Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-28
FISH FOR FOOD.

The April number of Hunts Merchants
Magazine contains excellent article on the
"Fisheries of the United States" from which
we select the following extract on the use of Fish
for food:
More fish must be eaten in our country We are
growing fast and with the rapid MULTIPLICATION ofmonhs
additional substance will be needed to fill them More
fsh should be called for by the mouths, as well as
more beef corn and potatoes But, apart from the pro
spect otncreased numbers the market home is not as
large with the population and present ccumstan
ces as 1t should be. The class to which we aude are Ia
borers in cities and These people are great
consumers OF meat principally beef and generally fancy
that such substantial food is necessary 70 snsta;n y ~
their hard labor. But the idea is faacous. Continual
use OF stimulating food is injurious the system and es
peea IN the summer season, when meat is any state
not particularly wholesome, and when animals are known
to be peculiarly liable to humor and disease. 1t not to
be wondered that where flesh is considerable article
OF tood at this season, those malignant diseases called
summer complaints should be especially prevalent.
Light food IS required In weather and if men do
not III that force themselves the use of stmua
ting vands they will easily adapt themselves to LIGHT snb
stances But certain their health will be better at all
seasons by varying their Diet substituting partially wea
ker food for the uniformly strong to which they are so de-
voted And by usage will be Just as well satisfied
In this way as the other great number of laboring
men, OF course, will deny the correctness of our arp
not fail to acknowledge its validity We refer to the aop
ted citizens natives OF Ireland, England France Germa.
ny, &c, who among the nveterate beef
eaters of the country but who the old countries were
necesstated to much weaker Diet and whocan remem.
Der that when meat rarity them they were just
as well able provided they had other food to sus
tain hard labor. There other to recommend
the propose; that vicious taste which con
continually kind of food Taste is on]v nro-
perry cultivated by the of variety of kinds and the
pleasure arising from taste thus exercised is much great
e than that resulting from perpetual stimulus The
change Is again recommended by economy. Meat is al
ready dear article of food and with present rate of
increase in population and continuance of the present
beefconsuming rage, the be and more en-
hanced the certain tendency of this circumstance
must be sensible any. The remedy Of course is in
that substitution partial entire which eventually
happen of sheer necessity if choice delayed of some
other food We hope with the spread of intelligence SO
rapidly increasing to mechanics artisans and la
borers generally correcting the abuses in their modes of
living which they have long been subject to- and ad
vice on which they have long dsregaded In the case
OF their food would recommend them all the use of
fish in lieu OF at least hafof their Good qualities
OF dried or picked fish, properly prepared with the ac
compartments Of the ordinary dinner vegetables will not
venture to say be long liable the charge of
proficiency ofnutrtive power For breakfast too
broiled fish is at any time better adapted than beef
steak however tender and however pressing the invita-
lions it conveys through the oactories and for tea
striped dried pollock is in all respects preferable to the
daintest bits of smoked beef