A Meat Famine by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 41.

A Meat Famine.

By Editor

Our News columns announce a meat famine in Germany, so that horses, dogs, cats, etc., are sold readily for the slaughter-house and the fragrant sausage. We frequently see accounts given of some poor family, and it is pathetically stated that the family has had no meat for weeks or months. Well, what of it?—Simply this; meat is not needed. There are many families the members of which are doing hard work in the spheres of brain and brawn who have not for years eaten meat. And they will all contend that they have better health. Why should the dog and the cat and the noble horse be forced to pay tribute to man's merciless maw?