The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-12
STRETCHING ISSUE ON cow
Health Commissioners of Chicago Says
t Animal Not Created by God for
Human Beings.

Dairying has acquired such wide
prominence and dairy products are
being used by such very large per-
centage of human beings in this coun-
try that great pains are being taken
to make the products as pure and
healthful as they can be. The nation
and the states are combining their eff
forts to teach and enforce dairy sani-
tatfon where the products are sold for
human consumption, says writer in
an exchange. Almost all dairymen
are rapidly falling into the line of the
pure food idea. They are finding that
it pays to put out clean and pure
product, and the cleaner and more
pure it can be made the larger the
profit there is in keeping cows.
That milk and butter are the most
wholesome and nutritious foods that
human beings can eat needs no veri-
fcation. Also, that these products
state is a well-known fact to ALL
However, there is no valid reason why
any one should use milk or butter
that is not fully UP to the high stand
ard,e for people in all sections of the
country have both the protection of
the law and access to scientific liter
ature to inform them as to what is
good and what is bad.
In spite of what people know of
the high food value of dairy products,
producers and the present advanced
methods of keeping and handling
them in a clean and pure manner,
Doctor Evans of Chicago is quoted as
saying: God did not make COWS
for human beings. The natural rea-
son for the production of cows milk
is to furnish nourishment for the calf,
and before man took hand in the
matter a COW gave only sufficient milk
for the use of her young.
BY means of much feeding and
much milking, the COW has been
forced by man to gradually increase
her supply of milk that it might be
used for human needs. She now gives.
an unnatural amount, and this for
cling process has lowered her power
to resist diseases. The result is that
the modern mich COW is peculiarly
susceptible to disease, especially tu-
berculosis."
What Doctor Evans says about the
biology and modern development of
the mich COW is partly true, but we
are not so sure that she is more sus-
ceptible to disease than the scrub
stock or wild animals, for wild ami
mails are swept away by troubles like
flies and there is much scientific evil
dence that inferior live stock is really
weaker physically and more subject
to diseases than high-bred stock In
modern breeding and selection only
the best and strongest is chosen to
produce young, hence their high pow
er of resistance to disease Cows in
back ages had their ills as well as the
cows of today, only there was no dairy
inspection then.
Some people always talk about the
world going to the bad. They are
afraid to eat food of modern making
when If they would stop to reason,
they would know that the food now is
far better than it was a generation
ago.
The doctor assumes a questionable
position when he states that the Gre
ator did not make COWS to give milk
for human food. He forgets the sa-
cred statement that the promised land
flows with milk and honey. and that
man was to have domination over the
beasts in the field.
If we are to draw a line on the
cow for producing milk for human
use, we might just as well draw line
on the hen for producing eggs for
food. The breeding and developing of
the animals have been similar. For
the same reason we should reject the
sheep, steer, and hog for meat. In
fact, we must all turn vegetarian and
feed our infants, children and old
people strawberries, onions and pota-
toes, instead of milk, and spread cot
toline on our bread instead of butter