p. 16 | We Do Not Need It by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 16, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 33.

We Do Not Need It

By Editor

We Do Not Need It.—A friend sends us a clipping, illustrated, entitled "Don't Boil the Poor Lobster." And we won't. We have no desire to boil him, or eat him after he has been boiled. We have food that is better. The cut is entitled, "The Humane Way to Kill a Lobster," and shows where to place the knife, to kill it quickly—good advice, we should judge, for the lobster, to those who prepare him for food; for he is generally killed by boiling. But he who, for years, has lived upon a fare consisting of clean, wholesome fruits, grains, nuts, and milk, and vegetables, if desired (and we know it is good), no such advice is needed concerning lobsters, crabs, or any other crustacean, or living, animate existence of any kind. There is, reader, a real joy in living, when you know life has not been sacrificed nor pain inflicted to satisfy your appetite. And there is also satisfaction and health in knowing that your diet is wholesome, sufficient, and temperate in all its tendencies. He who, with a clear conscience, lives on such foods as the above, properly cooked, compounded and masticated, can go longer without food, has a better appetite, is satisfied with simple fare, and possesses a clearer mind and spiritual vision than his flesh-eating brother, other things, of course, being equal. Try it, and see.