CANCER AND MEAT EATING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12933, 12 October 1907, Page 10

CANCER AND MEAT EATING.

TO THE KDITOB OF "THE PRESS." gir __'fo-day you publish c cablegram from New York, corroborating the Australian suggestion that cancer is said to Ik> dtie to excess in animal food. Is it a fact that dogs will not eat porkP I find that my dog—a collie—will not, and my man says he never knew a dog that would. I gave the dog eotne roast pork which had—humanly most appetising odour. The oanin« mind thought otherwise. He sniffed at the pork—didn't turn up his nose and go, but seemed rather to be drawn to it in some way, although be was car*ful not rto touch it. If you can imagine a doctor trying to detect the smell of ahnonds in the corpse of a suicide you •will catch the idea of ihis manner I wish to convey. What eeerua to mc to be strange about this is that the dog behaves as if lie had read the fourteenth chapter of Deuteronomy and believed it. I can see nothing wrong with porky-can amell nothing wrongbut there is evidently en occtrlt quality in it which is outside mv perceptions but within my dog's. The nature of that quality both the Bible and the dog seem to coincide in condemning. I suggest, for your consideration that cancer in human-beings may T>e due to their disregard of God's injunction in respect to swine. It ie quite certain that if swine were unclean animals i& Moses's time they are etill unclean animals. They etifl divide the hoof and chew no cud. Natural selection, if it has don© anything, which ie doubtful, may have accentuated the unsavoury distinction. The uncleannees I take to bo— not the exterior defilement—but some constitutional uncleanness—some hidden malignancy, in the very eud>. stance—the materia —of the animal— a malignancy which might descend undisoerned to the third and fourth generation of swine-eatere and in them develop the etage in which i*e effects first become obvious. An interesting quev tion which I ivish to put is "Are Jews subject to cancer P" If statistics show Jews to be immune wi n^i on^ ly that we get the Bible back into schools at once by Governors order without discussion or waste of time and opportunity. Afterward* some of our leisure might b« profitably devoted to this problem. •Oiven cancer as the product of inattention to a email portion of the Si * #h'"Sr bec °n-t°>oV the penalty rL- 4 from echoota of God's .Word in globo." The answer to w! ST Ot feil *° be "•rtJiS.--SUBSCRIBER.