The Manifesto Volume 18-19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... the body, as well as for the production of heat and force."--Food and Feeding, p. 11. To the same question Liebig answers more minutely: "Grain and other nutritious vegetables yield us, not only in starch, sugar, and gum, the carbon which protects our organs from the action of oxygen, and produces in the organism the heat which is essential to life, but also in the form of vegetable fibrine, albumen, and caseine, the elements of our blood from which the other parts of our body are developed. Vegetable fibrine and animal fibrine, vegetable albumen and animal albumen, hardly differ, even in form; and when they are present the graminivorous animal obtains in its food the very same prineiples, on the presence of which the nutrition of the carnivora entirely depends." In addition to the arguments set forth by the preceding writers, we must remember that, under the most favorable circumstances the flesh of animals can never be free from impurities. Tho process of waste and repair is constantly going on in the living body, and hence there is always present in the sys tem a certain amount of broken-down cell tissue, which is on its way to the excretory outlets of the system. If this process is suddenly stopped by killing the animal, this effete matter, together with the impure venous blood which is in the capillaries (a large proportion) remains in the flesh, rendering it impure and unhealthy. If in addition, the animals are actually diseased, as good authorities say 80 per cent, are, caused by immature breeding and putting them in an unnatural condition by fattening and shipping in crowded freight ears, flesh-eating becomes actually dangerous. It is now well known that not only the different parasitic diseases may be communicated to man, but pleuro...