The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-03-22
MAN A VEGETARIAN.
THAT, 1T is ASSERTED. is WHAT MA
TURE INTENDED.
lie Ifns Become IN Omnivorous AMI
NAL Artihcinli> nnd. one Scicntist
Says. liz Trying linrd to nccnmc "a
Ti&-SOme Alarming. 'rhrorir.

Pi&-Some Alarming Theories.
Looking at vcgoiarani>n in the light
Of comparative anatomy it is self evi.
...nt that man WIS designed 10 be n
vegetarian and nothing else Qnadru-
pcds are divided into classes accor,iin..
to their foods. ana with the single cx.
repton of man. no animal rs Il class has
ever varied from the design of nature
These classes are the cnrnivoro,,s or
flesh eating. the fruit eating. the .rass
eating and the omnvorons Each of
these classes has distinctive organs
adaptable 10 the digestion of the kind
of food 1t eats and to no other kinds
Man has ariitically become an ON.
nivorous animal III spite cf the fact
that ana.omically lie is fruit eating
animal Il is iii amusing and syniii-
cant fact that the only typical omnivo-
rous animal is the pig Man is trying
hard to bc u pig. says Professor Leo
Weincr of Harvard in Home and Gar.
den
The carnivorous animals all have
short intrstincs. adapted only to the
digestion of meat They have only one
stomach and could not digest grass us
the COW does Their teeth are all long
AMI sharp. SO that they can tear meat.
but they have no flat topped teeth to
grind vegetable foods rs man has
1t has hcrn said that the so called
canine teeth of man are lilo those Of
the carnivorous animal. and that this is
an indication that man is IN omnivo-
Va.
are not canine teeth. strictly speaking
To be sure. they are somewhat pointed.
but they are flat also-tat and pointed.
and not round and pointed. like those
of the carniyorous animals
The grass eating animals have several
stomachs-from two to tive-and long
intcstines. especially adapted to the di-
gestion of grass They have also flat
topped teeth for grinding
The fruit eating animals are tho only
ones that resemble man. They have
only one stomach and ~ medium length
alilncntary canal. half way between
that Of the carnivorous and tho grass
eating classes The nearest animals to
man arc the monkey and tho ape They
are fruit eaters
has the horizontal movement of tho
lower jaw i'll eating as man has This
is proof positive that man is not IL meat
eater. according to the design of ma.
tnIe These arguments OH tho physical
side of the question prove primarily
that man is not physically adapted to
the eating Of meat
From an economic standpoint it can
easily be seen that man must sooner or
later become vegetarian. This is
merely question of time and II matter
OF room. The increase of civilization
and OF population gradually must do
away with cattle raising because of tho
absolute demand for land for cultiva-
ton. In time the demand for room will
kill the industry entirely
When we eat meat, we arc eating
the product Of the earth at second
hand. The vegetation has been eaten
by the animal. and Il large part Of it
converted into bone and tendon and
wasted. and we eat only what is left
and made into flesh
To reduce the economic problem to
figures. one acre of land which would
furnish enough flesh to support one
man would furnish enough grain to
support ten men Thus. sou see when
the increased population causes an in
creased demand for food and for land
on which to raise foods. it will become
necessary TO raise that which is the
most economic-in other words that
which will produce the most per acre
The hySienic argument you can OBJ
tain frcm any reputable physician. who
will tell you that meat eating is heating
10 the blood. that it is especially IL stim-
ulant rather than II food ana that there
Is great danger of the transmission Of
various serious diseases from animal TO
man
Meat eating in the ideal stage is bad
enough. Ii the animals that we eat were
III nll the health with which nature cn-
dows them. roaming wild and free over
the open fields. with plenty Of exercise.
and permitted to choose Of their own
free will from the best of the various
vegetable growths for their food, that
would be one thing But as civilian
ton has advanced cattle are raised for
the sole purpose of slaughter They get
little or no exercise.
Any veterinary surgeon will tell you
that animals kept without exercise will
contract and propagate various diseases
which are practically unknown to them
in their wild state They are artificial
~ fattened, and this kind Of fat is not
the SORT ce material which we should
put into our bodies
But it is the appalling character Of
the disease in meat which frightens us.
Tuberculosis. one Of the most common
and fatal Of diseases among cattle.
causes great destruction of human life
by consumption. a spread of lcprosy in
Norway. Hawaii and the other fish eat
ing countries is traced directly by scien-
lists to the eating Of fish In this case,
to be sure. it is thought that the eating
Of the fish raw instead of cooked is
what brings On lcprosy but the simple
fact that the germs are there at all is
sufficient
Strength.