Book Title: Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1911 Book 07
Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference
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જન કેન્ફરન્સ હેરલ્ડ.
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Beef--Eaters Poisoned? Startling reports of meat-poisoning cases are given in Our Slaughter House System, Puplished by Messrs. George Bell and Sons, Lodon, from which I quote the following Para:
"In Bregenz, in the case of a cow which had been slaughtered on account of injuries to the genital canal, and the retention of the after-birth ( in some cases ouly broth made of the flesh was consumed), 51 PERSONS WERE TAKEN VIOLENTLY ILL, especially those who had eaten the liver, and 6 PERSONS DIED. Through eating the flesh of a cow wnich had been seized with sickness after the birth of its calf, and which had to be destroyed, 84 PERSONS WERE POISONED, 5 OF WHOM DIED. In Nordhausen, the flesh of a cow which had been destroyed after suffering from acute diarrhea and prostration, CAUSED ILLNESS IN THE CASE OF 400 PEOPLE, 7 OF WHOM FAILED TO RECOVER. In Wurzen, 206 PERSONS WERE ATTACKED WITH ILLNESS, SIXFATALLY, who had eaten the flesh cf a cow which had been slaughtered on a account of inflammation of the udder and aralysis of the hind quarters.”
WHY BEEF-EATERS ARE POSINED. The following opinion of Dr. Cooper, late chairman of the L. C. C. Health committee, published in the Herald of the Golden Age, July, 1906, shows why beef-eaters are poisoned:
“ Do you know there are 4,000 cows in London kept for milking purposes alone? About a guarter of the number have to be renewed every year. I know that there are many Lonourable men in the business, but I also know that very few of the 1,000 cows which are displaced every year go to the kpacker's yard. They go to the butcher. When a cow is drained of its milk, it is not fit for human food. It often
