We English-speaking people, who pride ourselves on our civilisation and religion; who call ourselves the followers of the gentle Jesus, the Prince of Peace; yet hunt, shoot, trap and torture animals for food sport and science.  Our main reason for eating flesh is that of personal gratification.  We are loath to admit that the lower animals have any rights.  Those Eastern peoples who are adherents to the teachings of the gentle Buddha hold life sacred.  Mr. H. Fielding, who lived many years amongst the simple-minded Burmese, says that though there is now no law against the sale of beef, yet no respectable Burman will even now, kill cattle or sell beef.  No life at all may be taken by him who keeps to Buddhistic teaching, and this is a commandment wonderfully well kept.  “He believes that all that is beautiful in life is founded on compassion and kindness and sympathy—­that nothing of great value can exist without them.  Do you think that a Burmese boy would be allowed to birds’-nest or worry rats with a terrier, or go ferreting?  Not so.  These would be crimes.  That this kindess and compassion for animals has very far-reaching results, no one can doubt.  If you are kind to animals, you will be kind, too, to your fellow-men.”

By participating in any form of cruelty or injustice, not only to our fellow-men, but also to the lower animals, we retard our progress towards the higher life, the subtler forces in man cannot find their full expression and we are less responsive to spiritual influences.

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|                        THE STANDARD NUT MEAT.                        |
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|                               PROTOSE                                |
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|   Made from choice grains and nuts so combined as to produce         |
|   a food resembling beef-steak in appearance, taste, and nutriment,  |
|   but free from all the tissue wastes found in animal foods.         |
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|   Protose constitutes a perfect substitute for all flesh foods,      |
|   to which it is much to be preferred.                               |
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|   It tastes good, promotes health and vigour, and imparts            |
|   great staying power.                                               |
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|   The success of Protose is based upon merit, and the best           |
|   advertisement of Protose is--Protose.                              |
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|   Literature more fully descriptive of Protose and of our other      |