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Those who use animal food are more liable to disease, and their diseases are more severe, and tend more to putridity, than is the case with vegetarians.

"Animal food disposes the body to inflamatory, putrid and scorbutic diseases, and the character to violence and coarseness."

"Animal food, in general, digests sooner than most kinds of vegetables; and not being so much in accordance with man's nature, constitution and moral character, it is very liable to generate disease, inflammation, or fever, even when it is not taken to excess."

"The objections, then, against meat-eating are three-fold—intellectual, moral and physical. Its tendency is to check intellectual activity, to depreciate moral sentiment, and to derange the fluids of the body."

"A disregard of the intention of nature in the use of animal food is the chief cause of disease and early decay, which has reduced the living age of man to the present standard, and filled this brief span with pain and misery."

"Nothing is more certain than that animal food is inimical to health. This is evident from its stimulating qualities—producing, as it were, a temporary fever after every meal; and not only so, but from its corruptible qualities it gives rise to many fatal diseases. But that which ought to convince every one of the salubrity of a of a diet consisting of vegetables (that is, plants—including fruits, nuts, grains, roots, etc.) is the consideration of the dreadful effects of totally abstaining from it, unless it be for a very short time."

"A vegetable-eating person is seldom sick on account of his diet. Flesh-eaters are disposed to all kinds of maladies, take contagious diseases and succumb to epidemics readily. The reason is, they take into their systems the —which are always present in the economy, parsing to the excretory organs—and hence the tissues of their own body