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pared for the market, and people eat freely of this poisonous animal
food. Much disease is caused in this manner. But people cannot be
made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten, which has poisoned
their blood, and caused their sufferings. Many die of disease caused
wholly by meat-eating, yet the world does not seem to be the wiser.
Because those who partake of animal food do not immediately feel
its effects, is no evidence it does not injure them. It may be doing its
work surely upon the system, and yet the persons for the time being
realize nothing of it.
Animals are crowded into close cars, and are almost wholly de-
prived of air and light, food and water, and are carried thus thousands
of miles, breathing the foul air arising from accumulated filth, and
when they arrive at their place of destination, and are taken from the
cars, many are in a half starved, smothered, dying condition, and if
left alone, would die of themselves. But the butcher finishes the work,
and prepares the flesh for market.
Animals are frequently killed that have been driven quite a distance
for the slaughter. Their blood has become heated. They are full of
flesh, and have been deprived of healthy exercise, and when they
have to travel far, they become surfeited, and exhausted, and in that
condition are killed for market. Their blood is highly inflamed, and
those who eat of their meat, eat poison. Some are not immediately
affected, while others are attacked with severe pain, and die from fever,
cholera, or some unknown disease. Very many animals are sold for
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the city market, known to be diseased by those who have sold them,
and those who buy them for the market are not always ignorant of the
matter. Especially in larger cities this is practiced to a great extent, and
meateaters know not that they are eating diseased animals.
Some animals that are brought to the slaughter seem to realize
what is to take place, and they become furious, and literally mad. They
are killed while in that state; and their flesh prepared for market. Their
meat is poison, and has produced, in those who have eaten it, cramp,
convulsions, apoplexy, and sudden death. Yet the cause of all this
suffering is not attributed to meat. Some animals are inhumanly treated
while being brought to the slaughter. They are literally tortured, and
after they have endured many hours of extreme suffering, are butchered.
Swine have been prepared for market even while the plague was upon