Chapter VII: Appendix: Poisoning and Adulterating Foods

Foods may be adulterated and not seriously injured. There are isolated cases where by adulteration they may be made even less harmful, as in the case of peppers, coffee and other stimulants, irritants and narcotics, but these exceptions are rare.

Adulteration, artificial coloring, preservatives and the limitless number of drugs and chemical compounds used in corrupting the Natural article so as to make it appear what it is not--make it conform to some alleged virtue falsely advertised to deceive trusting people into purchasing it, all originated in greed for gain. This may be well called “The Crowning Crime of the Age.” It marks the most depraved branch of American commercialism.

It is a well-known fact that the best paid chemists in this country are hired to adulterate, to preserve, to color and poison food rather than to purify, protect and lift the standard of its life giving value.

Think of a human being whose one object in life is to get money and to accomplish this spends days, months, and years in his laboratory or over the experimental crucible employing his brain and genius, not in trying to better the condition and promote the happiness of his fellow creatures, but in compounding some concoction that will swindle, deceive and poison the helpless babe, the innocent youth, the hopeful maiden and man, and those weighted with the burden of years, and yet the scientist or chemist who has worked out the scheme is a shining star of virtue compared with his criminal master who is to feed out this perverted provender to the American people--the most tolerant race beneath the sun.

For his corrupted wares he gets a price--gets money, with part of which he can only buy some clothes, some food, and a shelter, and with the balance he can flaunt himself in conspicuous array before the eyes of his fellows, for which he gains their envy rather than their love and respect; while if they knew the truth they would rise in their wrath and bury the Benedict Arnold beneath a mountain of his malodorous filth.

A careful study of the food question has brought these crimes to my attention with an emphasis that is appalling.

The poisonous coloring, preserving and baser matter used in all kinds of canned, preserved, and pickled fruits, vegetables, meats and bread materials is a matter of common knowledge. Poisonous stuff to make bread raise warranted by “Fagan, Sykes & Co.” to be absolutely pure is known to contain deadly poison.

In a few years from now, when the American people have given to the food question the place it deserves--made it the most important of all the sciences--the disgrace we are now tolerating will be overthrown and the names of the greedy charlatans who poison it, will be an insignia of dishonor.

The chemical laboratory has exposed these commercial harpies, and the hope of their continuing these nefarious practices now depends upon the power of the lobby they can throw into our national and various state legislatures. In other words, it depends upon their power to purchase the votes of dishonest law makers, which is another crime and for which the common law says they shall be deprived of their liberty as common criminals. It is in this foul atmosphere and environment that these practices are born, live, thrive and have their being.

If there was nothing else to recommend the use of Uncooked Foods the fact that they offer the public some protection against the most dangerous and soulless class of criminals that ever disgraced the flag of any country, would be quite enough.

The wide circulation of this book has brought to me such a vast number of inquiries about how to select, prepare and combine uncooked foods, so as to counteract, remove the causes of, and if possible cure various disorders of the digestive, secretive and excretive organs, that I feel called upon to say that this work was written as a guide to those in a normal state of health who wished to improve their physical condition and get the highest degree of animal energy from their food.

It was impossible to lay out combinations of food that would effect cures by removing causes, without _those causes being known_.

In order to intelligently answer these inquiries, I have prepared a “Question Form” or diagnosis blank, which I will send on application, and when properly filled out and returned to me, I will give my diagnosis of the conditions without charge.

The great number of inquiries and orders that have come to me for certain kinds and combinations of food since the publication of this work has led me into the pure or natural, food manufacturing business, which was not anticipated in the beginning.

Information concerning these products will be courteously given to all inquirers.

EUGENE CHRISTIAN,
306 W. 79th Street,
New York.

INDEX.

PAGE
A

Almonds, Blanching, 169

Almond Cream, Apple, 214

Almond Custard, 186

Ambrosia, 85

Anchovy Salad, 182

Anchovy Sandwich, 168

Apples, 189

Apple Almond Cream, 214

Apple and Egg Cream, 214

Apples with Olive Oil, 188

Apples with Raisins, 194

Apple-Cress Salad, 176

Apple Frost, 188

Apple Muxit, Peach and, 184

Apple and Nut Sandwich, 167

Apple and Orange Salad, 174

Apple Salad, 175

Apple Snow, 188, 204

Apricots and Peaches, 194

Artichoke Salad, 179

As a Remedy, 43

Asparagus Salad, 176

Assorted Salad, 179

B

Banana Salad, 173

Banana Creams, 214

Bananas and Cream, 185

Banana, Orange and (Jelly), 206

Banquets, Suggestions, 229

Banquets, Menus, 230

Bavarian Cream, 213

Baskets, Orange, 191

Bean or Pea Soup, 149

Beef, Chipped, in Cream, 158

Beef, Sandwich, Raw, 168

Beef, Sandwich, Chipped, 168

Beefsteak à la Tartar, 157

Begin, How to, 139

Berries, Table, Fruits and, 138

Blackberry Sauce, 209

Blanching Almonds, 169

Bread, Fermentation, 103

Bread, Unfired, 165

Butter, Date and Nut, 186

Butter, Fig, 185