Fermented Beverages: Their Effects on Mankind

by J. Howard Moore, John Howard Moore

Excerpt from Fermented Beverages: Their Effects on Mankind

The Report testifies then that alcohol is a food within the definition laid down, and it is obvious that the definition is in fact much wider than the Report explicitly allows. The Committee concedes that if anyone chooses to maintain that the word 'food should be restricted to substances included in Classes 1 and 2 he is perfectly entitled to do so. He would then be justified in stating that alcohol is not a food, provided that he made perfectly clear the limited sense in which he was using the word (page But it is difficult to imagine, especially in view of what is pointed out above, that anyone will attempt to maintain such a position. If the facts underlying the Committee's conclusions are accepted the food value of alcohol is no longer in dispute. That may be no addition to popular knowledge, but it is at any rate a sufficient vindication of alcohol on one of the several charges made against it by the prohibitionists.

70 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1910

About the author

John Howard Moore was an American zoologist, philosopher, educator and socialist. He authored several articles, books, essays and pamphlets on ethics, vegetarianism, humanitarianism and education.