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appearance, it may be perfectly good and wholesome, may yet be tainted with some form of tubercular disease, which inspite of the utmost care of the Government Inspectors can not be detected at all. Not only this, it is rather next to impossible to find animals for food purposes not tuberculous, since it bas been found some time ago that, even the dairy cows at Windsor belonging to the Royal Family of England were so. It thus appears to me that, for an intellectual worker, meat-eating is incongenial from a scientific point of view. In addition to bringing in diseases, it brings in sloth as is generally to be observed in case of carnivorous animals.
To judge the effect of food on human body, even amongst the working classes of Europe, we see the French, the Italian, the Swiss etc to use vegetables as staple food. They use meat occasionally, on festival days, banquet days, or at any time when they have desire of taking some refreshing food. But in health and vigour, they are far superior to such meat-eating Teutonic people as the English. And here in India, the best athletes, the most conspicuous for hardihood and endurance and the best part of Indian Troops, the finest in the world are out of a people and are people who have not tasted animal food for innumerable years and countless generations.
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