Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — A FIGHTING DIET. [ARTICLE]

A FIGHTING DIET.

Swell Is Said to Be That of the Vegetarian. I regret to say that vegetarianism is a fighting»diet, writes G. B. Shaw in the London Vegetarian. Ninety-nine per cent, of the world’s fighting has been done oii farinaceous food. In Trafalgar square I found it impossible to run away as fast as the meat eaters did. Panic is a carnivorous specialty. If the army were fed on a hard}* healthy, fleshless diet we should hear no more of the disgust of our colored troops and of the Afridis and Fuzzywuzzies at the cowardice of Tommy Atkins. lam myself congenitally timig, but as a vegetarian I can generally conceal my tremors; whereas in my unregenerate days, when I ate my fellow-creatures, I was as patient a coward as Peter the Great. The recent spread of fire-eating Action and Jingo war worship— a sort of thing that only interests the pusillanimous—is due to the spread of meat eating. Compare the Tipperary peasant to the potatoes-and-buttermilk days with the modern gentleman who gorges himself with murdered cow. The Tipperary man never read bloody-minded novels or cheered patriotic music hall tableaus, but he fought recklessly and wantonly. Your carnivorous gentleman is afraid of everything—lncluding doctors, dogs, disease, death and truth-