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question if we cannot give life, what right have we to destroy it ? Suppose the vegetable food is not better than the animal; man has not, therefore, a right to crush down the other beings which inhabit the universe. Another argument is that if the animals allowed to increase, they will become injurious, through their numbers. We know there will not be super-abundance among people who do not make a business of raising cattle for the purpose of killing them. In our country, where there is no such a thing as cattle-farming for the purpose of killing them but only for the purpose of giving milk, there has never been a super-abundance of animals. Those who have lived mostly on meat, do not understand cooking vegetables. The cooking in this country is equivalent to boiling, and boiling, is not cooking, that is, the food should be cooked to such a degree that it is palatable, nutritious and not Injurious. Take, for instance, rice. When that is cooked in the ordinary American fashion, it is cooked till it is paste, which might be very good to paste paper on a wall, but is not good to eat.
We know that the growth of nature is slow of process, and must take its natural time, and if you cook any articles too quickly, it will be spoiled. Everything is done in haste in this country. They say that they have no time, How do they utilize the time which is saved ? For the public good ? But
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