Meat-eaters Versus Vegetarians
Meat-eaters Versus Vegetarians.—"After exhaustive experiments upon forty-nine students, professors and physicians," says the New York World, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale, "finds that the non-meat-eaters out-class the meat-eaters in such tests of physical endurance as holding the arms out horizontally against time, deep knee-bending, and goose-step drill. One vegetarian held his arms out more than three hours, while a meat-eating track athlete cried quits in nine minutes." The World throws in some half-questions, yet admits that "prosperous Americans who lead a sedentary life eat far too much of it." The only thing, however, that the World has to present in favor of meat-eating is that it "rouses and sustains the combative instincts." It declares, what is a truth, that "meat makes its eaters quarrelsome," leading its users to fight about trifles, as among American and English boys. Japanese are much more peaceable; yet vegetarian Japan conquered meat-eating Russia. Meat is not needed, and the world would be better off to-day without it.