VEGETARIANISM AND PEACE

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 11 September 1933, Page 7

VEGETARIANISM AND PEACE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TBESS. . Sir, —I am glad you allow such letters as Mr N. M. Bell's (and mine too) to be sandwiched among the political ones on this page. I agree with Mr Bell that children should have some slaughter-house education, especir' 1 y girls, in the matter of fowl killing, as there is no telling how many of them may not be doomed ("destined" is perhaps the better word) to become farmers' wives. I was once the assistant at the job of preparing three or four dozen fowls for market. My "expert" mate was a bungling killer. "Here, give me that one." I tried my rabbit-killing experience on that fowl's neck and I killed the rest; so I think a sum should be put on the estimates to. supply all the technical colleges with dummy fowls with rubber-jointed necks for the girls to practise on. I would like to refer Mr Bell to the first pages of the Bible where it is stated that the Lord made clothes for Adam and Eve out of the skins, of animals, which were perhaps struck by lightning: an accident, an act of God, as the insurance companies term it. I have heard it said that our teeth, especially our eye-teeth, place us in the carnivora class. Mr Bell may. be pinning his faith on the fact that bur wisdom teeth appear last and that eventually they will dominate our eye-teeth, flesh-eating traits! Some may even accuse Mr Bell of being impious, not being pleased with the class in which God has been pleased to place him.—Yours, etc., ' PETER TROLOVE. | September 9, 1933. TO THE EDITOK OP THE PBESS. Sir, —Some wise philosopher long ago said, "Man is the sum total of his own thoughts!" I agree, for the human family more each day manifests 'a condition of mind foreign to man's natural desires and outlook. Mr N. M. Bell would employ the vegetarian diet in his very wholesome ambition to bring peace on earth, goodwill to all men. In this his ideals clash with the mass mind or thought; for notwithstanding the revolt of man against destroying the most priceless thing on earth, life, we see the cream of our manhood proudly marching and bearing weapons to destroy Human life, and gentle womanhood doing service behind the lines. They act in accordance with their thoughts; living examples of the power of the mass mind, directed and controlled by an intelligence which in turn is dominated chiefly by a false idea of patriotism, and the determination to prevail over all opposition in the field of material gam. Were it possible for N. M. Bell to place the great human, family on a vegeterian diet, his .ideals would still remain unattainable, through the present fundamental principles making war possible and . a necessary safety-valve to our social order. Speaking from experience, the abattoirs and other places for destroying life contain the most humane tvpes of man with a feeling and understanding unimpaired by tne gruesome surroundings. But rattle a drum Dlav a bugle, and these same, rational minds at once come under the influence of the mass mind.—Yours, C g' TICE SeDtember 9, 1933.