New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-15
Mixed Diet......... For the Tribune

DEAR SIR: Having noticed in The Daily Tn
June of Wednesday, November 6, two articles
from your pen advocating the claims of abstinence
from animal food, | AM induced to send you this,
as the result of difference in opinion. believe
man requires miIed diet, in part consisting Of
the flesh of ANNALS
The argument for anatomy based upon the for
nation of the teeth and structure OF the alimen-
tary canal, notice with as little interest as your
self There are arguments sustaining the ground
| take, and need not the assistance of the above.
First, man is an organized being, and endowed
with life, great mysterious principle that seems
linked with God. Intimately connected with this
great principle and peculiar to all animals, is
roasting of the structure OF the body, process
materially affected by heat and cold, physical and
mental exercise Thus this wasting is small and
the consequent need OF repatriation diminished III
ineotive and cold. blooded animals, with temporal
ture scarcely above the atmosphere. Says Car
penter "the 1c0Ste requires to be supplied by
fJyia0us substances" Flbrin is substance pro-
cured in its most characteristic state from animal
matter. 1t exists in chyle 1t enters into the
composition of the blood OF it the ch1et part d
animal fest is formed and hence it may be con
sidered the most abundant constituent OF the soft
solids of animals And now, Mr. Alcott, if the
wasting is Confined to the soft solids, which is
fact in emaciaton, and the soft solids consist prin
cipally OF F6rln why is 1t not PHILOSOPHICAL to sup
ply the waste by substances furnishing the article
in its most characteristic state
By physical exercise the heat OF the body is
augmented, the araStlhS furthered, and the natu
raj result, greater call Tor nutrlment Reptiles
and ALTERNATING animals may SubsiSt Tor long
period upon nm amount of ibrnOus substance that
would not sustain more active ones an eighth OF
the time. An individual of active habits requires
more food than one hose life is sedentary and
also the individual that is growing rapidly more
than the one whose physical system las found It's
acme in development.
As connected with these facts we are brought
to the consideration OF the appetite. Hunger and
thirst come under this head, the former sald to
originate in the stomach, the latter in the throat
Saws Andrew Combe, :" il the relation between
waste and appetite be real, 1t is the safest guide
we can follow in determining when and how
much we ought to eat say nothing Of the re-
ation of taste and waste, the former Of which
seems SO COMPOUNDED in your letters to the Tn
6aae with appetite. a person ofsedentary habits
and body full grown, for instance, sitting down to
table three times in day and partaking heartily
at two of these sittingS OF animal food with con.
diments in prolusion, and with all the stimuli
possible to be obtained changes the dish daily, he
NAV be said to exercise his taste, but the man
who laborS mentally and physically, and only
when t0lclbly reminded that the system wants
sustaining, that the waste needs reparatlOn, hnds
time to attend to such calls, and then makes use
OF plain fare, is doubtless guided by his appetite.
Mr. Acott, / believe it our duty to preach up
this to mankind that SIX days shalt thou labor,
and il by so doing the race be made to see clearer
that labor is the great end and object OF existence
IN that the sleep of the aboring man is sweet
whetherho eat little or much, and health wealth.
and happiness are their possessions, think yege-
NT0Oi1 nj No yaolODc to HoA cbaltar FIR
the transgressor of natural laws
on say the necessity OF Carbon is the argu
ment generally thrust III front Of the battle field
in latter days, by sticklers for animal food but
If our present theory of animal heat be correct
may not the Carton be for its support, and .f6rn
best serving the purpose OF nutrition, the best
substance for repairing the waste OF the soft
solids Carton exists in abundance both in
vegetables and the flesh OF animals, and who pro-
nounces that OF either the best adapted to the
system, If so we get the necessary supply?
Let the habits of life and the climate in which
We live speak they will telt-as sure as the laws
Of God are Just, through the natural demands OF
the combined economy-any person whether it be
best to partahe OF vegetable or animal food
Were it not so, would not the person requiring
considerable amount OF f6rsn, and having predi
lection for vegetable diet, be so treightlng the
stomach with potatoes and chestnuts' as to kill
HIM IN a twelye-month from the stimulus Of
qnaatlfy, and, on the contrary, the grand speci
mems OF cogitatins inactivity, with inkling to
mutton chop, be so disproportiong fbrnous in
gesta to the waste OF the body, as to generate
disease?
AS it strikes me, the corps of vegetarians
seem hunting down. with inquiry and ''phoso.
ply, principle that--ike Religion-to be
healthy must exist unconscious mean the Gp-
ptttte-aud, as it We're, diving for the first ceuse
that in the laws Of Nature, inclines men to
hunger and thirst differently. Wouldit not be as
well for all 10 be engaged IN such vehement chase
Tor the definition Of health; and if told that the
condition OF the body in which each organ per
forms its function unconsciously, UNDECIDED and
that arrangement existed the moment one of
these organs proclaimed separate existence