Evening journal., 1896-12-30
EATING HORSE MEAT.
A PRACTICE THAT IS GROWING AND IS
WELL SUPPORTED.


substitute horse meat for other kinds Of
butchers meat, as a matter of course.
Hitherto even in Paris, where the ad. /
vantages Of horses meat as a regular I
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 10 their customers for fear Of |
the popular prejudice. Yet Just as oleo-
margarine is infinitely better than genu-
inc butter Of poor quality, so ordinary
horse meat is better for health and fla.
vor than meat from cattle sold for the
use of the poorer classes.
The poorer people abroad learn TO live
largely without meat. A driver on a
London omnibus, who seemed to he 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 90 without meat. In Paris
the custom Of using horse meat has made
it possible for all the poorer Glasses who
have to do heavy labor to obtain a suffi
cient amount of nourishing animal food.
Horses meat differs from beef in be-
ing slightly coarser in grain and having
a slightly richer flavor. It's quality
naturally depends on the age of the
benst. As a rule, even though it may be
tougher, the meat is far safer TO eat
than beef. While the herds Of cattle
each year are producing among them
selves more tuberculous infection, horses
have little chance to communicate tu-
berculosis or any other disease 20 one
another. because they are seldom kept
closely together The diet OF horses fits
them for food purposes even more than
cows, and infinitely moro than swine or
poultry.
The business Of slaughtering horses
for their meat is undoubtedly on the in
crease in the United States because a
large market has opened In Europe for
horse meat, especially when it is canned.
The Germans are eating it, though un-
consciously, in the form Of sausage.
An unknown amount comes back TO
America as canned meat. and not i'm
probably forms 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 food prod
net the younger horses will be killed of
before they are years old to Fave 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 prevent
ing tho constant production Of lame c.
feeble horses by drivers. just as soon a.
u horse becomes little past his hes
strength and speed the owEers will sci
! them Off to butchers. just as ordinary
COWS and oxen are sold The horse foi
driving and teaming will be then I
much finer animal through a genuin'
Survival Of the fittest +"
The business troubles in the United
I States and The increasing number o
; men without employment arc emphasiz
Q ing the fact that every possible facto
I must be utilized to make living cheape
and better for the poorer classes. Mea
. fed labor cannot compete with labor fe'
! ON rice or macaroni But meat fed labo
I accomplishes better work.
i Few people realize how rigidly tn
d old Mosaic law, largely discarded eve
among Jews, holds among the people q
large. On account of distinctions mad
by the laws Of Moses between animal
4 clean and unclean many animals, ON aC
n count of some peculiar arrangement {
}. their feet, have been denied to the us
e Of mankind as food. The one exceI
u ton is pork, which is perhaps the mo.
= unfit for food Of all meat on account {
: the filthy habits and feeding of mos
swine.
Orientals decline to eat camel meai
though this also is finding its way
;. Paris in larger amounts every yea
NJ Many kinds Of wild animals and birl
re are disliked from some similar prejV
g dice. Carniyorous animals must a
= ways be discarded because of their fon,
ness for carrion. Horses, however, al
/. the daintiest eaters Of the entire animi
Of kingdom.
There was o time when horses wei
so closely associated with man in c
work and progress that simple affectic
oil for horse rendered the idea Of butcl
AZ ering him repugnant But now the ei
a. of the horse has passed. The bicycle hi
ct replaced the saddle horse, the mot
g wagon the buggy and stage and Il
of lack Of room in city life has made
h. horse Us a pet no longer PRACTICABLE
Is That horses will be exterminated if us'
for butchers meat is no more possib
than that cattle or sheep will be. Al
ed The future breeds of horses in Americ
he fostered by the continuous killing of
as all but the strongest and most beautifu
,s will be highly improved. New Yol
In Press.
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