The European War and the Meat Market
THE Wall Street Journal says: “When the war closes, the demand for meat will be world-wide. Whence can it be filled? Increase of South American sources, and the development of new supplying countries, will take time. Millions of men hitherto unused to meat diet will have acquired the meat habit. Population grows. The future of meat supplies will be one of the greatest problems after the war.” Doubtless on the part of many there will be an increased demand for meat. But on the other hand, there are a rapidly increasing number of people who have learned from experience and observation that the human family is better nourished without meat than with it; and while, as suggested by the Journal, the European war is teaching many people to use meat who heretofore had not eaten it, yet there are many others who are getting the lesson, from this war, that meat is not necessary. The use of meat is one of the most unscientific and useless habits in which the human family can indulge. The ox and the sheep feed on vegetation; and then the meat eater, in eating their flesh, has to take secondhand food. It is far better for the human family to learn how to live from the vegetable kingdom. It takes a little training to teach one to nourish the system properly with fruits, grains, and vegetables; but once it is learned, the individual is far better off, as thousands of persons can testify.