Worthy of Notice | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 27, 1869

Worthy of Notice.

The following from the Detroit Post of July 1, is commended to the attention of those who think they cannot get along without the flesh of dead animals for food. If they have no pity for the poor suffering creatures that are subjected to such brutal treatment as this article describes, they should have some regard for their own health, and some sense of danger to themselves from the use of such diseased flesh as food. If the readers of the REVIEW desire to escape sharing in such occurrences, let them use as food those things which “GOD HATH CREATED TO BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING,” which are fully set forth in the record of the creation. Gen. i, 29. But here is the article from the Post:

“It is reported that an entire car load of calves and sheep, transported over the Morris & Essex railroad, in New Jersey, were discovered to be dead of suffocation and thirst, upon the arrival of the train at Newark. This is horrible, whether viewed as cruelty to animals or to men; for, if these poor beasts had not quite expired, they would have been butchered and their flesh sold to consumers, hot with fever and thirst. Indeed, no doubt much of the meat sold and consumed in large cities dependent upon railroads for their supplies, is the flesh of animals which have undergone the pangs of thirst, hunger, suffocation, and innumerable bruises, while being transported to market. The laws and courts should inflict severe penalties upon half a dozen or more railroads offending in this inhuman manner, if not for the sake of the tortured brutes, at least for the benefit of the men and women who are to eat their flesh. Recently we were told of a whole train-load of cattle, which had been allowed to travel sixty hours over a certain railroad without either food or water. Such incidents are a disgrace to our civilization, and a dishonor to the State which allows them to go unpunished when occurring within its jurisdiction.”