The advantages of vegetarian diet / by Bramwell Booth.

  • William Bramwell Booth
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
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Credit: The advantages of vegetarian diet / by Bramwell Booth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of young animals which are fattened and killed before the germs of many diseases have had time to develop so as to show themselves. So that many animals are killed, which though believed to be healthy, are really diseased. This is especially the case with calves for veal, young bullocks for beef, and with lambs and young pigs. 14. Because I believe that the great increase in consumption and cancer during the last hundred years has been caused by the great increase in the use of animal food, and that a strict vegetarian diet would greatly help to ward off these most terrible and incurable diseases. 15. Because I believe that a flesh diet brings on many very painful diseases, which though not perhaps immediately dangerous to life, cause much suffering and loss. I mean such complaints as eczema, constipation, piles, worms, dysentery, severe headaches, and the like. A vegetarian diet would do much to relieve if not cure them. 16. Because of the awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands of animals killed for human food are subjected in travelling long distances by ship and rail and road to the slaughter houses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty—whether to man or beast. 17. Because of the terrible cruelties practised in killing animals in many slaughter houses. The whole business of killing is cruel, even when it is done with care, and we know that in the case of millions of creatures it is done with very little care. Ten thousand pigs are killed for food every hour in Europe alone. 18. Because the occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to those who are required to do the work. ‘‘ The highest sentiments of humane men,’ says a certain writer, and I agree with him, “ revolt at the cruelty, the degrading sights, the distressing cries, the perpetual bloodshed, and all the attendant horrors which must surround the transit and slaughter of suffering creatures.” 19. Because a flesh diet is not necessary to hard work, A great part of the work of the world is done by animals which subsist on vegetable food, namely, horses, mules, camels, oxen, etc. Think on these things !
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