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Episode 6 - Less Animal Passion · Vegetarianism and Occultism

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  Section six less animal passion fifth, because the eating of dead bodies leads to
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  indulgence in drink and increases animal passions in man. Mister H. P.
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  Fowler, who is studied and lectured on dipsomania for forty years, declares that
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  the use of flesh foods, by the excitation that it exercises on the nervous
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  system, prepares the way for habits of intemperance in everything, and the more
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  flesh is consumed, the more serious is the danger of confirmed alcoholism. Many
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  experienced physicians have made similar experiments and wisely act on them in their treatment of
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  dipsomaniacs. The lower part of man's nature is undoubtedly intensified by the habit of
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  feeding upon corpses. Even after eating a full meal of such horrible material,
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  a man still feels unsatisfied, for he is still conscious of a vague,
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  uncomfortable sense of want, and consequently he suffers greatly from nervous strain. This
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  craving is the hunger of the bodily tissues, which cannot be renewed by the
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  poor stuff offered to them as food. To satisfy this vague craving, or
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  rather to appease these restless nerves so that it will no longer be felt.
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  Recourse is often had to stimulants. Sometimes alcoholic beverages are taken. Sometimes an
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  attempt is made to allay these feelings with black coffee, and at other times
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  strong tobacco is used in the endeavor to soothe the irritated, exhausted nerves.
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  Here we have the beginning of intemperance, for in the majority of cases,
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  intemperance began in the attempt to allay with alcoholic stimulants the vague, uncomfortable sense
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  of want which follows the eating of impoverished food, food that does not feed.
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  There is no doubt that drunkenness and all the poverty, wretchedness, disease,
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  and crime associated with it may frequently be traced to errors of feeding.
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  We might follow out this line of thought indefinitely. We might speak of the
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  irritability occasionally culminating an insanity, which is now acknowledged by all authorities to be
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  a frequent result of erroneous feeding. We might mention a hundred familiar symptoms of
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  indigestion and explain that indigestion is always the result of incorrect feeding. Surely,
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  however, enough has been said to indicate the importance and far reaching influence of
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  a pure diet upon the welfare of the individual and of the race. Mister
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  Bramwell Booth, the Chief of the Salvation Army, has issued a Pronunciamento upon
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  the subject of vegetarianism, in which he speaks strongly and decidedly in its favor,
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  giving a list of no less than nineteen good reasons why men should abstain
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  from the eating of flesh. He insists that a vegetarian diet is necessary to
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  purity, to chastity, and to the perfect control of the appetites and passions
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  which are so often the source of great temptation. He remarks that the growth
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  of meat eating among the people is one of the causes of the increase of
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  drunkenness, and that it also favors indolence, sleepiness, want of energy,
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  indigestion, constipation, and other like miseries and degradations. He also states that
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  exema, piles, worms, dysentery, and severe headaches are frequently brought on
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  by flesh diet, and that he believes the great increase in consumption and cancer
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  during the last hundred years to have been caused by the corresponding increase in the
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  use of animal food end section six.