Show HORSE FLESH AS FOOD or the practice of eating flesh horse flesh is a fashion that has bas for some little time prevailed in France and considerable enthusiasm has been indulged in upon the subject by many leading Parisians The opposition to the use of horse-flesh horse as aa an m article of food was very strong at first and the authorities delayed the giving of the ary ary necee ary license to open a place in Pa Paris Pa- Pa Paris Paris ris fur for its sale notwithstanding the of Health had expressed a fa- fa favorable fa favorable opinion of it Since that time however a great change has taken place There are now three butchers shops in that city at which nothing but flesh horse flesh is sold Millions of pounds of ef this meat have been sold for public consumption and it has been disposed of at a price much below that of beef beef- beef a result which the advocates of hip hip- hip think is a great boon to the poorer classes There are many leading minds in England which have been imbued with the ideas prevailing in France upon this subject and they have taken steps to introduce horse-flesh horse into use as an ar- ar article article ar article of diet It is not long since we read of a horse-flesh horse banquet gotten up in London at which many prominent prominent prominent nent men some one hundred and sixty in number attended The price to each guest was a guinea and a half These persons deemed it necessary to take plan to show that they were not mere theorists enthusiasts or epicures desir desir- desirous desirous desirous ous only to create a new Dew sensation Statisticians declare that in Great Brit Brit- Britain Britain Britain ain there are horses free from dis- dis disease disease dis disease ease and for human food slaughtered annually According to the view of the partakers of the banquet this was food palatable nutritious and cheap too good to be thrown to dogs when animal food was so se dear as to be partially beyond the re reach h of their poor countrymen They thought it a practical practical practical cal question of the highest importance so they got up a dinner not to gratify tire the palates s of a few or to introduce a neW dish into the rich mans man's house but to populate a ne new article of t food t td food d i for ih the poor Horse mesh it is said can san besold be Gold for five fire cents per pound while beef and mutton sell at from sixteen to went twenty twenty four four cents centa per pound and they who ad- ad advocate ad advocate its ita use say that it is i not less leas suc suc- succulent succulent and a appetizing appetising nl than other ani ani- animal animal animal mal food They Tiley have also succeeded in obtaining the declaration of a high medical authority to the effect that horse tea is more nourishing than beef tea They are desirous of making a fa- fa favorable favorable fa favorable impression on the public mind and wish to convince the poorer classes that they have much to gain gain by the cheapening of animal food and the adoption of horse horse flesh flesh as an article to tobe tobe tobe be eaten Whether the example which these gentlemen have set will win be fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed by their poor countrymen re- re remains remains re remains mains to be seen An Englishman is proverbially attached to his roast I beef but in view of the reduced price he may be induced to accept roast horse instead Instead Whatever the flavor of the latter may be it certainly does not sound as well as the former yeta yet a horse horse- horse eater eater would attribute this entirely to prejudice If we had to choose between the horse and the hog we believe that if prejudice could be overcome the decision would be given in favor of the former animal as the most healthy and probably pala pala- palatable palatable table of the two A horse is a clean an animal an- an animal animal imal a hog is not to be compared to it itin itin itin in this respect But if we had our choice we would much prefer dispensing dispensing dispensing sing with both If the cheapness of flesh horse flesh be the recommendation urged for its adoption as an article of food why stop with it Why not aban aban- abandon abandon abandon don all prejudice respecting animals and include the dog as as an animal to be eaten It can caB be raised at little ex- ex expense expense ex expense pense and its flesh can be sold very low n It is also a much cleaner animal than a hog And then if the arguments used by the adv advocates cates of respect lug ing respecting the millions of pounds of animal food which are lost through not eating horses be entitled to any weight they will apply with equal force to dogs The flesh of dogs is said by the Pacific Islanders who are fond of it to be wholesome and nourishing they prefer it to that of every other animal The number of dogs which are yearly killed in Great Britain must be very great If animal food at five cents per pound be bethe bethe bethe the highest consideration and the great desideratum they might as well be economized zed and a dog banquet be pro pro- provided provided provided vided for the nobility and gentry of Great Britain to popularize the food among the poorer classes The reasons ad advanced for eating g horse horse- horseflesh horseflesh horseflesh flesh can be extended much farther a and d to many more animals than their au- au authors authors au authors thors would probably desire But we weare weare weare are decidedly edly of the opinion that this movement will be attended with bad effects to the people who adopt horse horse- horseflesh horseflesh flesh as a food foed Moses was a very wise legislator At least Christendom by its acts have acknowledged him as such Re He was doubtless an equally good phys physiologist We have never yet seen any Jiny reason to doubt the excellence of the rule or law which he gave to Israel Israeli and we firmly believe that the people who are governed by it in the selection of the animals they eat will enjoy much greater physical health and durability and possess a higher moral tone than those who violate it His law was Whatsoever the hoof and is and the cud among the beasts that shall ye eat |