Ninety-two point four per cent of juvenile delinquents have eaten tomatoes.Eighty-seven point one per cent of the adult criminals in penitentiaries throughout
the United States have eaten tomatoes.
Informers reliably inform that of all known American Communists ninety-two point
three percent have eaten tomatoes.
Eighty-four per cent of all people killed in automobile accidents during the year
2004 had eaten tomatoes.
Those who object to singling out specific groups for statistical proofs require
measurements within in the total. Of those people born before the year 1850,
regardless of race, color, creed or caste, and known to have eaten tomatoes,
there has been one hundred per cent mortality!
In spite of their dread addiction, a few tomato eaters born between 1850
and 1900 still manage to survive, but the clinical picture is poor-their
bones are brittle, their movements feeble, their skin seamed and wrinkled,
their eyesight failing, hair falling, and frequently they have lost all their
teeth.
Those born between 1900 and 1950 number somewhat more survivors,
but the overt signs of the addiction's dread effects differ not in kind but
only in degree of deterioration. Prognostication is not hopeful.
Exhaustive experiment shows that when tomatoes are withheld from an
addict, invariably his cravings will cause him to turn to substitutes-such
as oranges, or steak and potatoes. If both tomatoes and all substitutes are
persistently withheld-death invariably results within a short time!
The skeptic of apocryphal statistics, or the stubborn nonconformist who
will not accept the clearly proved conclusions of others may conduct his
own experiment.
Obtain two dozen tomatoes-they may actually be purchased within a block
of some high schools, or discovered growing in a respected neighbor's
back yard! - crush them to a pulp in exactly the state they would have if
introduced into the stomach, pour the vile juice into a bowl, and place a
goldfish therein. Within minutes the goldfish will be dead!
Those who argue that what affects a goldfish might not apply to a human
being may, at their own choice, wish to conduct a direct experiment by
fully immersing a live human head* into the mixture for a full five minutes.