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Excerpt from Pure Foods: Their Adulteration, Nutritive Value, and Cost
The steel for our bridges and buildings is bought and sold on the chemist's certificate of its composition to the thousandths of per cent. Foods are manufactured and sold on flavor and appearance, utterly regardless Of composition or food value. The coal for our engines must be tested and analyzed, but the far more precious human organism is loaded with a heterogeneous mixture of fuel of unknown composi tion. We should not be surprised at low efficiency, inability to work, sickness, even the premature death of an organism which is given so little intelligent care. When an intelligent, well-informed public demands analyzed, tested foods, they will be better served by the food producer, manufacturer, and salesman; and if such food is consumed in the physio logically proper quantity and variety, there will be far less inefficiency, sickness, and mortality.
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