Sometimes the water is not pure, and people are made sick and die.

The adulteration of milk or any other food is a very wicked practice.
~9.~ Butter is sometimes made almost wholly from lard or tallow.

This is called _oleomargarine_ or _butterine_.

If the lard or tallow is from diseased animals, the false butter made from it may cause disease.
~10.~ A great deal of the sugar and syrups which we buy is made from corn by a curious process, which changes the starch of the corn into sugar.

Sugar which has been made in this way is not so sweet as cane sugar, and is not healthful.
~11.