Show thy meat costs more than vegetables meat is a manufactured product for which a large amount of raw material ia required the manufacture of meat ia a process of transforming the vegetable protein fats and carbohydrates of grass and grain into the animal protein and fat of beef pork and mutton the same principle applies in the production of milk eggs and other animal foods in tha most economical feeding of animals it takes a number of pounds of hay or corn to make a pound of beef or pork in other words let the farmer maka animal protein and fat from vegetable materials in the bes tway he can and still he must consume a large quantity of soil product to produce a email amount of animal food hence animal foods are costlier than vegetable this is the simple explanation of the fact chatin most parts of the world meat ia the food of only the well to do while the poor live almost entirety on vegetable food thus ordinary people in europe eat little meat and in india and china they have none at all it ia hard enough for them to get the nutriment they need in vegetable forms meata they cannot afford professor atwater in century |