite arious 0 us to tho the human body as the united tilted b lt d I 1 fine bread 4 aily ably ly the worst or alla alia kinds of I 1 1100 FLESH and of people in this territory as elsewhere eat it frequently guen quen atly itly in some form ham liam or bacon is it eaten te 1 I by many persons at nearly every meal and lard the concentrated essence of the filthy animal is used daily in cooking various articles of f food gods law unto the ancient israelites Israeli tes teb read reads and the swine is unclean unto you of their flesh shall ye not eat eaty and their carcass shall ye not touch modern israel the latter day saints and all other human beings have much Latich need heed faced to observe this divine law A common practice Is to fatten hogs on the rotting ref refuse use of slaughter ter pens decayed vegetables fermented swill in fact any garbage and refuse unfit to place before other animals Is is considered good enough for swine what kind of hesh flesh and fat can cau result from such fed feeding lg it Is a sei scientific ell eli eifle fact that every particle tile ticie of animal flesh Is filled with worn out matter working its way out of the system that is is decomposed animal tissues material similar to bile perspiration and other waste products of the body not polite to mention the blood also Is laden with this same kind of matter and if it an animal is not well weil bled when killed the MEAT IS ACTUALLY POISONED by it it is the presence of these waste products in meat that soon renders it putrid beef tea often highly recommended for invalids is shown by analysis to be essentially the same as urine physicians generally are convi convinced need that neuralgia brights disease of the kidneys and many other complaints lre are are frequently caused by an excess of uric acid in the system and it is quite reasonable to infer that the surplus of this acid may be attributed to toa a great extent to the use of meat as food also that balty salti salt sait and other condiments that are generally eaten with meat add greatly to the excess of uric acid the waste material spoken ot Is inthe in the flesh of human beings and all animals no matter how pure their food may be and one may easily 1 I vi imagine magine how much worse than all others the flesh or lard of swine must necessarily be that are fed as has been described if people will continue to eat that which li GOD ilas lias FORBIDDEN let them at least see that the naturally unclean thing is fed on rye as rec amended in the word of wisdom or some other wholesome food RIT R T trail trall INI MD D says z I 1 although tiesh flesh and wrease grease under the names of pork and lard are staple and favorite articles of food throughout ghou t christendom common observation has long since traced the prevalence of fula erysipelas and a variety of glandular and eruptive diseases resulting I 1 from impure blood to their general employment susanna IV dodds Dodd sM 11 D to whose book gile Ille health alth aith in the household I 1 am indebted for much valuable information I 1 to the use of hog bog meat and lard a large proportion of such diseases as typhoid fever diphtheria scrofula consumption etc in addition to that dreadful deathly infliction trichinosis diseases are multiplying among the swine themselves killing them annually by hundreds of thousands of the twenty million dollars wort worth 11 of hoos bogs in the thi e united states that were sik sie sick siek in 1877 about 59 per cent died ilas lias any one thought to inquire what became of the 41 percent per cent that recovered I 1 if we must eat our fellow creatures let us observe the law whatsoever the hoof and is cloven footed and chenweth the cud among the beasts that shall shail ye eat lev xi 3 the the the word of wisdom says yea fi esh flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air 1 I the lord have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving nevertheless tiley they are to be used sparingly I 1 and these hath god made for ia the use of man only in TIMES TEMES OF famine FAMINE and excess of hunger we read that the anger of the 11 almighty mighty was raised against the childr children childrers err of israel when t hev hey demanded flesh from moses s while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the lord was kindled against the people and the lord smote the people I 1 with a very great plague 11 numbers chap xi in view of these divine and und and scientific facts it is strange that so many people in this enlightened ae ago co continue litique to make animal food fool a ig leading e article of diet animal foo food ds of all others dit dif eaten be selected tea with the utmost care the animals themselves should be well livell fed well housed in winter and allowed to graze from open pastures in summer sum iper no animal should ever be stall fed or sty fed and none with carnivorous or omnivorous omal omni vorous habits should be used as food beware of diseased meats it is said that seventy severity nive five per cent of all animals killed for food are more or less diseased it frequently happens that animals are arc driven or carried in ill ventilated cars considerable distances without food or water and are killed before recover recovering from the effects of their journey such meat cannot be healthy the hebrews are very particular in selecting and killing the animals they want for food fob d carefully care carefully full fuli y drain draining inc inz all blood from the meat and discarding cascius if any signs of disease are discovered the fact that lojews died from cloera cb oera aurit the recent epidemic in italy and prance france was attributed to their careful dietetic habit ln I 1 kg W nt 0 MEAT IS NOT ESSENTIAL to human beings as an article of f food nel nei neither theris is it natural for them to use it the most eminent natural natura naturalists lists ats assert that the teeth the stomach the bowels and indeed the whole of the internal and external structure 0 of f man clearly indicate his adaptation to a fruit farinaceous and vegetable diet flesh taken into the stomach is heating beating and stimulating of animal passions as illustrated by all animals that live on flesh they are vicious savage and dangerous this stimulating quality undoubtedly has the enn eff effect act of increasing thirst and the appetite in man for strong drinks it is a mistake to eat mea meat t in preference to vegetable food for lor the purpose ot of acquiring strength rollin the historian states that in the training for the public games in greece where there mu muscular s cular strength was exhibited in all its varied forms vegetable food was adhered to but when flesh meat was adopted afterwards those hitherto athletic men became sluggish and stupid I 1 scotland and ireland have raised millions of strong men and beautiful women on oatmeal and potatoes the great populations of india china and japan subsist principally upon rice A vegetable diet is the rule with the tile hard working peasantry of europe from spain and Port rort portugal utai to russia and turkey where the strongest and hardiest handiest har diest men in the world may be seen living on brown bread and grapes or figs MEAT IS EXPENSIVE in a pound of wheat meal peas oatmeal rice cornmeal corn meal or other grains there is from three to five times more nourishment than is contained in an equal weight of the best beef seventy per cent of butcher meat is water man requires in his food a larce large e proportion of carbonaceous material which is found prolifically in vegetable productions wheat containing about seventy five percent per cent while lean beef contains only ten per cent one of the most convincing ar arguments u that can be produced to s show ow how bow unnecessary meat is as an article of food is found in the first chapter of daniel danieli in which is related that beautiful incident of his youthful youth tul tui life wherein he and three others of the noble captive children of israel refused to DEFILE themselves WITH MEAT from the kin kings kinis Is table the result of maeir living wn on pulse a vegetable similar to peas and water that was at the end of three years when these theste four lour were compared with the others who had bad been fed on the kin kings Is meat daniel and his three companions were found to be the fairest and fattest and among them all in matters of wisdom and understanding that the kin kinc kins enquired of them he found und them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in bis his r realm e alm aim I 1 I 1 I 1 fear my remarks are getting too lengthy for a ue newspaper ar article acle 1 I 1 will therefore close clos e lor for the present by simply stating that in my opinion meat as unfit for human food unless there is nothing else available D M mcallister sait gait lake city march 1885 1883 |
