East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-08-11
AMERICANS AHEAD
OF THE ENGLISH
IN MEAT EATING
In Fact Yankees Are Champions
of World in This Particular
Line of EndeavOr.

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-.<
. Americans are the biggest meat 4
. eaters in the world. They beat 4
D Johnny Bull, with all his le- 4
. gends about the beef of old 4
. England. Moreover they eat 4
. more beef per capita than the 4
= British do.
. Figures for meat-eating in 4
. 1909, just made public by the 4
= Bureau of Animal Industry, of 4
. the Department of Agriculture,
. show that the per capita con-
. sumption of meat for that year
= in the United States, was 1922
. pounds, divided as follows.
= (fractions omitted): beef so
= pounds; veal. 7; pork, 81; NUT
= ton and lamb, 9; goat meat .13. I
= Over in England, where they
= boast about good old roast beef, I
. the per capita for that period Is I
= proportion of beef in the total I
= eaten by the American is exact !
= ly the same for the Britishier
= AZ per cent. Inhabitants of
= the tight little isle" make up :
= their total by eating 26 pounds
= of mutton a year. as against the
. Americans 6 pounds.
= The Spanish are the smallest
. meat eaters, their per capita
= consumption being only 40
= pounds. Germany's is 113
. pounds. In both Germany and
= France pork Is the favorite
. meat.
I'm view of the growing scar
= city and high prices of cattle
. and swine and their products in
. our markets in recent times, it
. is we'll to call attention to the
. comparatively insignificant part
played by the bovine species in
. our meat dietry," the Bureau
= declares. "It may be seen that
= we consume only pounds of
q mutton and lamb per head a
y year, which Is barely per cent
y of the total meat supply. When
. we compare this small consump-
. ton of mutton with that of
= England, a very striking con-
. trast is presented.
Our small consumption no
= doubt is mainly attributable to
. the exceedingly cheap and alb
. undant supplies of beef and
. pork which have prevailed in
. former years, thus rending 1t
a 90
= for meat. But the day of cheap
. meat is past and the present
= market prices OF food animals
= point to the fact that it Is be-
= coming more and more impera-
= tive that every available course
. of our meat supply should be
. carefully developed. Hence the
. necessity for more sheep farm
q ing.
= 1T is undeniable that the
= sheep species, both in the lamb
= stage and when older furnishes
= meat of most excellent quality
. when the animals are suited for
= this purpose. Therefore the
. present seems to be an oppor-
. tune time for stockmen to pay
= more attention to the raising
. of sheep for meat production.
. Finally, it would be in the
. interest of economy for the peo-
= pie generally to cultivate a
. greater taste Or mutton and
. lamb. especially the smaller
= families who require joints of a
| . size tina cannot usually be sup
= piled from the larger beef ami
= mails. A more insistent demand
= on the part of the public for
= mutton and lamb of good quail
= ity would no doubt soon lead to
= an increase of breeding and
= feeding operations, besides re-
= lieving somewhat the present
= heavy demand for beef and pork
. in the face of short supply"
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