XIII VEGETARIANISM

IN the future, Man will undoubtedly accustom himself to live exclusively on a vegetarian diet, because it is healthier, cheaper, much cleaner in and about the home and requires no killing, so that the clean, refined and sympathetic man and woman of the future will more and more adopt scientific vegetarianism, living on the simple nutritious foods of grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, etc., and plenty of pure water at ordinary temperature as a wholesome drink to keep the bowels active and the system clean and vigorous.

No Stimulants and Narcotics—opium, liquor, tobacco, tea and coffee as beverages—will be used. Posterity will then not make an opium den and a smoke house of their homes, workshops and public places, and not impair digestion and mar beauty with brain-stealing liquor and cups of deteriorating tea and coffee.

There will also be much less cooking, and little or no frying, for boiled food is much healthier and also much cleaner in the home than frying it. Much more of the foods will be eaten raw in the future which will go far toward preserving good digestion and sound, beautiful teeth. Many persons, especially children, will likely not come to the table in 54Modern Paradise for days at a time. They will frequently eat fresh raw fruits, vegetables, melons, nuts, etc., which they take from the garden, orchard and greenhouse whenever they get hungry, winter and summer.

We may thus readily surmise that Man will be the only large land animal (perhaps a few large sea animals will likely always remain) on Earth in the future. Increase of population and advancing civilization has already crowded out practically all the wild animals in all the leading countries of the world. In the cities, practically all the domestic animals, except some of the horses, have also disappeared, and now comes the motor car, truck and tractor which rapidly supersede the lonely and much abused horse, and this decrease in the number and kind of animals will undoubtedly continue until Man will be the only large land animal on Earth.

With the disappearance of the animals will also come the clearing away of the offensive stables, sties, roosts, pens and pastures, as well as the species of insects and parasites that live on animals and their offal. Think what our city streets would be if there were as many teams on the streets as there are now automobiles on them. Would not the dirt and offensive odor be intolerable?

55When the leaky and noisy steam and gasoline engines are superseded by electric power, will the streets, driveways and garages also be much cleaner, healthier and quieter. The only animals in my ideal Modern Paradise would be song birds, fowls for eggs and bees for honey. No hay and other feed for animals would have to be raised and no chores to do; only food for Man would then be produced, so that the world would then be much cleaner, healthier, easier, quieter and safer.

We may also notice that the general sympathy and regard of Man for the welfare and lives of other creatures has already developed to such an extent that perhaps more than 75 per cent of the people would no longer eat meat, if they personally had to do the killing, especially the killing of the large animals, such as sheep, calves, hogs, deer and cattle, and that sympathy and kindness will continue to develop to such an extent that the hunter, fisher, butcher and hangman will become social outcasts.

There is also no doubt, but what we can get better and much cheaper and cleaner substitutes as a diet from the vegetable kingdom than from the animals, as in the case of Mazola, a purely vegetable product made from corn, which is much better and cheaper than the 56best lard, tallow or even butter; so it will also be with meat, milk, hides, furs, feathers, wool and every other animal product. In time, they will, no doubt, all have better vegetable substitutes than the present animal products are, for there is no element in the animals that is also not first in the vegetable.