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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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sh torture of innocent animals.) Cattle are not theonly sufferers, but the swine are also pierced, and often plunged intoscalding water before they are dead! The butchers say that thespear is used for killing wild cattle only; but one who frequents theabattoir says that the contrary is the fact. Even the windlass is abarbarous instrument. With this a noose is fastened to the animals THE FOOD WE EAT. 71 hind leg: the machinery is started, the bullock tumbles over, andafter being swung up alive, his throat is cut. In Cincinnati butchersknock their hogs on the head with a long-handled hammer, but inChicago, the writer thinks, dumb brutes are killed humanely.A rope communicating with a windlass passes through a ring in thefloor, and is made fast to the bullocks horn. Then a man turns acrank, and the animal is gently led into the slaughter-house, where,at one blow, he falls to the floor. The executioner never misses hismark, because the bullocks head is held immovable by the ring. Fig. 20.
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THE ANIMALS WE SLAUGHTER. Farmers who do the slaughtering upon their own premises, fortheir family use, generally treat their animals with greater gentle-ness ; but under the best of circumstances, cutting the throats oflambs, knocking cattle on the head, piercing the jugular of the hog,guillotining poultry with an axe, cannot be done in any way toavoid shocking the sensibilities of people who have kind hearts andeducated heads. It is in vain to talk of this murderous work being-done humanely, and such are its effects upon those styled butchers,that they are not allowed, in some States, to sit upon a jury in casesinvolving the life of the criminal! The late Henry Bergh, who effected so much in mitigating 72 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. the cruelties practised on animals, writing to Dr. Holmes, remarkedas follows :— I believe as you do, that the abolition of the use ofthe flesh of all animals would result in physical and moral improve-ment to our race. Having been in cou

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