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The effects of a flesh diet may not be immediately realized; but this is no evidence that it is not harmful. Few can be made to believe that it is the meat they have eaten which has poisoned their blood and caused their suffering. Many die of diseases wholly due to meat eating, while the real cause is not suspected by themselves or by others.

The harmful effects of a flesh diet may be delayed, but meat consumption poisons the blood and causes various diseases. The passage asserts a direct causal link between meat consumption, blood poisoning, and fatal diseases.

The moral evils of a flesh diet are not less marked than are the physical ills. Flesh food is injurious to health, and whatever affects the body has a corresponding effect on the mind and the soul. Think of the cruelty to animals that meat eating involves, and its effect on those who inflict and those who behold it. How it destroys the tenderness with which we should regard these creatures of God!

A flesh diet has negative moral and physical consequences, blunting the tenderness humans should feel toward animals. Contains an explicit empirical claim about bodily effects impacting the mind alongside ethical principles.

The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love and fear and suffer. They use their organs far more faithfully than many human beings use theirs. They manifest sympathy and tenderness toward their companions in suffering. Many animals show an affection for those who have charge of them, far superior to the affection shown by some of the human race. They form attachments for man which are not broken without great suffering to them.

Animals display high levels of intelligence, affection, sympathy, and capacity for suffering. Describes animal behavior, emotional capacity, and intelligence as a narrative and observational statement.