East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-04-20
GaIVdni Pleads
for Vegetaridnism

Never has better work been done IN
Portland than now by the Women of
tie School of Domestic Science who
are cleaning up the city's markets,
says W. H. Galvani in the Sunday
Oregonian. The community certainly
owes them debt of gratitude for
their timely investigation of the but
cher shops and fish and poultry mar
kets, where the mangled remains of
inoffensive animals are sold to crafty
the refined tastes of spiritual man.
They have made a most excellent
beginning, and, judging from what
they have already accomplished, it is
safe to assume that they will carry
ous 4 most interesting program. BY
this, of course, mean that they will
give fun publicity to this matter, so
that people may know the nature of
the stuff they daily consume, and the
actual conditions Under which such
stuff is obtained.
To me this is especially gratifying.
since this excellent work of our rep
resentative women speaks most elo-
quently for the adoption of bloodless
u
to call it so. Between the flesh-pots |
and the plant world there is no mid
, die ground, and each must take his
choice.
And the more this subject is brought
to the attention of thinking people
the greater will be the number of
those who will avail themselves of a
purely vegetarian diet. Such diet
is not only in accord with a just rec
; ognition of the rights of animals, but
is purer, more wholesome, affords
t most excellent variety, and is free
l from the disgusting objections which
form so inseparable a feature of ami
NAL foods.
The world is not at all ready to ac-
cept the ipse dixit of some scientists,
- who find it proper or profitable to
proclaim that we can subsist upon tu-
ii bercular or otherwise diseased animal
matter without any danger to our
(, health.
II 1 am fully aware of the popular err
81 ror which finds support even among
some leading physicians, that a diet
'e made up of vegetables, fruits and
= grains. with or without the addition
Ia of eggs and milk, is insufficient for a
perfect and prolonged maintenance of
If health. Facts are, however, against
r every error, as they always have been
lgl against every error and super
stition, though some refuse to admit
le it.
n Indeed, according to the best auth
III critics on the subject, vegetarian
diet under a sensible management
is not only best adapted to meet all
the requirements, but also represents
advantages which even the champions
10 of a carnivorous system cannot claim
~ for their most favorite morsels. And
by the way, some of the most emf
at nent physicians in this city admitted
all to me within the last few years thu
1s' great advantages of a vegetarian diet
er both in health and in disease. There
fore. in common with any vegetarian
DIV | rejoice at what is just now beini
to done through the efforts of the Schop
OIL lof Domestic Science.
a To me there is an assurance in sue
work that the race will some day re
,er deem itself from the barbarism G
lin the slaughter house, an unmistakabl
IN. prophecy that the future may brn
q a temperance of "a vigorous rae
in of undiseased mankind" as in tn
in days of early nature, the age whic
men called Golden. And thus, instea
. of adhering to the doctrine, "Aris
and slay, and eat" humankind wi
once more. turn to the plant worl,
the original source whence all foo
is supplied us.
In the same time it will thus redeei
itself from the civilized savagery {
feasting upon the flesh and blood {
vctimized, tortured and mangled fe
low creatures, who, as far as a
audible and visible evidence point
me have sprung from the same sourC
nal with the paragon of animals, and {
such must share the same destiny.
eat For almost one-half of my life
asy have subsisted upon a vegetarian die
If and l am firmly convinced of ii
DE great advantage such a diet afford
But above all, rejoice in the reali;
II. alton of the fact that the maintenanC
of my life does not require a dali
sacrifice of the lives of any livin
creature. Would that all othel
might see this matter in the san
light.