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ficially fattened, carcasses of unhealthy bullocks and 

 cows. Poultrj' loaded with fat by a process initiated 

 from the phenomena of disease, are appreciated by the 

 palate. It does not, however, follow that these things 

 ' are really good for food.' We believe that those who 

 would be healthy should use healthy nutriments. It is 

 impossible to provide this luxury in sufficient quantities. 

 Let the public pursue a sensible course, and resort to 

 articles of diet which supply an equally serviceable 

 material, less costly, and more under control. "We have 

 no sympathy with the . vegetarian craze, but unless 

 Animal food can be furnished at a fair price, and in 

 healthy condition, it will soon become necessary to 

 prefer vegetable diet. The slaughterers of cattle and 

 those who prepare their flesh for food are able to recog- 

 nise many hideous diseases, and have terms of their own 

 with which to designate them. For example, they know 

 tuberculous disease when they see it, and yet they are 

 content to remove the sickening mass and send the 

 residue for human consumption, as though the whole 

 animal were not poisoned." 



