Charlevoix county herald., 1918-05-10
Battle Creek sanitarlum Head, Long a
Meatless Advocate, Supports Wheat
Conservation Program OF
Government.
sThere Is Nothing At All In Wheat
Bread That We Cannot Get From
Other Foods" He Says.


Hoover's meatless and wheatless days,
the Michigan honor would go to the
Battle Creek Sanitarium without a con-
test or much less, a protest.
The famous Battle Creek health re-
sort has been on a strictly meatless
diet for half a century and 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. Wheatlsss 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; 1t IL too expensive and will be
prohibited by fundamental law, in the
opinion Of DR.. Kellogg. OF course
wheat Is essential as a body builder,
but DR.. Kellogg says the military au-
thorities are emphasizing its import
ance as war ration.
There 10 no necessity for eating
wheat at all. We can get along with
out It very well 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 got from other foods. haven't
averaged two slices Of wheat bread a
week for years. We can get from 9TH
or foodstuffs, including other cereals,
everything we require.
THE Official wiping out of wheat
and meat IL 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 Meat Eater BY Nature.
"The Catholic Church has for CEN
turtles maintained meatless Friday
and 1t has been recognized by sanitary
authorities that this Friday fast Of the
Catholic Church as well as the fast
during Lenten season, Is very n.y.
genie and wholesome measure and
conducive to health.
For more than forty years, I have
been advocating a non-flesh 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 SO well pleased that
they have continued to discard flesh
foods after going home. I 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
imals that are natural meat eaters are
also natural killers. When a young
lion sees a rabbit for the first time 1t
doesn't have to be taught to kill the
rabbit and eat 1t, but does SO without
any instruction. You cannot imagine
such q thing as young child killing
an animal and eating 1t. However,
give II an apple and 1t will lay hold
of 1t and eat 1t. 1t is entirely contrary
to the nature of man to STAY and eat
II 10 an acquired habit and Is unbio-
logic.
Waste VIII Stop Meat Production.
Zone Of the great advantages Of this
meatless day, that I 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
dred pounds of food fed to steer to
mako 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 a given quantity
OF dry digestiblei 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, 8 pounds
of eggs or chicken and Is pounds OF
milk. SO that the COW is the mos,
economical food converter and the
steer the least economical II takes
four thousand pounds Of milk. az
shown by Jordan's experiments, and
six thousand pounds of concentrated
foodstuffs, like cottonseed meal and
corn, chiefly corn, to raise three
year-old steer and bring II to the per
iod OF fattening and slaughtering.