Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-04
MAN A VEGETARIAN.
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 The earnivoreus animals au hsys abort inttstines adopted oHly to ths digestion of meat They have oniy our stomach ah3 could not 6lEvst EFass af ths COW does Thsir tSetA srs ell loug and sharp. 60 that they can tear neat but thsy have no Aut5oPpee tecsk le grind vegetable foods ss msu has.
 It has been said that the fe-caIe6 canine" testh cf man are ake thcss of Ihe earnlvorous animal. and thaI this is an indication that man is au omzivorsus animal This ls not correct These are not canine teeth. strictly speaking To bs sure, they are somc- whnt pointed. bat they are hat also- flat and pointed. and nol round and pointed. like these of the csruiyorons animals.
 The grass-sAtiug animals have Ers. sral stomAchs-from tao 10 fvc-ara long intestines especially adapted co the digestion of graEs. They have also aat-topPed teeth for grinding.
 The fruii-eatipg animals are the oniy ones that resemble maa. Thfy have only one stomach. and medium isngth Aiimentsry canal. half way bstween hat Of the eafaivorous and she grass sAting elaSseE The Isarest animals to man are the monkey and ihe ape They are fruit-eaters
 No meat-eating animal iB tbe world has the horizontal movement of tbt lower jAw iH eating as man has. This ts proof positive that msu is uo' a meal. eater. according to the design of ua- ture. These arguments on ths pbysi cal sids of the question prove primarily that man Is not physically adapted e, the eating Of meat
 From an ecoLomie stnntpoiut it car easily be seen that man must sooner ui Ater become vegetarian This is merely question Of time and a matter If room. The increase of civilization and of population gradually must dc away with esttIe-raising because of ths absolute demand for land for caliiss. tiOn. In time, the demand for room wiil xill the industry entirely.
 When we eat meat we are eating the product of the earth st second hand The vegetation has been eaten by the animal. and a large part of iI convert ed into bone and tendon and wasted and we est only what is left and made nto flesh.
 To red uee the economic problem Co figures: One acre of land a hich would furnish enough flesh to support one man would furnish enough grain tc support ten men. Thus you see when he increased population causes an 10. creased demand for food and for land ou which to raise foods. it will become necessary to raise that which is the most economic-in other words. that which win produce the most per acre.
 The hygienic argument you can ob- ain from any reputable physician. Whc will tell you that meat eating is heating 10 the blood, that i; Is especially stimulsnt rather than a food, and that there is great danger Of the transmits sion of various serious diseases from animal 10 man.
 Meat eating in the ideal stage is bad enough. If the animals that we eat were in all the health with which DC. ture endows them. roaming wild and Tree over the open fields, with plenty of exercise. and permitted to choose ] of their own free will from the best l of the various vegetable growths for l their food, that would be one thing But as civilization has advanced cattle ! gre raised for the sole purpose of slsugh l ter. They get little or DO exercise.
 Any veterinary surgeon will tell you . that animals kept without exercise will l contract and propagate various diseases {. which are practically unknown to them ] in their wild state. They are artificial l y fattened, and this kind Of fat Is not 1 the sort of material which We should ! put into our bodies.
 But it is the appalling character Of ! the disease in meat V whicA frightens us. . Tuberculosis, one of tbe most common 1 and fatal of diseases among cattle. l causes great destruction Of human life ! by consumption. 4 recent alarming ! spread of leprosy in Norway, Hawaii /. and the other fsh-es1ing countries is traced directly by scientists to the eat ing of fish. In this case, 10 be sure, | 1t is thought that the eating of the fish raw, instead of cooked, is what . brings on leprosy, but the simple facs ! that the germs are there at all is sufi- I cieut.-Baltimore American.