| Show A horseflesh suggestion if a german view of the case is to prevail in civilized countries there will not dot be a falling off in the demand for horses merely because the bicycle and od team steam and electric motors are crowding the animal out of much of the field it bus bag occupied so ee long this view la is that the horse makes better and beef than the ox I 1 in n discus log the proposition tho th Frankf frankart rt J journal points out that the abe horse to ii the cleanliest clean liest of all domestic anibale ani Rui male mall it will not oat eat anything but good healthy food or drink anything but pare water and that it would rather starve than swill the rotten stuff often given to pigs and cattle and the paper quoted from declares that it to la nothing but prejudice adice that prevents us lafrom from eating hores flech our frankfort further asserts that the nations of europe have suffered enormous loss by this pro prohibition bibi of horseflesh that especially from the humanitarian point of view the results are most deplorable and that millions of people are forced to live jive on potatoes and similar food wanting in nutritive qualities while millions of pounds of the ibe very best beat meat are wasted it claims horseflesh is the most bing of all ail meats ana its tante is hardly to be distinguished from that of beet beef that the flesh of a horse led fed on oats has a smell similar to goose gooseflesh flesh the fat is preferable to lard above all ita it should bould be remembered that no flesh is so healthy as that of a horse and similar diseases are unknown ja horses horsep tuberculosis very common in cattle is very rare in i horses J J this argument may be all very good and very true from one standpoint yet there will bo be a great many people who insist on fancying that the grain potatoes and similar eimil cir food alleged to be wanting in nutritive qualities 11 1 yet which goes to build up and sustain the noble equine is just as good when taken into mand man ao digestive apparatus originally as when car carried there after the process of being converted into horseflesh As to the freedom of horses from certain discuses that also to is true yet yen when all the facts are considered there arises in the mind visions of glanders etc that may turn the heartiest stomach against the article Horae meat way may be all vety well for those who like it but tb the human family has not dot been mistaken all the cont centuries urles la in thinking that chete there is other animal flesh fifth at least equally as suitable for food |
