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Some persons in Europe carry their notions about cruelty to animals so far as not to allow themselves to eat animal food. Many very intelligent men have, at different times of their lives, abstained wholly from flesh; and this too with very considerable advantage to their health.
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I am inclined to think that the inconvenience which some persons experience from vegetable food is only temporary; a few repeated trials would soon render it not only safe but agreeable, and a disgust to the taste of flesh, under any disguise, would be the result of the experiment.
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The Carmelites and other religious orders, who subsist only on the productions of the vegetable world, live to a greater age than those who feed on meat, and in general herbivorous persons are milder in their dispositions than other people.
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Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Born:
November 9, 1789
Died:
February 2, 1860
(aged 70)
Bio:
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was an English astronomer and naturalist.
Known for:
Logic, Induction and Sets
Reasoning about Theoretical Entities
OBSERVATIONS OF THE NATURALHIS
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