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Weeds by Mary T. Hoffman

Herbert M. Shelton
American naturopath,alternative medicine advocate, pacifist, vegetarian, encouraged rawism and fasting
(1895-1985)

“Tenderness and mercy and gentility, and all the spiritual qualities that set man off so greatly from beasts of prey, are lacking in the lion, tiger, wolf and other carnivores. The claim that man has evolved to such a high mental plane and spiritual plane that he must have meat is exactly the opposite of the facts. He must crush and harden his higher nature in order to hunt and fish and prey.”

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