p. 319 | Hard Work on Vegetable Food

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 12, 1875

Hard Work on Vegetable Food.

WHAT would an American laborer think of going without animal food for a whole year? It is regarded as necessary here, not only every day, but for almost every meal. Yet we are told that in Italy men work hard who subsist mainly on beans, peas, and the like, and do not taste animal food. A recent writer on the condition of that country says:—

“No man is considered to be thriving who does not lay in his winter supply of hard beans, or haricots, or lentils, or some of the numerous pulses known here as cicerchie, or cece, or peas. From day to day, in rotation, they are the constant food of the laborer or the operative, who never touches meat from one end of the year to the other, and who will work from sunrise to sunset.”