The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-08


their relishing the viands by initiating
Oliver Twist in requests for more.
There were jests about the absence of
bones. Everything in sight was food
and good to the taste.
H c. Brown, presiding, made an
nouncement that at the next meeting
A. F. Judd would deliver an address
on "Snares and Fascinatious of the
Legal Profession" It would be ut the
regular place, Z. NJ C. A. hall. RE
then introduced the speaker of the
evening.
Mr. Behrens took high ground 1T the
outset in presenting the claims of
vegetarian diet. He held 1t was Gods
original plan that man should sustain
his life by the fruits of the ground. 1t
was not originally designed that he
should kill and eat'' and make his
throat an open sepulcher." Only aft
er the flood, according to the scripturai
record, did God tolerate the use of
flesh as food. For the six hundred
years of the antediluvian period, when
man lived upon vegetarian diet, the
average life of human beings was more
than nine hundred years. In the three
centuries following the deluge, with
flesh permitted as food, mans average
age fell off to three hundred and odd
years.
The lecturer cited the rigid Mosaic
rules to control the consumption or
flesh, fowl and fish, in contrast 10 the
modern regimen of meat-eating peo-
pie, showing what a wide departure
had been made from the wholesome
restrictions of the Hebrew law-giver.
Under the Hebraic code meat was to
be eaten within three days of slaugh-
tering. On the third day it was ac-
counted IAN abomination. Today meat
has to be ''ripened' for the palate, it
is a subject of complaint when too
fresh" Moses forbade the eating of
the blood and the fat, substances that
. constitute about the only flavor or
meat to the Iatter-day epicure. Moth
ing strangled was permitted in that
code, so that even fish had to be bled
when caught. The fish strangles out
of water, as the land animal does in
water. BY the Mosaic rule there is no
fish sold in the markets now which is
fit TO eat Then there was a list OF
animals that were 'cIean" and list
of those ''uncIean,'' which moderns dis
| regarded in their enormous consump-
ton of swine's flesh. The oyster was
among the anciently prohibited Great
ures for food. Ii any of his hearers
| knew the composition of the Baltimore
| oyster and the material upon which 1t
was fed, they would scarcely relish
| their next plate of oysters.
| Mr.. Behrens spoke of the increasing
| prevalence of diseases among animals
| entering into the meat supply of the
world He instanced an official report
to the effect that 43 per cent of the
| cattle upon the Montana ranges were
| affected with tuberculosis. Taking UP
| the uncleanliness of the shambles, he
| read a Board of Health committee's
| report on the condition of the slaugh-
ter houses in Kalamazoo, Michigan
which revealed a state of affairs both
disgusting and deplorable. The lee
turer also quoted scientifically prepared
| tables of comparative values of animal
food and of articles of vegetable die
tary. They showed decided advantage
in point of elements of energy for tht
I vegetarian regimen. other quotations
were from the Scientific American anG
from DR.. ]. H. Kellogg's writings
/ Theoretically at least, Mr.. Behren:
| made out a strong case. AS a supple
| ment and extension of his lecture h
/ presented each. guest of the evening