BE CAREFUL ABOUT PORK by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1899

“BE CAREFUL ABOUT PORK.”

By Editor

SUCH is the heading of a note in a recent number of the Sacramento Record-Union. It is a report of a meeting of the Board of Health. The principal reason of the warning is that “hog cholera” was in evidence. The note says:—

“There is considerable hog cholera adjacent to Sacramento,” runs Dr. Nicholas’ report, “and people can not be too cautious about pork.” It is supposed that the cholera was brought here by hogs that have been driven through the county.

The quarantine has been removed from the Perkins ranch, where a number of cattle died of anthrax some weeks ago.

It were better for mortals did they never taste the filthy and unwholesome and diseased swine. “Hog cholera” is incidental, but scrofula and corruption of all sorts are permanencies and constituent elements in the porcine make-up. Total abstinence is the truest temperance and brings the best results, as we can personally testify after years of experience.

The second quoted paragraph is also significant. It is one of hundreds showing how diseased the brute creation is becoming. Thousands of sheep and cattle die of anthrax, murrain, tuberculosis, and other diseases every

year. How many deaths are forestalled by the butcher’s knife, no one knows, least of all perhaps those who eat the poison and suffer from its effects. Better eschew it. Man is not naturally carnivorous. He does not need flesh food. We know of many who have not used it for years who are in exceptionally good health. Nature furnishes all the elements to build up and maintain the human in health as she does the horse. Try it intelligently.