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Title: No Animal Food
and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

Author: Rupert H. Wheldon

Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22829]

Language: English

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NO ANIMAL FOOD

AND

NUTRITION AND DIET

WITH

VEGETABLE RECIPES

BY

RUPERT H. WHELDON

HEALTH CULTURE CO.
NEW YORK--PASSAIC, N. J.

PREFACE

The title of this book is not ambiguous, but as it relates to a subject
rarely thought about by the generality of people, it may save some
misapprehension if at once it is plainly stated that the following pages
are in vindication of a dietary consisting wholly of products of the
vegetable kingdom, and which therefore excludes not only flesh, fish,
and fowl, but milk and eggs and products manufactured therefrom.

THE AUTHOR.

This work is reprinted from the English edition with changes better
adapting it to the American reader.

THE PUBLISHERS.

MAN'S FOOD

Health and happiness are within reach of those who provide themselves
with good food, clean water, fresh air, and exercise.

A ceaseless and relentless hand is laid on almost every animal to
provide food for human beings.

Nothing that lives or grows is missed by man in his search for food to
satisfy his appetite.

Natural appetite is satisfied with vegetable food, the basis for highest
and best health and development.

History of primitive man we know, but the possibilities of perfected and
complete man are not yet attained.

Adequate and pleasant food comes to us from the soil direct, favorable
for health, and a preventive against disease.

Plant food is man's natural diet; ample, suitable, and available;
obtainable with least labor and expense, and in pleasing form and
variety.

Animal food will be useful in emergency, also at other times; still,
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