Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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To-day there is the chemical fact... ...which none can gainsay that the products of the vegetable kingdom contain all that is necessary for the fullest sustenance of human life. Flesh is an unnatural food, and, therefore, tends to create functional disturbance...... Flesh-eating is one of the most seri. ous causes of the diseases that carry off ninety-nine out of every hundred people that are born."
This is the opinion of Dr. Oldfield, D. C. L., M. A., M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P. Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., F. R. C.P., F. R. S., Professor of Pathology at the Cambridge University, also holds :
“ Meat is absolutely unnecessary for perfectly healthy existence, and the best work can be done on a vegetarian diet. Vegetarians have done a great deal in a quiet way to make possible that simpler life for which a great number of people are crying out very loudly without any definite idea of what they mean."
Those also who have given up meat and taken to a vegetarian menu have nothing but praise for a non-flesh diet. “I have abstained,” writes Mr. S. Saunders, in the Herald of the Golden Age, for July 1904, “I have abstained from fish, flesh and fowl for 62 years, and I have been observant of the rules of health. I have never had a headache, never been in bed a whole day from illness or suffered pain except from trivial accidents. I have led a very happy, and I hope somewhat useful life, and now in my 88th year I am as light and lissom and as capable of receiving a