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VEGETARIANISM , a comparatively modern word, which-came into use abput the year 1847, as applied to the practice of living upon foods from which fish, flesh and fowl are excluded. There have from time to time been various sects or schools ef thought that have advocated narrower views,Some of. these have excluded all animal productssuch as milk and eggs and cheese. Some have excluded all cooked foods, and. have preached the virtues of fruits and nuts and grains in their natural ripe state. Some have abstained from all underground-grown roots and tubers, and have claimed special benefits from using only those fruits and vegetables that are grown in the sunlight. Some have given up all grain and pulse foods, and have declared that old age can be best resisted by living entirely upon fruits, salads, nuts, soft water and milk products. Some have added fish to their dietary; but, speaking generally, all who are called vegetarians will be found to abstain from the use of flesh and fowl and almost invariably also from fish as food. The fact, however, must not be overlooked that while vegetarian societies claim as " vegetarians " all who abstain fro: flesh foods, there is a large and growing number of pepple who repudiate the name of vegetarian " because of its associations, but who none the less, for some of the. reasons detailed below, abstain from eating anything that has been killed. The Order. of the Golden Age, for example, with its headquarters at Barcombe Hall
968 The reasons that are advanced for the practice of fruitarianism or vegetarianism are very comprehensive, but the principal ones ,may be considered to be the following:- 1. Health.(a) On the ground that animals are affected by diseases which are communicable, and are actually communicated, to man by the ingestion of their flesh, e.g. parasites, tuberculosis; (0) on the ground that the flesh of artificially fed animals is full of excretory substances, and that, therefore, under modern conditions, flesh-eating is injurious, and may be a cause of excretory substance and uric acid deposits or rapid tissue-destroying diseases in man; e.g. gout, cancer. 2. Economy
3. Social Economy
4. Racial Improvement.On the ground that the aim of every prosperous community should be to have a large proportion of hardy
5. Character Improvement.On the ground that after the virtues of courage and valour and fearlessness have been taught in the lower stages of evolution the virtue of gentle humaneness and extended sympathy for all that can suffer should be taught in the higher cycles of the evolutionary spiral. Flesh-eating entailing necessarily an immense volume of From upon the sentient animal creation should be abstained from by the " higher classes " in the evolutionary scale. Organizations have been established to advocate this method of living under the name of " Vegetarian Societies " in many countrieschiefly the United Kingdom, America, Germany, France, Austria, Holland and Australia. Propagandism is carried on by lectures, literature, cookery demonstrations and restaurants. In England, the oldest and one of the most important societies is " The Vegetarian Society," of which the headquarters are at Oxford Street, Manchester. There are also several small London societies, and an active London Association. A few provincial towns, too, have small societies. An attempt has been made to organize the various vegetarian societies of the world under the title of " The Vegetarian Federal Union." The headquarters of the London societies and of the " Union " are at Memorial Hall
There are nominally about 35 organized societies in existence, but the extent to which public opinion and practice in the matter of dietary has been affected by vegetarianism is not to be gauged by the membership of such organizations. There are in England a number of vegetarian restaurants and boarding-houses, one hospital and one or two sanatoria. In Germany and America there are many institutions where flesh is only prescribed in special cases. Flesh food is not included in the dietary of the chief
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In the religious world the Seventh-Day Adventists (who are connected with many sanatoria and the manufacture of food specialities) and some Bible Christians, the worshippers of Vishnu and the Swami Narang and Vishnoi sects, amongst others, preach abstinence from flesh food. The Salvation Army, the Tolstoyans and the Doukhobors encourage it. A number of orders in the Roman Catholic church (e.g. the Trappists) and in the Hindu faith (e.g. the Dadupanthi Satins) are pledged abstainers. The general question of food values is discussed if the article DIETETICS; see also NUTRITION. But there is no doubt that;whatever may be the view taken as to the extreme theory - of vegetarianism; it has had considerable effect in modifying the excessive meat-consuming regime of previous days, and in introducing new varieties of vegetable cooking into the service of the table. The literature on the subject is considerable, but the two classics are perhaps The Ethics of Diet, by Howard Williams, and The Perfect Way in Diet, by Dr Anna Kingsford. In former years the Vegetarian Society " was the most active in producing literature, but since about i9oi the Order of the Golden Age has come to the front with new and up-to-date books, booklets and leaflets,.and the Ideal Publishing Union has reprinted much of the earlier literature. The chief
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