The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-09
CARSINOROLS.
Americans Head the List oc Big Meat
Eaters.
From the Times.DemOcrat.

TFrom the Times.Democrat.
The American people have for years
prided themselves on being the biggest
meat consumers Of the nations Of the
earth. Before we had ever been
thought of, or had thought OF ourselves
as nation, John Bull was, by univer-
sal admission, the beefeater par excel
lence of the world, and for half CEN
tury after the date that he and Brother
Jonathan turned their faces from each
other, Johns meat consuming record
remained unchallenged.
But of more recent years this coun-
try achieved such an unprecedented
degree of material well-being that
American citizens have not only caught
up with their transatlantic cousins,
but have passed them in the quality
and amount Of the comforts of life
which they have been able to afford
themselves. It has been recognized
for twenty years or so that the Amerl-
can people have consumed more AMI
NAL food than the English, citizen for
citizen, although the precise amount
disposed of by either nation has not,
save at a wide approximation, been
known.
Now, however, we know the precise
extent of our carnivorous Indulgence,
as we'll as that of England and of other
European nations; and we have the
sa .isfaction of knowing that we are
easily at the head Of the list. Our con-
sumption of meat annually during the
last ten years has been at the rate Of
12O pounds per annum for every man,
woman and child in the country; or,
in other words, every person in the
United States has consumed One-thlrd
of a pound OF meat per day. Consider
ing the millions of youngsters and OF
female folks, who feed mostly Oh lolli-
pops and pie, and what Alidshipman
Easy used to designate "tlapdoodle," ,"
this daily allowance Of animal food
among the remainder means no little
material for assimilation into Drawn
and muscle.
The Britisher, for all his immemoral
reputation as 4 beef-eater, does not
reach this level by considerable odds.
The average Britisher consumes but
lO5 pounds of meat per annum, which
is full y! per cent below the American
average, although it stands we'll above
German and French and Scandinavian
and Italian and Spanish records, and
| far above the forty-eigEt pounds pei
capita OF Rus.ia-the smallest consump,
ton among the big European nations
But cur satisfaction at knowing that
we are ahead of all other nations Of
Europe in our consumption Of meat
must be dashed . little by the reflection
that we are ourselves -utstripped, fal
away outstripped, in our carnivorous
accomplishments. Mr.. H. \. Hayter
the government statist Of Victoria
Australia, from whose carefully COM
piled statistics the intelligence given
above has been drawn, shows that
while the average Russian consumes
his forty-eight pounds Of meat in the
wear, the Englishman his lO5 pounds
and the American his 120 pounds, the
average Australian gets away with his
o7O pounds-more than twice as much
as the average American.
| It seems at first blushalm0st incredl
bic that every man, woman and chile
in Australia should be able to eat three
quarters of pound Of meat every day
but those who know that meat IS the
principal part OF the Australian 5 tood
and that servantsin that country, Wher
engaging themselves, stipulate for meat
rations at every One o. the three stated
daily meals, will have little trouble IL
understanding how this extraordinary
looking result is arrived at. Had the
Australian meat consumption beer
somewhat more i'll the vicinity of the
American, the amount consumed
might have been regarded as q measure
of the spending power Of the nations
As it is, it Will be regarded more as :
criterion of their carnivor2us iuc!ina
tions.
The interest in connection with the
subject will be as to the effect Of the
consumption on the mortality statistic:
Of the consumers.
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