Stop Eating Meat and Help Stop the Killing (1910)

AUTHOR: Moore, J. Howard

PUBLICATION: “Stop Eating Meat and Help Stop the Killing.” Santa Cruz Sentinel  Vol. 56 no. 95 (21 April 1910): 3 (col. 6-7). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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SUMMARY (Ridvan Askin, edited Deborah Madsen):

Moore explicitly calls on his readers to stop eating meat. “There are grains of all kinds and in hundreds of forms, vegetables, dairy products, eggs, nuts, and fruits. These foods are just as nourishing and delicious as flesh foods and many of them much more so. They are also more wholesome” (col. 6), Moore contends. Many diseases are cause by “meat eating” (col. 6). Moore also repeats the arguments that the human is “anatomically a vegetarian,” that vegetarianism is more economical, and that a vegetarian diet affords at least as much “energy and endurance” as a diet based on animal food (col. 6). It is also more ethical. He then makes several suggestions for a variety of purely plant-based soups, salads, and main dishes. He also suggests several substitutes for meat, of which he thinks “[b]eans are the cheapest and easiest” (col. 7). Nuts and Protose also work well. Moore ends on the note that vegetarianism also contributes to “the rights of children” in so far as they will no longer be employed “in the meat business.” “Everybody who stops eating meat,” Moore concludes, “helps to free somebody from the business of killing” (col. 7).