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 painful symptoms that sooner or later render the life of the consumer of flesh miserable.

10. As all animals killed for food are liable to disease, which the most rigid inspection of their flesh does not always detect, and as much of the so-called inspection is necessarily superficial and imperfect, there is a constant danger of the flesh of diseased animals being consumed, even where great precaution is believed to be taken.

11. As most flesh buyers trust to their butchers to supply them with "good meat," themselves unable to distinguish what can only be detected by microscopic observation and inspection, the risk of the diseases of animals, such as cancer, tuberculosis, measles, small-pox, cholera, etc., being communicated is very great, butchers not being microscopists and not interested in condemning the flesh they are offering for sale.

12. To live a pure life man must restrict himself to pure food and drink, and this is impossible while he consumes the flesh and blood of animals.

13. Almost all animals just previous to being killed are subjected to the most cruel and heartless treatment, such as traveling in railroad cars for days without food or drink; driving through streets by means of goads or sharpened rods, wrenching of their tails, etc., causing the most excruciating pain, and naturally exciting their most violent passions;