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Episode 2 - More Nutriment · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section two. More nutriment first, because vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal
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  amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many
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  people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless
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  they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it
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  is difficult to awaken the average man from it. It must be clearly understood
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  that this is not a question of habit or of sentiment, or of prejudice.
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  It is simply a question of plain fact. And as to the facts,
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  there is not, and there never has been, the slightest question.
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  There are four elements necessary in food, all of them essential to the repair
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  and the upbuilding of the body. A proteins or nitrogenous foods BEA, carbohydrates,
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  sea, fats, DA salts. This is the classification usually accepted among
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  physiologists, although some recent investigations are tending to modify it to a certain extent.
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  Now there is no question that all of these elements exist to a greater
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  extent in vegetables than they do in dead flesh. For instance, milk,
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  cream, cheese, nuts, peas, and beans contain a large percentage of
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  proteins or nitrogenous matter. Wheat, oats, rice and other grains, fruits,
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  and most of the vegetables except perhaps peas, beans and lentils, consists
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  mainly of carbohydrates, that is, of starches and sugars. The fats are
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  found and nearly all of the protein foods, and can also be taken in
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  the form of butter or of oils. The salts are found practically in all
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  foods to a greater or less extent. They are of the utmost importance in
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  the maintenance of the body tissues, and what is called saline starvation is the
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  cause of many diseases. It is sometimes claimed that flesh meat contains some of
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  the things to a larger degree than vegetables, and some tables are drawn up
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  in such a way as to suggest this. But once more, this is
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  a question of facts and must be faced. From that point of view,
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  the only sources of energy and dead flesh are the protein matter contained therein and
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  the fat, And as the fat in it certainly has no more value than
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  other fat, the only point to be considered is the proteins. Now,
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  it must be remembered that proteins have only one origin. They are organized in
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  plants and nowhere else. Nuts, peas, beans, and lentils are far
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  richer than any kind of flesh in these elements, and they have this enormous
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  advantage that the proteins are pure and therefore contain all the energy originally stored up
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  in them during their organization. In the animal body, these proteins, which
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  the animal has absorbed from the vegetable kingdom during its life, are constantly passing
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  down to disorganization, during which descent the energy originally stored in them is released.
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  Consequently, what has been used already by one animal cannot be utilized by
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  another. The proteins are estimated in some of these tables by the amount of
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  nitrogen contain therein, But in flesh meat there are many products of tissue change,
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  such as urea, uric acid, and creatine, all of which contain
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  nitrogen and are therefore estimated as proteins, though they have no food value whatsoever.
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  Nor is this all the evil. For this tissue change is necessarily accompanied
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  by the formation of various poisons, which are always to be found in flesh
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  of any kind, and in many cases the virulence of these poisons is very
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  great. So you will observe that if you gain any nourishment from the eating
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  of dead flesh, you obtain it because during its life the animal consume vegetable
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  matter. You get less of this nourishment than you ought to have, because
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  the animal has already used half of it, and you have along with it
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  various undesirable substances, and even some active poisons, which are of course distinctly
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  deleterious. I know that there are many doctors who will prescribe the lowsome flesh
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  diet in order to strengthen people, and that they will often meet with a
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  certain amount of success, though even on this point they are by no means
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  agreed. For doctor Milner Fothergill writes, all the bloodshed caused by the warlike
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  disposition of Napoleon is as nothing compared to the loss of life among the myriads
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  of persons who have sunk into their graves through a displaced confidence in the supposed
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  value of beef tea. At any rate, the strengthening results can be obtained
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  more easily from the vegetable kingdom, when the science of diet is properly understood,
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  and they can be obtained without the horrible pollution, and without all the
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  undesirable concomitants of the other system. Let me show you that I am not,
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  in all this making any unfounded assertations. Let me quote to you the
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  opinions of physicians, of men whose names are well known in the medical world,
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  so you may see that I have abundant authority for all that I have
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  said. We find Sir Henry Thompson f r c S. Saying it is
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  a vulgar error to regard meat in any form as necessary to life. All
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  that is necessary to the human body can be supplied by the vegetable kingdom.
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  The vegetarian can extract from his food all the principles necessary for the growth and
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  support of the body, as well as for the production of heat and force.
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  It must be admitted as a fact beyond all question, that some persons
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  are stronger and more healthy who live on that food. I know how much
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  of the prevailing meat diet is not merely a wasteful extravagance, but a source
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  of serious evil to the consumer. There is a definite statement by a well
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  known medical man. Then we may turn to the words of a fellow of
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  the Royal Society. Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson m D. He says it must
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  be honestly admitted that weight by weight, vegetable substance, when carefully selected,
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  possesses the most striking advantages over animal food in nutritious value. I should like
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  to see a vegetarian and fruit living plan put into general use, and I
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  believe it will be. The well known physician, doctor William S. Playfair
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  c B has said quite clearly animal diet is not essential to man, and
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  we find doctor F. J. Sikes B s C, the medicat official
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  for Saint Pancras, writing, chemistry is not antagonistic to vegetarianism any more than
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  biology is. Flesh food is certainly not necessary to supply the nitrogenous products required
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  for the repair of tissues. Therefore, a well selected diet from the vegetable
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  kingdom is perfectly right from the chemical point of view. For the nutrition of
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  men, Doctor Francis Thatcher f R C. S FCS remarks, I have
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  no belief that a man is better physically or mentally for taking flesh food.
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  Doctor Alexander Haig f P c P, the leading physician of one of the
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  great London hospitals, has written that it is easily possible to sustain life on
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  the products of the vegetable kingdom needs no demonstration for physiologists, even if the
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  majority of the human race were not constantly engaged in demonstrating it. And my
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  researches show not only that it is possible, but that it is infinitely preferable
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  in every way and produces superior powers both of mind and body. Doctor M.
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  S. Coup Rays in the American Practitioner and News of July nineteen o
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  two concluded a scientific article as follows. Let me state first that the flesh
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  of warm blooded animals is not essential as a diet for the purpose of maintaining
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  the human body in perfect health. He goes on to make some further remarks,
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  which we shall quote under our next head. The Dean of the Faculty
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  of Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia said, it is a well known fact that
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  cereals, as articles of daily food, hold a high place in the human
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  economy. They contain constituents amply sufficient to sustain life in its highest form.
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  If the value of cereal food products were better known, it would be a
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  good thing for the race. Nations live and thrive upon them alone, and
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  it has been fully demonstrated that me is not a necessity. There you have
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  a number of plain statements, and all of them are taken from the writings
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  of well known men who have made a considerable study of the chemistry of foods.
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  It is impossible to deny that a man can exist without this horrible flesh
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  diet, and furthermore, that there is more nutriment and an equal amount of
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  vegetable than of dead flesh. I could give you many other quotations, but
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  those above mentioned are sufficient, and they are fair samples of the rest.
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  End of Section two