" Experiments involving infliction of pain or death tend.
to blunt and therefore to brutalize children in their human
relations. I do not live up to the doctrine, but I believe
that our physical as well as sympathetic evolution is
moving to the point at which we will be as incapable of
killing animals for food for the body as for food for the
mind."
Rev. E. B. Graham, editor Midland, Chicago, 111. :
" Children should not be allowed to see game shot by
cruel sportsmen, or domestic fowls killed even for food,
and much less should they become familiar with cruelty
in the interests of education."
Nowhere could there have been found a more brilliant
array of talent to emphasize the position taken by the
most radical humanitarians and non-flesh eaters. Verily
they have testified with deeper significance than they
knew, not only for the present generations of youth, but,
practically carried out, for all future generations.
It is a significant fact that half the above quotations
are from residents of Chicago, the greatest animal slaugh-
tering city on this continent. Let us ever remember that
at the World's Fair in 1893, within the walls of the "White
City," we were held up to ridicule and shame by the noble
and grand expounders of "the law and the gospel" from
1230 THE FAT OF THE LAND.
.the Orient, because of our inhumanities toward the animal
world.
Albert Leffiingwell, M. D., in his profound address
• before the World's Humane Congress at Chicago, said :
" I do not disguise from myself the hope that the time
.may come when the substitutes for flesh as food shall be
..so universally procurable, so cheap and abundant that the
human race will find a far higher ideal than is generally
. held to-day, and refuse to sacrifice any life for the gratifi-
cation of appetite alone."
Thus it will be seen that the trend of our best thought
.and labor is directed toward the elevation of the human
.race and the humane treatment of the animal world.
If, then, school room dissections are so pernicious, such
' educators in cruelty and demoralizers of youth, so also
must be farmyard slaughter and domestic dissections con-
stantly practiced before our children, either directly or
indirectly. And yet we have been so blinded by a car-
nivorous appetite, the discovery is but just dawning upon
our minds that possibly hunting, fishing, trapping game
.and killing every available creature for food may have
had an influence in producing the inharmonious conditions
about us. To examine this matter a little more closely,
» think of the mothers, present and prospective, daily hand-
ling meats of some kind, dissecting, pickling, salting and
i cooking not only the flesh, but the internal organs, and
.serving them as food. And these are the mothers of the
. race, engaged in and constantly familiar with dissections.
Consider a moment this side of the question, and then
» confront yourself with the influence, the relationship these
. acts and surroundings may have upon the children being
created ! The connection between the building material
»and the product is jaerfectly harmonious. And when we
FARMYARD SLAUGHTER AND KITCHEN DISSECTION. 23 1
further take note of the men engaged in the butcher's
trade, we may discover how the surplus of cruelty is being
woven into the web of life.
Upon this rock, "to kill or not to kill for food," stand
thousands to-day. The torturing vivisector, whom we
have unconsciously created and demanded because of
disobedience to the laws of life, turns on us when we cry
out against him, loudly proclaims our inconsistency and
plies his ghastly work more vigorously than ever, a^en nauf
demanding human victims to satisfy his desire to benefit the
race. We earnestly hope that the scientific application of
recent developments will supercede and end this most
unnatural occupation.
Page 92
Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
" Experiments involving infliction of pain or death tend. to blunt and therefore to brutalize children in their human relations. I do not live up to the doctrine, but I believe that our physical as well as sympathetic evolution is moving to the point at which we will be as incapable of killing animals for food for the body as for food for the mind."
Rev. E. B. Graham, editor Midland, Chicago, 111. :
" Children should not be allowed to see game shot by cruel sportsmen, or domestic fowls killed even for food, and much less should they become familiar with cruelty in the interests of education."
Nowhere could there have been found a more brilliant array of talent to emphasize the position taken by the most radical humanitarians and non-flesh eaters. Verily they have testified with deeper significance than they knew, not only for the present generations of youth, but, practically carried out, for all future generations.
It is a significant fact that half the above quotations are from residents of Chicago, the greatest animal slaughtering city on this continent. Let us ever remember that at the World's Fair in 1893, within the walls of the "White City," we were held up to ridicule and shame by the noble and grand expounders of "the law and the gospel" from
.the Orient, because of our inhumanities toward the animal
world.
Albert Leffingwell, M. D., in his profound address
• before the World's Humane Congress at Chicago, said :
" I do not disguise from myself the hope that the time .may come when the substitutes for flesh as food shall be ..so universally procurable, so cheap and abundant that the human race will find a far higher ideal than is generally . held to-day, and refuse to sacrifice any life for the gratification of appetite alone."
Thus it will be seen that the trend of our best thought .and labor is directed toward the elevation of the human .race and the humane treatment of the animal world.
If, then, school room dissections are so pernicious, such ' educators in cruelty and demoralizers of youth, so also must be farmyard slaughter and domestic dissections constantly practiced before our children, either directly or indirectly. And yet we have been so blinded by a carnivorous appetite, the discovery is but just dawning upon our minds that possibly hunting, fishing, trapping game .and killing every available creature for food may have had an influence in producing the inharmonious conditions about us. To examine this matter a little more closely, » think of the mothers, present and prospective, daily handling meats of some kind, dissecting, pickling, salting and i cooking not only the flesh, but the internal organs, and .serving them as food. And these are the mothers of the . race, engaged in and constantly familiar with dissections.
Consider a moment this side of the question, and then
» confront yourself with the influence, the relationship these
. acts and surroundings may have upon the children being
created ! The connection between the building material
and the product is perfectly harmonious. And when we
further take note of the men engaged in the butcher's trade, we may discover how the surplus of cruelty is being woven into the web of life.
Upon this rock, "to kill or not to kill for food," stand thousands to-day. The torturing vivisector, whom we have unconsciously created and demanded because of disobedience to the laws of life, turns on us when we cry out against him, loudly proclaims our inconsistency and plies his ghastly work more vigorously than ever, and even now demanding human victims to satisfy his desire to benefit the race. We earnestly hope that the scientific application of recent developments will supercede and end this most unnatural occupation.