The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-09
DIET OF THE FUTURE.
Physicians Say Horse Meat Is More
HeaIthfuI Than Pork.

substitute horse meat for other kinds
CT butchers meat, as a matter OF
course. Hitherto even in Paris, where
the advantages of horses meat as d
regular item on bills of fare have been
known ever since the siege of Paris,
restaurants hesitate to publish the
fact that they are serving it to their
customers, for fear of the popular pref
udice. Yet just as oleomargarine is
Infinitely better than genuine butter
of a poor quality, SO ordinary horse
meat is better for health and flavor
than meat from cattle sold for the use
CT the poorer classes.
The poorer people abroad learn to
live largely without meat A driver Oh
q London omnibus, who seemed to be
a man of intelligence and thrift, told
the writer that he could afford meat
only once or twice week. The poorer
classes in Berlin and Vienna are forced
by the high prices to go without meat.
In Paris the custom of using horst:
meat has made 1t possible for all the
poorer classes who have to do heavy
labor to obtain a sufficient amount of
nourishing animal food.
Horses meat differs from beef in
being slightly coarser in grain and hav-
ing slightly richer flavor. It's quality
naturally depends on the age Of the
beast. AS a rule, even though it may
be tougher, the meat is far safer to
cat than beef. While the herds of cat
tie each year are producing among
themselves more tuberculous infection,
horses have little chance to communi-
cate tuberculosis or any other disease
to one another because they are sell
com kept closely together. The diet
of horses fits them for food purposes
even more than COWS, and infinitely
more than swine or poultry
The business of slaughtering horses
for their meat is undoubtedly on the
increase in the United States because
large market has opened in Europe
for horse meat, especially when 1t is
canned. The Germans are eating it.
though unconsciously, in the form OF
sausage.
An unknown amount comes back to
America as canned meat, and not i'm
probably forms a staple item of diet 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 be-
coming cheaper and more abundant
The farms 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 if horses come
largely into the market as a food pro-
duct the younger horses will be killed
off before they are two years old to
save the expense of longer feeding them
This will do away with the last real
reason against the use of horse meat
that only old and feeble horses are
used.
A great gain will be made in pre-
venting the constant production Of lame
or feeble horses by drivers. Just as
soon as horse becomes a little past
his best strength and speed the owners
will sell them off to butchers, just as
ordinary cows and oxen are sold. The
horse for driving and teaming will be
then a much finer animal through a
genuine survival of the fittest." zs
The business troubles in the United
States and the increasing number OF
men without employment are empha-
sizing the fact that every possible fac
tor must be utilized to make living
cheaper and better for the poorer
classes. Meat-fed labor cannot com
pete with labor on rice or macaroni
But meat-fed labor accomplishes better
work.
Few people realize how rigidly the
old Mosaic law, largely discarded even
among Jews, holds among the people al
large. On account of the distinctions
made by the laws of Moses between
animals clean and unclean, many ami
mails on account Of some peculiar ar
rangement Of their feet have been de-
MED to the use of mankind as a feed
The one exception is pork, which is
perhaps the most unfit for food of al
meat on account of the filthy habits
and feeding of most swine.
OrientalS decline to eat camel meat
though this also is finding its way tC
Paris in larger amounts every year
Many kinds of wild animals and birds
are disliked from some similar preju-
dice. Carniverous animals must always
be discarded because of their fondness
for carrion. Horses, however, are the
daintiest eaters Of the entire animal
kingdom.
There was a time when horses were
so closely associated with man in al
work and progress that simple affection
for a horse rendered the idea of butch
ering him repugnant. But now the
era of the horse has passed. The BIZ
cycle has replaced the saddle horse, the
motor wagon the buggy and stage, anG
the lack of room in city life has made
a horse as a pet no longer practicable
That horses will be exterminated II
used for butchers meat is no more
possible than that cattle or sheep will
be. And the future breeds of horses in
America fostered by the continuous
killing off of all but the strongest anc
most beautiful will be highly improved