The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-12-02
Herse Meat is Healthful.

Paris and Vienna cheap restaurantsI
substitute horse meat for other kindsiE
of butchers meat, as matter ofsii
course. Hitherto even in Paris, wherc5
the advantages of horse meat iIs AL
regular item on bills of fare have beenkl
known ever since the seige of PlrisN
restaurants hesitate to publish the
fact that they are serving it to tbet3aI
customers, for fear OF the popula1
prejudice. Yet just as oleomargain&
is infinitely better than genuine butter
of poor quality, so ordinary horsd
meat is better for health and favo4.3
than meat from cattle sold for the uselH|
of the poorer classes. |
The poorer people abroad learn to
live largely without meat. AdriyeM
on London omnibus, who seemed to63
be man of intelligence and thrift, 8
told the writer that he could afford 3
meat only once or twice a week. The 4
poorer classes in Berlin and Vienna
are forced by the high prices to go|
without meat. In Paris the custom
of using horse meat has made itpossa
sible for all the poorer classes who 9
have to do heavy labor to obtain a
sufficient amount Of nourishing animal
food. ~;
Horses meat differs from beef in d
being slightly coarser in graiE and 8
having a slightly rich flavor. ns
quality naturally depends on the age Y
of the beast. AS u rule, even though
it may be tougher, the meat is FAR
safer to eat than beef. While the +
herds of cattle each year are prodtIc.
ing among themselves more tub6Ta au.
lous infection, horses have, little q
chance to communicate tuber.luloliis
or any other disease to one anoths.T,
because they are seldom kept lloselyS
together, The diet Of horses ft,fthssm
for food purposes even more than COWS, IS
and infinitely mose than swine pr
poultry.
The business of slaughteriDg liorses
for their meat is undoubtedly on tie
increase in the UniGed States becaul,e &
large market has opened in Eurolte
for horse meat, especially when it, ss
canned. The Germans are eatiag itfl,
though uuconsciously, in the formaf &
sausage. -
An unknown amoant> comes back to 8
America as canned meat, and NOT I'M
probably forms a staple item Of dict
in all public or private institutions
where feeding by contract is carried
on. That this industry will rapidly
increase is certain from the fact that
horses are becoming cheaper and3more
abundant. The farmers out west can
better afford to feed horses with their
grain if they can sell the horses for
their meat.
The result will be that ifH horses
come largely into the market as food
product the younger horses will be-
killed off before they are two yearIl a
old to save the expense of longer feed s.:
ing them. This will do away with the &
last real reason against the use of &
horse meat-that only old and feeble E
horses are used.
A great gain will be made inspre-
venting the constant production OF
lame or feeble horses by drivers Just 81
as soon al horse becomes a little s.
past his best strength and speed the
owners will sell them off to butchers,
just as ordinary COWS and oxen.are 5
sold. The horse for driving ald IS
teaming Will be then much finer
animal through genuine survival OF s. s.
the fttest." 3
The business troubles in the United b
States and the increasing number of
men without employment are empha- #
sizing the fact that every possible
factor must be utilized to make living
cheaper and better for the poorer
classes. Meat.fed labor cannot CONF
pete with labor fed on rice or maccaroni.
But meat-fed labor accomplishes betters.
work.
Few people realize how rigidly the S
old Mosaic laws, largely discarded,
even among Jews, holds among the
people at large. On account otdis- q
tinctions made by the laws ofMoses
between animals clean and unclean, g
many animals, on account Of some! I; {;
peculiar arrangement of their feet, e
have been denied to the use of man
kind for food. The one exception is M
pork, which is perhaps the most unit s
for food of all meat on account of the b
filthy habits and feeding of most
swine. ss5s
: Orientals decline to eat camel meat, Is
though this also is finding its way to E
Paris in larger amounts every year.
Many kinds Of wild animals and birds 3
are disliked from some similar preJu- s
dice. Carnivorous animals must all y
ways be discarded because of their
fondness for carrion. Horses, how-
ever, are the daintiest eaters of the
entire animal kingdom.
There was time when horses we're Z
so closely associs4e ed with man in all
work and progres. lat simple affection Il
for a horse rendered the idea OF Il
butchering him repugnant But now +:
the era Of the horse has passed. The, s
bicycle has replaced the saddle horse, #
the motor wagon the bugss:: and stage, Il
and the lack of room in city life has
made a horse as a pet no Logger prac-.1
ticable. That horses will be extermi- as
mated if used for butchers meat is no
more possible than that cattle or sheep
will be. And the future breeds of 7
horses in America, fostered by the 4;
continuous killing off Of all bat the q.
strongest and most beautiful, will be
highly improved.-Ne,c York Press.