Untitled article by J. H. WAGGONER.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 6, 1867

ITEMS ON DIET.

By J. H. WAGGONER.

A HOTEL in the city that did not furnish beef-steak would not be largely patronized, yet few know or care to consider the nature of the food they are eating. Some have appeared surprised when we stated that we dare not eat it; and they consider our statements in regard to the animals killed for food as exaggerations. We commend to their notice the following from the Toledo Blade:

“A gentleman connected with the police department of Chicago has testified before the Board of Health that most of the cattle reserved for consumption in the city are so weak that they have to be conveyed to the slaughter house on drays, and that as to the others, it is sheer cruelty to make them walk. Many of them are covered with sores; some are gored by the horns of others, while some have had their own horns knocked off by overcrowding. Many are so far gone when they reach the yards that they must needs have their throats cut in the cars to prevent them from dying of exhaustion. Those which are too weak to stand are of course trampled on by the stronger. When they reach the yards they are dragged out with ropes, put on drays, and sent to the slaughter house. Occasionally a marketable animal is sent up—to cover a long series of transgressions, but nearly all the animals that can survive the journey are taken to eastern cities.”

And by the time the remainder get to the eastern cities they are just as unfit for food as those left behind at Chicago, and other places.

The following contains a remedy; valuable, no doubt, to those who need it. I have seen it in several papers under the head of drinking at meals:—

“When fat meats, or sauces composed partly of butter, are taken, and cold drink directly after, the butter and fat are rendered concrete, and separated from the rest of the aliment. This congealed oily matter being then specifically lighter then the remaining contents of the stomach, swims on the top of the food, often causing heavy, uneasy, painful sensations about the cardia and breast, and sometimes a feeling of anxiety; at other times, when the stomach regains its heat, the fatty matter is rejected, by little and little, from weak stomachs, in oily regurgitations, which are very disagreeable. In such cases, a little compound spirits of hartshorn, with a glass of warm water and sugar, will convert the fat into soap, and will give instant relief.”

Good so far as it goes! but I think it may be improved. Thus, if people will put such compounds into their stomach, they may avoid the necessity of setting up a soap factory in them, and be free from all these horrible feelings, too, by eating their soap ready made! We charge nothing for this “R.,” as the Dr’s. write it, yet for ourselves we have “a more excellent way.” But grease-eating epicures will not appreciate it, if we declare it unto them. So we must leave them to the rare enjoyments of “oily regurgitations,” or soap eating. J. H. WAGGONER.