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conservative cooking and a little thought and practice-which are delicious, bland, and nutritions in their nature.
Certainly, thought, combined with knowledge and same care, is required in the preparation of vegetarian menus. But that is because, as mea!-eaters we are so taken up with our pouliry and game, meat and fish, that most of us have never learnt to cook anything else, and have absolutely no idea how delicious other foods can taste when properly prepared.
There remains one other point to be mentioned before the subject of meat-eating is lest. I havd after had it said to me that fruits and vegetables, ton, have life and that I am cruel and kill when I eat them, I agree because I cannot do otherwise, and reply that as I have not yet been able to train myself to abstain from eatiog altogether, I restrict my depredations until I can to those that are least harmful. From the point of view of the resulting barm and effect, all killing is not identically che game. Vegetables belong to the one-sensed type of life. They possess only the sense of touch, and are seemingly lifeless. Animals are the five-censed beings, only distinguishable from ourselves by the gift of intellect - which so many of us who possess it abuse or forget to use.
The Killing with vegetables, does not produce the same revulsion of feeling is us that the sight of carcases and the slaughtering of living animals does or should do. Vegetables do not writhe when they are cut and torn open; thep have no visible sease-organs that in animals look so stark and grim in death; they do not appeal for mercy with eyes and shrieks. Therefore, unlike the meat eater, he who eats fruits and vegetables, has not to shut bis eyes to so much pain and suffering on the part of the victims of his ay petite. The layman can, if he so wishes, go without eating fruits and vegetables for certain perlods. He can, say for a day, every now and then avoid them altogether, confining his eating to such things as coreals, milk. bread etc. In this way, he expresses something of bis regret for eating even them and at the same time, softens and purifiei his heart still further.
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