Auto intoxication
Most diseases of the human body are caused by auto intoxication or self poisoning. The flesh of animals increases the burden of the organs of elimination and overloads the system with animal waste matter and poisons. Chemical analysis has proved that uric acid and other uremic poisons contained in the animal body are almost identical to caffeine, thein, and nicotine, the poisonous stimulating principles of coffee, tea and tobacco.
This explains why meat stimulates the animal passion and creates a craving for liquor, tobacco and other stronger stimulants. Excessive uric acid resulting from meat eating also causes diseases such as rheumatism. Bright’s disease, kidney stones, gout and gall stones. Meat proteins cause purification twice as rapidly as do vegetable proteins.
The morbid matter of the dead animal body is foreign and uncongenial to the excretory organs of the man. It is much harder for them to eliminate the waste matter of an animal carcass than that of the human body. Moreover, the formation of ptomaine or corpse poisons begins immediately after the death of the animal and meat and poultry are usually kept in cold storage for many days and even months before they reach to kitchen.
Another powerful influence tends to poison the flesh of slaughtered animals. As is well known emotions of worry fear and anger actually poison blood and tissues. Imagine excitable conditions of animals after many days of travel closely packed in shaking vehicles hungry, thirsty, scared, enroute to the slaughter houses. Many die even before the end of the journey. Others are driven half dead with fear and exhaustion to the slaughter pans, their instinctive fear of death augmented by the sight and odor of the bloody shambles.
Flesh is often a carrier of disease germs. Diseases of many kinds are on the increase in animals, making flesh foods more and more unsafe. People are continually eating flesh that may contain tuberculosis and cancerous germs. Often animals are taken to market and sold for food when they are so diseased that their owners do not wish to keep them any longer. And some of the processes of fattening them to increase their weight and consequential their market value, produce disease. Shut away from light and pure air breathing the atmosphere of filthy stables, perhaps fattening on decaying food, the entire body now becomes contaminated with foul matter.
Benefits of vegetarianism
A vegetarian diet can have many nutritional benefits if it in rich in fruits and vegetables and contains moderate amounts of seeds, nuts, whole grains, and legumes. One of the main benefits proper vegetarian diet is its low caloric content in relation to bulk supplied, which helps maintain ideal weight.
Another benefit of the vegetarian diet is the much lower intake of fat, if dairy products seeds and nuts are eaten sparingly. This accounts for lower serium cholesterol levels found in vegetarians, which considerably reduces the risk of developing heart diseases and breast and colon cancer.
A third nutritional advantage of the vegetarian diet is its high fiber content. Fiber, being indigestible increases the bulk of the faeces, keeps them soft and makes them easy to expel. One study has indicated that lacto-avo vegetarians twice as much and vagans four time as much fiber as non vegetarians. High fiber intake has been associated with decreased risk of diseases of the colon, appendicitis cancer of the colon and rectum, hiatus hernia, piles, and varicose veins.
McCarrison one of the greatest authorities on food, has outlined a perfect diet. According to him “a perfectly constituted diet is one which the principal ingredients are milk, milk products, any whole cereal grain or mixture of cereal grains, green leafy vegetables and fruits. These are the protective foods. They make good the defects of other constituents of the diet, protect the body against infection and disease of various kinds, and their use in sufficient quantity ensures physical efficiency.
Vegetarianism is thus a system based on scientific principles and has proved adequate for the best nutrition free from the poisons and bacteria of diseased animals. It is the best diet for man’s optimum physical, mental and spiritual development.
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