The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-06-07
Battle Creek sanitarium Head, Long a
Meatless Advocate, Supports Wheat
Conservation Program Of
Government.
"There Is Nothing At All In Wheat
Bread That We Cannot Get From
Other Foods" He Says.

ulet IOr nail century ana thousands
Of converts have been won to this plan
through regular visits to the SAM
tarium. OF course wheat -four has
been served to guests, but now that
the soldiers and our Allies require
wheat DR.. j. II. Kellogg, the distin-
guished head of the Sanitarium, says
wheat can be dispensed with as con-
veniently as meat. Wheatless days
In America are just beginning, in the
judgment of DR.. Kellogg. Like the
liquor question the meat situation is
fast becoming an economic one. The
people put an official end to the liquor
traffic for economic reasons; they
could not afford to allow the product to
be manufactured. 1t is the same with
meat; it is too expensive and will be
prohibited by fundamental law, in the
opinion of DR.. Kellogg. or course
wheat is essential as a body builder,
but DR.. Kellogg says the military au-
thorities are emphasizing its import
ance as a war ration.
There is no necessity for eating
out it very we'll as long as we have a
general assortment of miscellaneous
foods" says DR.. Kellogg. There is
nothing at all in wheat bread that we
cannot get from other foods. / haven't
averaged two slices of wheat bread a
week for years. We can get from 9TH
er foodstuffs, including other cereals,
everything we require.
THE official wiping out of wheat
md meat is no hardship whatever from
the point of health, economy or any
thing else. The people of Italy live
largely on cornmeal and the people Of
South America and Mexico live almost
entirely on corn and beans, but they
eat nuts, cocoanuts and the avocado
and other fruits that contain complete
proteins.
Man Not a Meat Eater BY Nature.
1.-THE Catholic Church has for GEN.
turtles maintained meatless Friday
and it has been recognized by sanitary
authorities that this Friday fast of the
Catholic Church as well as the fast
during Lenten season, is very by
genie and wholesome measure and
conducive to health.
For more than forty years, l have
been advocating a non-fiesh diet. More
than one hundred thousand patients
who have visited the Battle Creek
Sanitarium, have tested this dietary
while here and many thousands of
them have been 80 we'll pleased that
they have continued to discard flesh
foods after going home. / have watch
ed carefully for any possible ill-effects
from the meatless diet, but have never
observed any indications of an injury
No one has suffered for lack Of meat
AS a matter of fact, the meatless diet
is the biologic diet, because man be-
longs to the class of animals known
as primates including the orang, the
chimpanzee, the gorilla and man. All
of these primates with the exception
of man, adhere to the meatless diet
Meat-eating is a cultivated habit. An
finals that are natural meat eaters are
also natural killers. When a young
lion sees a rabbit for the first time II
doesn't have to be taught to kill the
rabbit and eat it, but does so without
any instruction. You cannot imagine
such a thing as a young child killing
an animal and eating 1t. However
give it an apple and II will lay hold
of it and eat It, 1t is entirely contrary
to the nature of man to STAY and eat
1t is an acquired habit and Is unbio
logic.
Waste VIII stop Meat Production.
"One Of the great advantages of this
meatless day, that / do not think the
Government itself fully appreciates. is
the fact that every time you save three
pounds of meat you save one hundred
pounds Of food, for 1t takes one hun
bred pounds Of food fed to a steer to
make three pounds of food in the form
of beefsteak. Experiments made in
the Ontario Agricultural Station
by Prof. Jordan, are quoted by
Dean Henry, head OF the Agricultural
Department of Wisconsin University
who in a book on Feeds and Feeding,
gives table showing the amount OF
dry digestible foodstuffs required by
an animal to produce given quantity
of dry digestible flesh. The figures
show that one hundred pounds OF dry
food will produce 2.6 pounds of NUT
ton or 2.S pounds Of beef, pounds
of eggs or chicken and Is pounds Of
milk. So that the COW is the most
economical food converter and the
steer the least economical. 1t takes
four thousand pounds Of milk, as
shown by Jordan's experiments, and
six thousand pounds OF concentrated
foodstuffs, like cottonseed meal and
corn, chiefly corn, to raise q three
year-old steer and bring 1t to the per
iod of fattening and slaughtering.
Live Stock Population Decreasing.
"Our population is increasing rapid
" while the livestock Dopnlation Il