p. 16 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 11. (3/17/1909)

Earlier text: Mr. Taft’s Relation to Catholicism

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Meat-Eating and Disease

By D. H. Kress

By D. H. Kress, M.D., Medical Superintendent of Washington (D.C.) Sanitarium

Considerable has been said within recent years of the need of breathing pure air. Much has been accomplished in the prevention, and successful treatment, of diseases, which were considered almost incurable, by merely supplying a liberal amount of pure air day and night. Why is pure air so essential?—Because it contains that very essential element, oxygen. But impure air may not be deficient in oxygen and yet be injurious. The chief objection to the inhalation of impure air is the fact that the oxygen has associated with it poisonous products.

Meat is valued as a food because it contains an essential food element—proteid. If this was all it contained, no serious objection could be raised against its use. But the proteid in meat has associated with it impurities.

In vitiated air we have a mixture of oxygen and eliminated body wastes. In meat we have a mixture of proteid and uneliminated body wastes.

The inhalation of vitiated air, or the ingestion of vitiated food, are both injurious, for both tend to vitiate the blood and lower the vitality of the tissues, making a person more subject to take on disease. The liability to take germ diseases is greatly increased by meat-eating, and those who use meat freely are more apt to die of such diseases when stricken down with them.

As in breathing, the aim should be to get the oxygen unassociated with impurities, so in eating the aim should be to get the proteids unassociated with impurities.

Meat and meat extracts are sometimes recommended for the sick. It would be just as rational to recommend to the sick vitiated air to breathe, as it would be to recommend these animal wastes to eat.

Even meat from a healthy animal is impure, because the healthy animal always has circulating in its tissues waste products, which are on their way to the kidneys, lungs, and skin for elimination. When the animal is killed these wastes on their way to the organs of elimination are retained in the tissues. It is estimated that one pound of meat contains about fourteen grains of uric acid.

Dr. H. W. Wiley says: “There is no nourishment in broth or in the so-called extracts of meat. Every one of the so-called invalid foods made from meats is a fake of the worst kind. Extract of beef is absolutely without value as food. A dog fed on beef extract for eleven days died of starvation. He was given all he would eat. The makers of the best known extracts do not claim it to be a food. They say it is a stimulant, not a food.” The stimulating properties found in meat are the poisonous wastes it contains. These, when introduced into the system cause fever or produce what is known as stimulation. They render the blood and tissues impure, lower vitality and thus predispose to various diseases.

Aside from the fact that flesh foods introduce impurities into the system, germ diseases are frequently directly communicated to man through the consumption of the flesh of diseased animals.

Leprosy is said by one of the best authorities to be due to the use of diseased fish. Flesh-eating is, no doubt, one of the causes of the prevalence of tuberculosis, a disease which is responsible for 180,000 deaths annually in the United States alone. It is also the chief cause of cancer and its rapid increase in modern times.

Infection in Tuberculosis.

While impure air and impure food lower the vital resistance of the tissues of the body, infection, it is now held, takes place chiefly through the alimentary canal by the use of foods or drinks which contain the germs of tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a common disease among cattle. Many of the animals slaughtered give visible evidence of having the disease. Diseased lungs and livers are found to be the rule and not the exception in slaughterhouses, whenever a critical examination is made of the internal organs.

So common is disease among these creatures that a member of the City Board of Health in Chicago said, that if all the diseased meat were rejected “the price of beef would be a dollar a pound.”

A chief inspector of meat said, “If all the poor meat were condemned, half the population would have to go without any at all.” Butchers usually cut out the manifestly diseased portion, the remainder of the carcass is by him considered healthy and is sold. At the Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, 1895, it was reported that of the numerous experiments that had been made “the apparently healthy flesh of tuberculous cattle (not the manifestly diseased organs) had been swallowed by various animals, with the effect that the disease had in many cases, fatally followed the injection of such infected ‘material.’” No part of an animal that has diseased lungs or liver, is fit as food for human consumption.

It is estimated that fully one fourth of the cattle are afflicted with this disease alone. Many of the creatures which have the disease are well nourished and give no visible evidence of being diseased. It is not until the disease is well advanced that emaciation and other noticeable symptoms appear.

Burton R. Rogers, D.V.M., in the address published in the Bulletin of Iowa Institutions for October, 1904, says hogs are extremely infected by tubercular disease. He said: “In four years’ work as inspector of meats I have seen no less than ten thousand such animals, to say nothing of the like proportion which two hundred other federal inspectors have seen.” He further said, “The high-bred, high-priced, pedigreed animals, those in prime fat and apparently healthy in condition, are often as thoroly saturated with disease as the scrub.” “Among 750 hogs which were discovered to be tuberculous after being slaughtered we were not able to discover on examination before slaughter of a single hog that we could say positively was tuberculous and we were not able even to suspect more than fifty.”

Other Diseases.

The deadly trichina is commonly found in pigs and gains access to human beings by the use of measly pork. In New Zealand, where I saw the finest cattle I have ever seen anywhere, cancer among cattle is very common. It did not surprise me to learn later that cancer in man was also very common.

Fat is no indication of health, either in man or in the animal, it is rather an indication of disease. Fat subjects usually fall a prey to this disease.

I am convinced that the free use of meat is responsible to a great extent for the prevalence of tuberculosis, cancer, scrofula, tumors, and other like affections. I am also convinced that the suffering and mortality from meat-eating is not discerned at present as it will be in the future.

It has been affirmed by some of the best authorities that appendicitis, another modern disease, is practically confined to meat-eating countries and to meat-eaters in those countries.

Is Meat Needed?

Why eat meat? There certainly can be no excuse to eat flesh of animals so long as it is possible to get the food elements to supply the needs of the body from safer sources. In the absence or scarcity of better foods man may be justified in running the risk; but no man, it seems to me, can afford to run these risks in a land where fruits, cereals, legumes, vegetables, etc., are so abundantly provided as they are in America.

In these simple products of the earth no food-element is lacking that the human body needs. The animal derives the elements out of which it builds strong bones, muscles, and from which it derives heat and energy, from the vegetable kingdom, why should not man do likewise? Why should he be content to take his food at second hand, and thus fill his body with impurities and run the chances of introducing germs of disease?

At the beginning man was placed in a garden and surrounded with trees pleasant to the sight and good for food. “Of every

tree,” the Creator said, “thou mayest freely eat.” Gen. 2:8, 9, 16. “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” Gen. 1:29.

This was the food originally given to man. Had man never departed from this heaven-appointed bill of fare, suffering would be unknown. Satan knew he could destroy God’s handiwork best by gaining control of his appetite. He knew that in order to demoralize the members of the human family he must change their food and their drink.

This he has been successful in doing, and as a result, disease prevails. But men and women need no longer be ignorant of his devices. Egypt’s flesh-pots should be forsaken for the simple food given to man at the Creation. Men and women will discover that in order to have health, this must be done.

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whose portrait appears on our first page, was inaugurated as the 27th President of the United States, the fourth inst. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1857; graduated at the high school in that city 1874; received his degree of B.A. in Yale 1878, second in a class of 121; received his degree of LL.B. at the Cincinnati College of Law in 1880; LL.D., in the University of Pennsylvania 1902, and of Yale 1903. He was married to Helen Herron, of Cincinnati, 1886. In 1880 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, became judge of the superior court of Ohio in 1887; solicitor-general of the United States in 1890; served as United States circuit judge in 1892-1900; 1896 professor and dean in law department of the University of Cincinnati. These positions he resigned and became President of the United States Philippine Commission on March 16, 1900, in which position he served till 1904; was appointed first civic governor of the Philippine Islands 1901; United States Secretary of War in 1903, taking office on Feb. 1, 1904. He was sent by President Roosevelt to Rome in 1902 to confer with Pope Leo XIII concerning the purchase of agricultural lands of religious orders in the Philippines. He was made President of the American National Red Cross Society in 1905. He is taking office under auspicious circumstances, with the hearty enthusiasm of the Republican party, and a decided friendliness on the part of Democrats. The testing is yet to come. For his success all Christians will truly pray.

“Lead, Kindly Light.”—

A thankless task, it seems to us, is a series of editorials in the Sunday School Times on some of the phrases in Newman’s hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light.” We can not help believing that the spirit of a writer must enter into his production. When John Newman wrote the hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light,” he had come to that place in his own experience in which he could not depend upon his personal faith in God; he wanted some one to lead him. He did not find that in the English church, divided as it was into high and low and broad churchism; he could find it nowhere else but in Romanism, and he seemed to have joined the Roman Catholic Church in order to find some place where he could shelve personal responsibility and rest it all upon the body to which he belonged. We can not see how a Bible paper like the Sunday School Times could feel that it was a “kindly light” which was leading Newman from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism; from a personal trust and a personal Saviour to the trust in the church. It is to our own minds abhorrent to hear it sung by those whom God is leading. There are some choice phrases in it, and the tune to which it is set is to some very beautiful. We opine that the tune itself leads many astray who sing the tune without thinking of the words. The “kindly light” of Newman led him from darkness to greater darkness. It is one of the hymns which the Paulist Fathers and others use to convert Protestants to Roman Catholicism. We wish that there was a strong, vigorous faith in Protestantism which would refuse to sing such utterly unprotestant, unbiblical hymns.

Taft’s Inauguration Amid a Blizzard

Inauguration Day in Washington and the East was met by a howling blizzard which tied up trains, blew down telegraph and telephone wires, and paralyzed business generally. The ceremonies of the day were held inside the Senate Chambers. All passed off nicely and in due order. The great ball at night, at which it is said that 40,000 persons were present a part of the time, was a blaze of glory, and the city was resplendent for hours with fire works, in which battle-ships in the air were striking features. Everything about the inauguration told how far the nation has drifted from the democratic simplicity of the early days of the republic. Mr. Taft stated in his address that the Roosevelt policies would be carried out, and declared for a big navy.

Solar Electric Generator Discovery

A remarkable discovery is reported from Boston which we hope may be true, and that is that a gentleman by the name of Mr. Geo. S. Cove, of Somerville, a suburb of the Eastern city, has solved the problem of storing up the sun’s rays and converting them into electrical energy. It is said that he has a one-hundred-dollar machine which supplies his house with incandescent electricity and furnishes power otherwise. His invention will be known as the solar electric generator. He discovered the secret by accident. He has also demonstrated the power to run a motor by wireless energy so that he has transmitted power from his home in Roxbury to a motor in Cambridge, six miles away.

Extradition of Russian Political Prisoners

More or less is being said in the papers of the country regarding the extradition of two Russians, Rudowitz and Pouren. Both of these, it is said, have left Russia on account of purely political offenses; offenses which in Russia condemn them to sentence of death. It has generally been contrary in the United States to deliver up political prisoners to foreign powers, only for what would be called actual crimes against individuals. A strong appeal is being made by the defense of these men for the repeal or change of the treaty between Russia and America. It certainly is cruel to deliver men for political offenses to the Russian Government, especially when Russia’s cruelty toward offenders of this kind is so well known. Deeds which would be passed over in silence or with little or no punishment at all in most countries, are considered in Russia capital crimes, or are punished with deportation to the wilds of Siberia.

The Endless Chain Prayer Letter

By Editor

An endless chain prayer letter has been sent to us which asks every person who receives it to multiply it and send it to nine others, each one of the nine to do the same, and so on, and so on, with the statement that it was sent by Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, and the promise that one who would push it forward according to design, would be delivered from any great calamity, etc. We have before noted this. We simply wish to say, (1) Bishop Lawrence, in a letter to us, which we have before published, denies having done anything of the sort at all; and (2) It is a piece of the most arrant superstition. We hope that our readers will throw all such communications into the waste-basket, being assured that the curse causeless shall not come. True prayer to God is not brought about by any such method.

What Is It For?

Settle first of all, dear reader, if you are a professor of religion, what your religion is for. For what purpose do you hold it? Is it a sort of soothing syrup to ease a conscience which convicts you of sin? Do you profess it in order to be fashionable, or “respectable,” or to enlarge your circle of acquaintance, or to win trade? Is it a matter of commercialism? Is it like your best suit, which you put on once a week or occasionally? If your religion is any or all of these, it will profit nothing. It may make a temporal gain of professed godliness, but it will profit nothing in the most important of all things—character building. If your religion does not include that, it is not the religion of Christ Jesus. If it does not enter into every day and hour of time, into every transaction of business, into every motive which actuates you, into your choice of companionship in books and people, into your work or calling, into your home and secret life, you have not a religion which is of any worth. The religion of Jesus Christ takes in the whole man—spiritually, mentally, morally, and physically. Set aside as unworthy of consideration any religion which falls short of this. God wants to make men.

The Young People’s Magazine

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Loma Linda Sanitarium

We have received a beautifully illustrated prospectus of the Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma Linda, Cal. Loma Linda is not the name of a city, or a village, but of a sanitarium. The location of the institution is indeed charming, and all the facilities there used are such as are in harmony with the natural surroundings. The most approved methods for the treatment of the sick are in vogue. For any who may be interested, address Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma Linda, Cal.

Catholics and the Presidential Cabinet

The “Western Watchman” remarks: “Mr. Taft is taking his time selecting his cabinet. Wonder if he will find a place for a Catholic? We are not very much interested one way or the other; but where Catholics form one third of the Christians of the country, it is a strange freak of chance that they should miss out in seven trials, and do it once every four years.” The Watchman must be forgetful. Surely they have been remembered in Mr. Roosevelt’s cabinet.

Cabinet Members Missing from Who’s Who

It ought not to be discouraging to the would-be famous people in America if their names do not appear in “Who’s Who in America.” Three whom Mr. Taft has thought of sufficient caliber to grace his cabinet have no place in that large, red volume.

Carroll D. Wright Dies

Hon. Carroll D. Wright, who has done excellent work in connection with the government in the matter of statistics, died February 20 in his 69th year. While he was prominent in educational circles, he was especially noted as a statistician.

HON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
The Twenty-seventh President of the United States. (See note on last page.) — HON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT The Twenty-seventh President of the United States. (See note on last page.)