p. 199 | The Pork Question

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 7, 1870

The Pork Question

☞ Will the public ever be led to take the true view of the pork question? The following looks hopeful:—

“There is something radically wrong in the management of swine, resulting yearly in the loss of millions of young pigs and hogs, or else the genus Sus is an unhealthy and unwholesome animal, and therefore unfit for human food. One or the other of these conclusions seems to be forced upon the common sense and sound judgment of the observer. The mortality among young pigs, for which the butcher has no responsibility, is nearly if not quite proportionate to that of infants of the human species, and aggregates millions of individuals yearly.”

This is from the report of the Agricultural Bureau, of Washington, on the subject of domestic animals. That the least suspicion should be for a moment admitted in such a document that “the genus Sus is an unhealthy and unwholesome animal, and therefore unfit for human food,” is evidence that the path of progress is not yet entirely hedged up. Reformers may still take courage.