American meat and its influence upon the public health / by Albert Leffingwell.

  • Leffingwell, Albert, 1845-1916.
Date:
1910
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Credit: American meat and its influence upon the public health / by Albert Leffingwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    patible with the highest degree of intellectual vigour and physical endurance. Sometime, surely, the day will dawn when a more enlightened Humanity will cease to require the sacrifice of blood. It may be at an epoch far beyond our own, when human life and health shall have a value unrecognised to-day, and when the con¬ quest of disease and premature death shall have been attained, not so much by the discovery of “ cures,” as by the discovery of causes, and the avoidance of every condition that tends to deprave. Meantime, do any of us wish now to escape from enslavement to the slaughter-house ? Nothing but our own will prevents complete emancipation. We have but to renounce what it tenders. The shambles cannot hold us in subjection a day longer than we consent. Before each one of us is the open door.