Most diseases of the human body are caused by auto-intoxication or self-poisoning. The flesh of animals increases the burden of the organs of elimination and overloads the system with animal waste matter and poisons. Chemical analysis has proved that uric acid and other uremic poisons contained in the animal body are almost identical to caffeine, nicotine, the poisonous stimulating principles of coffee, tea, and tobacco.

This explains why meat stimulates the animal passions and creates a craving for liquor, tobacco, and other stronger stimulants. Excessive uric acid resulting from meat-eating also causes diseases such as rheumatism, Bright