Harvest For Hope
Chapter One
Animals to Us
"In the cosmos there are only eaters and the eaten. Ultimately, all
is food."
-HINDU UPANISHADS
There is an old English saying, "Manners Makyth Man." In fact, it is
food that makyth man. For if we discount our basic physiology and
anatomy, and those behaviors inherited through our genes, we truly
are what we eat. We cannot survive without food, although certain
individuals have claimed that we can. In the second half of the
nineteenth century, young fasting girls captured the imagination of
people all over Britain, especially one Sarah Jacob, a
twelve-year-old who confounded doctors by refusing to eat or drink
for two years. She became a tourist attraction, and in the end her
parents agreed that a medical team could keep her under
surveillance. It did not take long for her condition to deteriorate
and soon she was dead. Her father, who had refused to offer her
food, was sentenced along with his wife for manslaughter. It was
never made clear who had been secretly providing her with sustenance
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