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Summary Of Vindication Of The Natural Diet

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Percey Shelly wrote a Vindication of the Natural Diet in 1813, in this text he explains reasons for not eating meat and what he thinks we should be eating instead. He describes ways that eating meat causes disease, death and madness, he also shows that eating vegetables “natural diet” does not cause such things. Throughout the text Shelley also goes into how crime is an effect of eating meat, that we cannot be sane if we are putting such unnatural things into our bodies. He also states facts of how our bodies were not made to be meat eaters. To end his discussion Shelley tells us why we should be on the “natural diet” and how vegetables can affect us in great ways. As meat eaters, we are only doing harm to ourselves and people around us from the madness. We are going against what is “natural”.

Shelley language indicates a belief that vegetable diets are harmless and cause no madness or disease. He proves this to be true with experiments that’s’ results show that this diet turned all of what could’ve caused disease into good health. He goes on to say that with us consuming all that is natural and no meat that our only cause of death shall be old age, “On a natural system of diet, old age would be our last …show more content…

He explains how most people eat meat and there is so much crime right now, if most people didn’t eat meat he seems to feel that we wouldn’t have any crime. He uses contrast between meat eaters and non-meat eaters, Shelley believes that meat eaters are un-civilized and that non-meat eaters are. If a child was told all that Shelley is suggesting, a child would believe him. Without sophistication this system of a natural diet would be understood and

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