To the Editor of the "Nomut-Cittea Dany News"
Sm—The "Thoughts, on Vegetarjians" in the London Letter of to-day's {issue are so surprisingly. alien their understanding of the nonnat ways of the many thousands of vegetarians both in the West and the East that 1 should tke to make a comment. or two, vegetarian guest, unless an extremist, which Is ture, need cause a hostess "any reaidileully. The ordinary vegetarian uses mile, butte cheese, and even cags, in addition 10 every' available Kind of fruit" and vegetables. Recipes for vegetarian dishes occur in all modern. cocle books, and there are also quite a, number of completely vegetarian cook books, in which the dishes areas delightful as they are var 'That our meat-eating friends persist in thinking, and so many' do, that fish, chicken and even hare ave vegetables, is always very puzzling to me. Perhaps it ie that they don think!
'A vegetarian is one who abstains from eating the flesh of any sentient being of the animal world, or as Sometimes put—he eats neither fish, sh nor fowl. He does this. from various reasons, but 1 will only give First, it 1s an enrively unnecessary part of human diet, as thousands of healthy active vegetarians can attest, Second, he wilt no longer be a party, to the appalling suffering caused by the superstition. that man needs the Bosh of animals for his food, Man prays for help from ative, but "while he continues to. exploit vith such cruelty the kingdom: me mediately below mis own, his appeals must surely have diMeulty in reach: ing @ kingdom into which only. the /mereitul of heart have right of entry. 'ANIMAL Leven, [Shanghai, Mar, 18, Mavanct Wong Ching-wei, wite of the Chairman of the Central Political Council and herself a member of the Central Executive Committes of the Kuomintang, arrived in Canton on March '25, states a wire to the "Standard." Shortly after her are rival, Madame Wang visited the tombs of the Revolutionary Martyrs,
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