VEGETARIANISM AND DRUNKENNESS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Slit,—Pray allow me to correct a misapprehension about what we vegetarians maintain on the above subject. The vege- tarianism of the great majority of us here includes milk and its products in its list of allowable foods ; and it is that system, if the products of milk are taken in a fresh and not in a par- tially spoiled state, that we maintain is a cure for the taste for excessive indulgence in stimulants. I alluded to this when I said "diluted fresh milk would have a directly contrary effect" to that of the constant drinking of sour buttermilk. You may, to be sure, object in strictness to the term " vege- tarianism " being applied to a -system which includes any animal food whatever ; but ninety-nine out of one hundred of the so-called vegetarians of the world are milk-drinkers as well. They are classed as vegetarians notwithstanding.—I am, Sir, &c.,
[We should define vegetarianism as "a system of diet whichforbids the taking of life," and only smiled at our correspondent's wider description.—ED. Spectator.]
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