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90 Americans Eat Too Much Meat7
Il Is very poor family IN the United
States which does not feel able 20 furnish
the table with some sort OF meat at least
once a day. but the hired labor expects a
dfsh OF meat three times a day for it's
daily food. A farmer who boards his hired
labor Is expected 70 provide at least three
pounds OF bacon a week 10 the hand, IL he
gives ratlons.
In summer or winter meat Is q staple
food product and the consumption OF pork
and bacon in the United States Is simply
enormous Much OF this meat IS hastily
cooked and much OF Il Is eaten when
swimming IN hot grease great many
mix molasses with the grease or gravy
and soak their bread in the mixture on
their plates and pack II In their stomachs.
The American working man is a pro-
nounced meat eater. Flesh OF some sort
must be supplied. You often hear the
Bible quoted about babes and milk, and
strong men and meat.
I have taken pains 70 find out from vari-
Gus writer's what the laboring classes
feed upon in other countries.
In Scotland but little meat Is eaten IL
Is rare dish for a common laborer. The
diet Is composed OF cat meal. bread. milk.
butter. potatoes, tea coffee Meat Is TOO
expensive for everyday use
In ireland potatoes are the STAN OF NE
along With bread. butter, milk, vegetables
and beans.
when potatoes get scarce the Irish emil
grant comes to America TO live
In Spain scarcely any flesh Is consumed
BY the Iaboring classes Bread. fish, fruits
ard vegetables-scarcely any meat at All
In italy. macaroni bread. fuits, lentils.
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feast days.
IN Belgium. black bread. potatoes. vege-
tables and chicory for coffee-seldom
flesh. but sometimes a little salt meat
Switzerland, cheese. milk, coffee, vegeta-
bIes. soup. wine-not often meat
in some parts OF France meat is eaten
but once a year.
they are rich farmers who can afford 20
raise enough cattle for their own table
uses. They have bread and fruit, and
drink sour wine.
sweden uses salt herring. rye bread and
oatmeal. milk and beer. The laoorers
rarely are fed on flesh OF any kind
ENGLAND has pork and roast beef. with
bread. beer, vegetables. tea and cheese
II countries Ike Saxony and Prussia
near the Rhine. the lsborers eat bread
vegetables. tea coffee and cheese, rarely
meat for table use among the poor.
In Russia the wage earners have black
re bread. cabbage. soups. use oil IN va
rious dishes for the table
The European peasants are hard work
ers. long lived people. They outlive the
wealthy. aristocratic classes who can af-
ford 70 eat flesh because money will pro-
cure IL in those countries. The expen-
sfve part OF table supplies Is the meat.
next 20 costly wines. The poor cannot az
ford Il.
Vegetable regimen is highly economical.
and q is claimed by vegetartans 10 be the
material diet OF the husbandman as well
as others Some years ago we were
alarmed about the trichinae which inhab-
IT'S commercial bacon. A great outcry was
raised about the fatal effects OF the little
worm or germ which lodged in meat and
which created disease in the human body
after being taken into the stomach. but
the habit az eating raw meat accounted
for the prevalence Of the disease.
I have the opinion (of course Il is not
q scientific OF learned one). that We should
never eat flesh II any kind that Is not
cooked sufacientls 10 destroy the germs
and germ cells that infest all flesh In fts
natural state.
While rare beef may be thought more
rutricious than the beef which IS boiled
vel broiled or baked in a hot oven. am
satisfied that too much raw flesh is not
good IN the human stomach as constant
diet.
Fowls and fish are no exception TO this
rule. although canvass-back duck Is gen.
orally served with the raw red meat ap-
parent So long as the germ theory Is the
accepted theory OF the world OF science
medical as well as other branches OF
science. the danger OF importing germs
IN the human system should be watched
for and prevented as much as possible.
The Sacred Word tells Us that after
death worms shall destroy our bodies. and
we know that worms do infest and de-
sfroy an animal flesh as soon as the Vita
principle. the life, has passed out Of the
carcass.
The IsraeIItes were allowed 70 eat GER
tain kinds OF flesh. and were forbidden e
use other kinds.
Perhaps the climate OF Palestine was un-
favorable 20 the keeping OF the forbidden
flesh and as research has always devel-
Oped a reason or a cause for Bible au'
thority OF commands. Il is a subject that
even our Country Home" readers would
do well 70 investigate, namely: Do We
eat too much meat?