Autointoxication, or, intestinal toxemia / by J. H. Kellogg.

  • Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943.
Date:
1919
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Credit: Autointoxication, or, intestinal toxemia / by J. H. Kellogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ounce. In the case of hamburger steak it was found that more than half the samples offered in the market contained 30,000,000 bacteria to the ounce or more. Marxer took the ground that meats contain¬ ing as many as 30,000,000 bacteria to the ounce should be condemned as unfit for food. This would, of course, rule out such meats as ham¬ burger steak, prime meats and most game. It was argued most consistently that it is unreason¬ able to condemn milk that contains 6,000,000 bacteria to the ounce and not condemn meats that contain five times as many bacteria. Such action appears still more inconsistent and in¬ defensible when the fact is considered that “meat bacteria” are for the most part putrefactive or¬ ganisms, poison producers, capable of producing infection and disease, whereas the bacteria of milk are almost altogether harmless, lactic acid¬ forming, or so-called “buttermilk germs.” Nothing could be more absurd from a scien¬ tific standpoint than to take great pains to secure a clean milk supply, such as certified milk with a maximum bacteria count of 300,000 butter¬ milk bacteria per ounce, and then swallow along with it meat containing from a hundred to a thousand times as many germs and bacteria of a most pernicious and loathsome kind. Before another half century has passed, we shall have become sufficiently civilized to reject from our tables things that are only proper food for hyenas and turkey buzzards. According to Ostertag, School found in a steak that had been lying for two days so many