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To Market to Market to Buy ...a Fat Hog?
by Katy Chamberlin
...It’s amazing how much confusion there is out there today regarding
what is healthful food
The world is full of individuals who have fallen prey to all manner of
infirmity, sickness and disease-sometimes merely uncomfortable, but more
often crippling or even fatal-who, either in ignorance or with supposed
superior knowledge, have disregarded the unchangeable health laws.
...Hogs! They were created as scavengers; as a rule they are meat-eating
animals that clean up anything that is left dead in the fields, etc. If
any animal should die in the field and lie in the sun until it is broken
open and the maggots and putrefaction have set in, the swine or other
scavengers will come and eat up the filth and putrid matter. Scavengers
were never meant for human consumption.
...Scavengers, such as the swine, are the filthiest and most abominable
creatures. In their very nature they are poisonous, diseased and deadly.
The flesh of the swine is said by many authorities to be the prime cause
of much of our American ill health, causing blood disease, weakness of
the stomach, liver troubles, eczema, consumption, tumors, cancer, trichinosis,
etc.
...The swine’s anatomy has but one poorly constructed stomach arrangement
and very limited excretory organs generally. Consequently, in about four
hours after the pig has eaten his polluted swill and other putrid, offensive
matter, man may eat the same, second hand-off the ribs of the pig.
...John Johnson, a farmer of Williams, Iowa, speaks on this subject. He
states that the swine in Iowa are principally fed on corn, but “will
eat anything we give them. If anything dies, we throw it to the hogs.
I have actually seen hogs chewing at the cancer of other hogs and these
hogs are shipped to market. Many times cattle are infected from the incurable
diseases of the hog called the ‘mad itch.’ It is transmitted
by the hog’s saliva left on the corn, which cattle eat. The itching
in the cattle becomes so intense they will run from stump to stump until
they rub their skin from their mouths and soon die. When the saliva from
the hog’s mouth will poison cattle in this way, how can hogs be fit
for man to eat?”(1)
...Farmers know that when they are feeding cattle, it pays for them to
keep hogs, so that the hogs can follow after the cattle, eat the filth
from the cattle, and thus turn it into pork for the public market.
...Swine have “running sores” under their hoofs. If you ever
get the opportunity to visit a farm that raises hogs, lift the front hoof
of the hog, and, with just a little pressure, greenish matter will ooze
out from between the toes. This is one small outlet for the various heinous
poisons that the hog takes into his body. Occasionally this artery becomes
stopped up, the poison backs up into his system, and greenish growths
are formed in various parts of his body.
...“On a close analysis of this filthy scrofulous serum, or the ‘culture’
of its bacilli under varied conditions, it is seen to contain the elements
of many dangerous diseases and combinations; yet how toothsome is pickled
pig’s feet to ignorance, unbelief, and disobedience.” (2)
...Some may be led to conclude that if the hog was kept in clean quarters
and given nothing but pure food to eat, its flesh would then be just as
desirable for human consumption as the flesh of any other animal, but
that just isn’t true. The naturally filthy hog could be forced into
the most sanitary conditions, nourished upon delicacies, and still would
be unfit for food due to the basic physiological functions of it system.
For this reason, God states in the Scriptures, “It is unclean to
you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat.”
...The Scriptures warn us about the diseases lurking in these unclean
animals, (they are scavengers of the earth). These signals have been placed
there for very good reasons. They are flashing red lights to keep us from
impending disaster.
...During recent years discoveries by the medical establishment has brought
to light reasons why God, thousands of years ago, condemned the hog as
unfit for food. The microscope has revealed that the flesh of hogs is
often infested with trichina worms, which when taken into the human body,
multiply and begin to work their way through the entire system, even into
the brain and heart This condition is known as trichinosis. Even today
in America, the public is warned and advised to cook ALL pork well done.
This is to make sure that the only trichinae worm you eat is a cooked
one. But it is a known fact that heat does not guarantee the killing of
all pork worms, The larva are very tiny and you can unknowingly swallow
several hundred of them. Then when the natural warmth and even temperature
of your body envelops them, they dissolve and become free to go about
the task of growing and breeding further in your body. To suffer the symptoms
of pork worm poisoning you need not eat but one pregnant parasite. If
the number of parasites is sufficient, the body responds with symptoms
similar to reactions to food poisoning. Later rheumatic-like pains may
begin, or the worms may settle temporarily in the heart. Inflammation
in the cardiac region may follow. In some cases the brain or nervous system
may be disturbed, as though worms had invaded brain or nerves, which possibly
they do. Even invasion of the muscles may be fatal if the worms are numerous
enough.
...“In the pork which we Americans eat, there too often lurk myriads
(countless numbers) of baffling and sinister parasites. They are minute
spiral worms which scientists call Trichinella spirals. A single serving
of infected pork-even a single mouthful-can kill or cripple, or condemn
the victim to a lifetime of aches and pains. In the flesh of a pig, the
trichinae are often so minute and so nearly transparent that to find them,
even with a microscope, is a task for expert scientific inspectors…
...“Remember this: When you see stamped on a pork product the words,
U.S. Government Inspected and Passed, those words do not mean that any
official inspection whatever has been made as to whether this pork has
trichinosis or not. It has merely passed the routine inspection given
meat in general.
...“The trichina is just one worm found in the swine. There is a
large round worm, the gullet worm, three kinds of stomach worms, a tiny
hairworm, a hookworm, and the thornheaded worm, in the small intestine.
There are several species of nodular worms and one species of whipworm
in the large intestine, and the kidney worm. The large round worm can
be as big as eighteen inches.
...“A special report given to medical personnel at a Doctors and
Nurses Conference on Communicable Disease at the Wesley Medical Center,
Wichita, Kansas, in 1962 said that one out of three people are infected
with trichinosis.” (3)
“In a Colorado town pork sausage showing the trichina worms was taken
by the federal pathologists from a peddler of fresh pork sausage after
a family had been made severely ill from eating his product. One girl,
age 18, was so ill that she was taken to the hospital where, on account
of the heavy infestation of her diaphragm, her breathing was so bad that
she had to receive oxygen inhalations three times a day to keep her alive.
A small piece of muscle taken from her deltoid, or shoulder muscle, showed
trichinae infestation. The family was at first diagnosed as having influenza,
or muscular rheumatism. This mistake is probably often made in light cases
of trichinosis, which probably affects about one person out of every four
in this country.
...“In an effort to cull out the trichinae-infested hogs, or the
worst of them, an attempt was made for a time to examine microscopically
the tissues of each hog, by having a room full of microscopists examining
bits of muscle tissue. The difficulty of this can be better understood
when it is known that in Chicago alone there are two packing houses that
can kill, dress, and pack six hundred hogs an hour each, which means an
average of one every six seconds. This effort had to be abandoned as impractical
and expensive, and so the Department of Agriculture, in a bulletin on
trichinosis, says that ‘no practical system has yet been devised
by which persons who eat raw or imperfectly cooked pork can be protected
from the danger of trichinosis.’
...“In this same bulletin it is pointed out that in Germany, where
microscopical examination of pork for trichinae is systematically carried
out, there occurred in seventeen years 6,329 cases of trichinosis, 32
percent of which were from inspected meat that had been passed as free
from trichinae infestation. To safeguard the consuming public, the government
has prepared a poster for the use of the meat trade, warning the public
to ‘cook pork and its products thoroughly.’ The reason is not
given on the poster, but it offers to send an explanatory leaflet on request.
It would not add to the attractiveness of pork as a food, nor would it
tend to increase the sale of pork products, to inform the public bluntly
that among garbage-fed hogs trichinosis infection is common, with a slightly
decreased frequency among hogs in general. Garbage-fed rats have their
tissues loaded with the trichina worms. Hogs eating such rats quickly
become heavily infested with this loathsome disease.
...“As in all the wonderful instruction given by Moses, there was
an excellent reason for his warning against the filth-eating hogs; and
certainly those who do eat them should follow the government’s warning,
for dead trichinae worms are preferable to live ones.” (4)
REFERENCES:
1. Elmer A. Josephson, God’s Key to Health and Happiness, (Fleming
H. Revel Co., N.J., 1962), p 48.
2. The Defender, published in Wichita, Kansas
3. Laird S. Godsborough, Pork, Reader’s Digest, March, 1950
4. O.S. Parrett, M.D. Diseases of Food Animals, (Southern Publishing Association,
Nashville, TN), pp 8-11.
5. (Also) Shahrazad Ali, How Not To Eat Pork, Civilized Publ, Philadelphia,
PA, 1985.
Copyright 1999 - Katy Chamberlin.Freeedom of
Health.
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