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Section seven six, because the vegetable diet is in every way cheaper as well
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as better than flesh. In the encyclical just mention, mister Booth gives us
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one of his reasons for advocating it that a vegetarian diet of wheat, oats,
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maize, and other grains lentils, peas, beans, nuts, and
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similar food is more than ten times as economical as a flesh diet. Meat
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contains half its weight in water, which has to be paid for as though
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it were meat. A vegetable diet, even if we allow cheese, butter
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and milk, will cost only about a quarter as much as a mixed diet
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of flesh and vegetables. Tens of thousands of our poor people, who have
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now the greatest difficulty to make ends meat after buying flesh food, would buy
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the substitution of fruit and vegetables and other economical foods be able to get a
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long in comfort. There is also an economic side of this question which must
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not be ignored. Note how many more men could be supported by a certain
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number of acres of land which were devoted to the growing of wheat than by
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the same amount of land which was laid out in pasture. Think too,
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for how many more men healthily work upon the land would be found in the
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former case than in the latter. And I think you will begin to see
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that there is a great deal to be said from this point of view.
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Also end of Section seven.