Charlevoix county herald., 1918-05-10

pound of meat.
diminishing and necessarily SO, be.
cause the great free pastures we used
to have on the prairies of the west,
are being cut up into farms. AS the
population of the country increases we
must economize In foodstuffs, for II
costs SO much more to take food at
second hand In the form OF flesh than
1t does to take It In the form of the
original foodstuffs. For instance, when
II takes one hundred pounds of corn
to make three pounds of beef, you lose
81 pounds of food. The only reason food
Is scarce In this country at the pres.
ent time Is that the cattle and hogs
are eating up our foodstuffs. We raise
three billion bushels of corn a year
and of that, the people of the United
States only eat 10%, the cattle and
hogs eating most Of the rest of It
There are over forty million cattle
in this country besides milk cows and
more than that number of sheep. Vir
chow, the noted anthropologist and
the greatest scientist who lived in the
last century said, The future is with
the vegetarians.' He saw it must be
so, as the world cannot produce
enough surplus food to support the
wasteful methods of the livestock In
dustry indefinitely. Every densely
populated country in the world is prao
tically vegetarian.
Feed 81 Pounds to Get Three.
you have to feed the animal three
pounds of food and 81 pounds of food
more in order to get that three pounds
of food back again. Thus you throw
away 81 pounds of good food in order
to get three pounds of meat. The rea
son is that the steer, needs food fol-
the same reason that man does, tt
keep him warm, to support his life and
activities.
Our people must cultivate the po
tato eating habit. More potatoes ant
less breakfast cereals and bread would
be very great improvement. Cereal.
contain an excess Of acids. The pc
tato furnishes a rich supply of organi,
bases or alkalis which neutralize tn,
acids of the body and keep the bloot
in healthy condition.
Meat will be used less and less II
the future and the important thint
to know is whether or not we can ge
along without 1t. The experiment.
made in recent years by McCollum o.
Wisconsin University and by Mende
of Yale University show that meats
eggs and milk contain certain proteini
that are very valuable for the body
because they are what are known al
complete proteins. They are capabl,
of making perfect tissues. This Il
not true of cereals, not even of wheat
Wheat is better than corn, but non,
of the vegetables contain these com
piete proteins. 1t has been found
however, that certain of these vegeta
BILE foodstuffs do contain complete pro
teins and one of them Is the soy beaI
which plays such a great part In tn,
nutrition OF the Orient. 1t will com,
along In this country very rapidly. An
other Is the peanut, and 1t Is Glso fount
that the almond and nuts generally con
tain perfect proteins. That Is the rea
son why the monkeys. apes, the goI
illas and the chimpanxees are able I,
live on their. fruit and nut diet.
one cuts meats out of the diet, he mus
be sure to put in something else
which will take Its place and furnish
these perfect proteins, which is tn
, real science of dietetics at the presen
time,--to prepare a. bill of far,
which furnishes everything the bod:
requires.
Theu Real Substitute for Wheat.
, Corn with milk added is a perfec
substitute for wheat. II would do nj
, harm IL a-complete embargo shoul,
| be placed on wheat -four all over tn
United States. The people can liu
!, perfectly on corn as long as they hav
milk. eggs. nuts and beans.
There isn't going to be any short
age of corn. The corn we are nov
feeding to our cattle, pigs and sheer
will furnish food for one hundred an,
sixty million people for year. II l.
. the greatest economic waste In thu
country to feed corn to cattle. o
course, beer is made of corn, which l.
an enormous waste also. but the
gest waste of corn in this coun
J In feeding II TO cattle"