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475. Animals are frequently killed that have been driven quite a
distance to the slaughter. Their blood has become heated. They are of
full flesh, and have been deprived of healthy exercise, and when they
have to travel far, they become 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.... 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 this state, and their flesh is
prepared for market. Their meat is poison, and has produced, in those
who have eaten it, cramps, convulsions, apoplexy, and sudden death.—
How to Live, 59, 60
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476. Swine have been prepared for market even while the plague
was upon them, and their poisonous flesh has spread contagious dis-
eases, and great mortality has followed.—
How to Live, 60
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477. Meat eating is doing its work, for the meat is diseased.—
Unpublished Testimonies, August 30, 1896
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478. The flesh which they ate was diseased, and their entire sys-
tem was becoming gross and corrupted.—
Unpublished Testimonies,
August 30, 1897
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479. Death was caused by the abundant eating of meat which at
the last was tainted.—
Unpublished Testimonies, November 5, 1896
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480. Pulmonary diseases, cancers, and tumors are startlingly com-
mon among animals. It is true that the inspectors reject many cattle
that are diseased, but many are passed on to the market that ought to
have been refused.... Thus unwholesome flesh has gone on the market
for human consumption. In many localities even fish is unwholesome,
and ought not to be used. This is especially so where the fish come in
contact with the sewerage of large cities.... The fish that partake of the
filthy sewerage of the drains may pass into waters far distant from the
sewerage, and be caught in localities where the water is pure and fresh;
but because of the unwholesome drainage in which they have been
feeding, they are not safe to eat.—
Unpublished Testimonies, January
19, 1895
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481. The fact that meat is largely diseased should lead us to make
strenuous efforts to discontinue its use entirely.... It will be hard for
some to do this, as hard as for the rum drinker to forsake his dram;