No, Doctor, if you wished a man to have a strong right arm you would not prescribe that all work should be made easy for that arm? in fact, that it should be rested all the time, and if exercised at all only passively.
May I ask why Dr. Monteiro eats meat, if he does so?
Is it because his parents did?
Is it because the meat contains nutriment not to be found in the vegetable products?
Is it because the meat is freer from disease germs than vegetable food?
Would he or any other advance if they did everything their parents did?
If Dr. Monteiro advocates the use of meat, by what mode of reasoning is he going to decide that man should eat hog-meat and not man-meat; or if cow-meat, why not dog-meat; if rabbit, why not cat; if turkey, why not turkey-buzzard?—The Vegetarian Messenger and Review.
What is Vegetarianism.
From "Plain Living and High Thinking."
Speech at the Annual Meeting of the Vegetarian Society, held at Manchester, October 14, 1885.
Continued from page 184.
"But what have you poore sheepe misdone, a cattell meek and meeld,
Created for to mainteine man, whose fulsome dugs do yeeld
