Show PORK AS FOOD thic THE communication in our columns yesterday upon the subject of pork as an article of diet was in a peculiar way quite impressive the writer is a gentleman of orthis this city whose veracity we have no reason to doubt and the facts stated therein herein came within his own observation his subject was a nauseating one through no fault of his but the intellects ot some people can be reached through their stomachs more easily than by argument and it is in this way that the communication under consideration was impressive the sio stomach mitch blat could contemplate without a qualm a fry f from rom a hogs liver djs die eased as pur our correspondent declares many 0 of those organs of the hundred hogs he saw killed were or that could receive with relish a roast from the ribs of an animal that was dying of con consumption mut t be of a lined I 1 I 1 copper order that a relation of cause and effect exists between a persons sins and the diseases he is suffering from is a doctrine worthy of wider and firmer credence than it has ever received at least in modern times though among the jews anciently it appears to have been generally and more or less intelligently be believed lieveld while not by any means all of the sickness from which any I 1 given individual may suffer can be traced to his personal ments of the law of nature it remains a fact that disease is the result ot the violation of law either upon the part of the sufferer or of some one else whose acts have affected him these violations may consist in a departure itom the rules laid down in revelation or taught taught by nature for our oui guidance and w while lie mankind have not generally attributed in any marked degree a moral quality V to sets acts that merely injure the health of the body a higher conception of the truth in relation to this subject teaches that those acts are sinful f ni in the same sense in which vula violations of the moral law are what we shall eat and drink and the treatment we shall give to the tabernacles that clothe the immortal part of us thus becomes a matter of righteousness or sin a matter of purity and holiness or of iniquity and consequent chastisement I 1 in U the light of these conclusions what is the moral condition of that f father ather who feeds himself and family upon such food as was described by our correspondent or of that household who devour such vile stuff while congratulation congratulating themselves upon having a nice home hom era e ra raised sed article to eat had our correspondent told of sights witnessed by him in the shambles of some soine eastern pork packing city our readers here in utah pro probably ably would not have been deeply affected thereby as each purchaser of an eastern ham or piece of imported bacon could have laid to his soul the flattering unction that there was no evidence that the particular piece of ewines flesh purchased sV by him was diseased but when one of our citizens intelligent observing and truthful rises up and ana narrates such a tale about the pork we at ho home me are producing and eating it ought to check the consumption eption ot of that article in our midst science and experience confirm what the lord has already caught the latter day saints b by re revelation uon namely that a meat d diet let does does not tend to health nor longevity but if meat must be eaten let that which is healthful f ua be chosen and the u lee leerean reas fans unspeakably p filthy kauff described ascribed scribed by our correspondent be shunned with abhorrence |