Facing a Meat Crisis by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 10, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 31.

“Facing a Meat Crisis”

By Editor

THE Wall Street Journal informs us that “Switzerland, the home of kine, . . . is contracting for 15,000 Venezuelan oxen. The French war ministry is about to purchase 100,000 cattle, in addition to recent buying of 30,000 head, and orders for 240,000 tons of refrigerated meats. . . . The large areas of western France are drained [of domestic animals] up to the walls of Paris.”

Before the war both France and Switzerland were exporters of meat; and after reviewing these facts, in connection with others, the Journal states, “Europe is facing a meat crisis.”

To a great many people, this condition may bring perplexity; but we wish to keep before our readers continuously the fact that the flesh of animals is not only one of the least desirable articles of food, but is also one of the least necessary articles. There are other foods for human beings, that are far superior to the flesh of animals. The grains upon which the ox is fattened are more nourishing than the beef that is produced, and they are far less expensive. And once the appetite is educated, the desire for meat is entirely gone, and the individual gets along far better physically, mentally, and spiritually without it than he does with it.

In changing from a meat diet to a vegetarian diet, a person needs to learn how to find the articles of food that are proper to use instead of meat. There is a growing multitude of people who know, from practical experience, that the use of meat is wholly unnecessary.