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24 diet, consisting mainly of fruits and nuts. To follow a modern cook-book were as disastrous to purse and health—as physically and morally impossible—as to follow the fashion magazines! Who that has served the numerous courses in which dead animals predominate, removed the horrid "remains," washed the greasy "dishes, pots and kettles," etc., but has wondered, at least, if there might not be some way of ministering to the food-wants of the body, less tedious, odious, revolting and filthy?

"Did you ever think how much the American people work for the animal world? To raise hogs, cattle, calves, mutton, poultry etc., constitutes half of a farmer's labor. Think also of the amount of consumption in grain and vegetables to feed these. Were these farmers vegetarians they could they now expend. Then again, when we contemplate the number of butchers and traffickers in flesh, the scene becomes truly appalling. Were all these laborers to go into the fields, and there cultivate vegetables and fruits, the price of living in the great cities would be reduced miore than one-half. Then our people would begin to be clean and healthy. No smallpox would molest them. The desire for intoxicating drinks would pass away."

"Whether cattle are, in civilized countries, a blessing or a curse, we will not now argue. We have our private opinion that the whole tribe of domestic animals, in all places where the earth's surface will admit of general cultivation, are, with the single exception of a few of the working creatures, not only a nuisance to the human race, but a source of national poverty, and a cause of epidemics, diseases, and frequent pestilences. But so long as the majority of our people can find immediate gain and present pleasure in the rearing of cattle and swine, and in the use of, and traffic in, beef, pork, butter, cheese, etc., we can hardly expect that all the lessons of all the pestilences that have ever desolated the earth, nor all the lectures on physiology and the laws of life that we can write, will induce the masses so to revolutionize their habits of living as to exchange the cattle-raising and hog-breeding business to the more ennobling, and healthful and permanently profitable cultivation of grain,