Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-03
H CONSUMPTION
OF MEAT

tGS ~
per capita in the United States
since 1900. Most of this loss has
been sustained by the producers
Of beef. AS to the cause of this
decrease in the consumption OF
beef various explanations have been
made. We believe it is due to a
variety of causes. One was the
high price of beef during the war,
and another cause lay in the hard
times and unemployment that
followed the war. A. third cause,
and perhaps the most powerful one
of ali, lies in a persistent propa-
sanda that has been going on for
years against she use of meat as a
food. We do not refer particularly
to the vegetarian preachers These
we have had with us for more than
three thousand years. 1t has even
been a religious doctrine in some
countries during that time. We
refer more particularly to a prop
uganda that has had its source in
economics. It is a fact that IN
MANY of our schools and colleges
supported in part by tax money
raised from producers of meat, the
young people are taught that cheap
err substitutes for meat can be found
with benefit to health as well as
purse, and that so many pounds OF
some other food containing nitro
gen is the food equivalent OF a
pound of beef and costs less. The
Country Gentleman of July l., 1922,
takes note of this false ~propagan-
da against meat when it says:
ut is time to stop this practice
of making meat a target for abuse
and Misrepresentation. The plan
of packers and livestock producers
to unite in a campaign to re-estao-
lish meat in the public esteem is
both timely and sensible.
"For years patent medicine fax
ers, health faddists, reckless
theorists and other s%preaders of
dietary hokum have run rampant l
their attacks on meat. And pro-
ducers of other foods have sought
to get a larger hold on the pop
ular appetite by running down
meat. So-called meat substitutes
galore have been foisted on the
gullible consumer. And in putting
all this over a lot of pure fiction
has been uttered about meat.
"The meat producers have allow
ed this sniping warfare to go on
until meat has been undermined
in the popular estimation; SO much
so that the annual per capita con-
sumption of meat in this country
has fallen off nearly thirty pounds
since 1900. Most of this loss has
been sustained by the beef pro-
ducers. A great staple farm in
dustry has been done a grave IN
jury.
"The public should be told the
truth about meat, particularly beet
And the truth is that meat is ar
essential and thoroughly healthful
part of the white mans diet. II
has been the foremost food of the
big-boned, strong-bodied and Wig
prot races that have written the
history of the modern world. The
pioneer did not subdus this country
on a diet of meat substitutes, MOI
did the Englishman put a third OF
the world under the sway of his
institutions on a diet of vegetable
stews or nut outlets. For the other
side Of the picture look to the Hin
du and the Chinaman.
But after all, what better argu
ment for meat is there than {
thick steak, done TO that pertec'
turn which brings out little splash
es of the rich juice; or mayfair
smothered with onions or garnishet
with Creole sauce? A substitute
for that? Hardly! Nor is there
any for a big, juicy roast, flanket
on each side by we'll Drowned pc
tatocs, and with a tureen OF grav.
handy. When a man is hungry NJ
wants something that sticks to hi
ribs. And meat does that bette
tran anything that the human rae
has found in several million year
of pretty ardent searching. Mea
is a mans food"
DR.. Woods Hutchinson, a wei
known medical writer and healtl
authority, in a recent article ii
Golfers Weekly says:
Man cannot live by bread alone
s. The modern health coun
sci of Polonius is not Put none,
in thy purse but Put butter on tn,
bread and put it on thick.
aThs troons that ate-the mos