NOT VIVISECTION!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 39, 11 January 1944, Page 8

NOT VIVISECTION!

EXPERIMENT UPON LIVING BEINGS LADY KVK BALFOUR'S CHEAT AVORK '"Toll mc Avliat you eat and I ayill tell you what you arc,'' ay role a brilliant Frenchman some 1.10 years ago. M. Lriliat-Savarin. however, AYas nol the discoverer oi' the truths underlying the. idea thus expressed.. About 2100 years ago Hippocrates, the Father of medicine, applied, the principles of nutrition and *of hygiene to the prevention, amelioration and cure of disease, at the same time instructing his' patients and disciples in the self-evident truth that such physical constituents of health as AYere omitted to be taken in through tine mouth were also deprived of an opportunity of being assimilated by the body. Soil Population .Lady love 15a! four, one of Britain's scientific agriculturists., .now directs Bri llat-Savarin's epigrammatic v» mark not only to the Avorld of men. plants and animals existing upon the surface of the earth, but also to that .further world, of tiny soil-plants any liny soil-animals winch live., breathe, eat and drink within the actual soil itself. "Toll me," says Lady Eve, in effect, to the innumerable legions of the living constituents of the soil—''Tell me what you cat and L will tell you Avliat you .J 11 , re! I'f you tell me. that you are bei"g given dead or artificial foods to cat, if you tell me you are being :>adlv treated in the matter of aeration and soil-water, I will tell you that your biological balance has been [upset; that large numbers of you [figure among the dead, the mutilat|ed and the missing; and that 3-011 nave thus been deprived of the. opportunity of passing on to the plants and animals living upon your pro-, ducts theso organic elements ncces-1 ary to the health, strength fertility And sanity of mankind.

'"On the. other hand," continues this ultra-modern farmer, "if you tell me that you, as constituents, of the living soil, are eating Avhole foods, I'la'c foods, organic foods and if at the same time you are being Avoll supplied Avith -good 'air and water, 1 in n.'L"i;rp. will tell you that you are in this way being alequate!y equipped for the fulfilment of your true role in Nature's scheme of/mutual co-operation for universal .health and Avell-bcing. I Avill further tell you from my own cxperi<ence that you are producing plants of optimum health, vigour . and -beauty strongly disease-resistant and practically free from parasitic attack. And 1 Avill telf you.tlK'tt you are definitely performing |he speclr. fie and all-important work ..for .yhich Providence expressly designed yoit. The Nation . "Tell me what you cat, you'people of Britain," proclaims Lady live, "anil I will tell you what you are! If you are content to loak upon food as a chemical product only—even as a machine-made product!—if you arc therefore satisfied to cat foodstuffs grown to a large extent from deficient soils, I \vill tell you that just as certain conditions breed crime and criminals, so> other conditions breed, disease and Invalids! Further, I will tell you that the 1 number of working weeks lost by reason of sickness in the .British Isles reach scores of millions each year and that the cost of such ill-* iiesses (in service alone) amount to nearly two hundred million pounds per annum.