Decomposition of Meat More Serious than Fermentation of Starch
By David Paulson, M.D.
SOME POINTS REGARDING FOOD. No. 4.
Decomposition of Meat More Serious than Fermentation of Starch.
MANY continue to use meat because they find that it does not ferment; but meat decays. While it does not form sour acids and gases, the products of this decomposition often produce biliousness. It is largely responsible for sick-headaches, and for the nervousness which so many people suppose the result of overwork for others, when it is simply due to overworking and overstimulating their own digestive organs by attempting to live upon dead animals and animal products. Another striking reason why we should not use the flesh of animals is because they are continually making waste products in their bodies, the same as we are; and when the animal is killed, these toxic substances are all through the muscles, and we must eliminate them along with the poisons which are formed in our own system. Careful experiments have demonstrated that when a vegetarian lives upon flesh food for a few days, the secretion of his kidneys becomes several times as poisonous as it was when living on the natural products of the earth. Why should we undertake the contract of compelling our eliminative organs to carry off the waste products that the ox should have eliminated? It never has occurred to some people why fruits and grains and nuts do not have eliminative organs. It is because they manufacture no waste products that have to be thrown off. They are foods minus the poisons. When we eat an animal, to get what is represented by the stove itself, or the structure, we have to eat the ashes with it.