Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1918 — Horse Is Healthiest of All Meat-Producing Animals, Barring Sheep [ARTICLE]

Horse Is Healthiest of All Meat-Producing Animals, Barring Sheep

By GEORGE H. GLOVER,

Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Coffin*. Colo.

There have been several horse-meat markets legalized in this country and there will be more. After all that is said for and against eating horae meat we are obliged to admit that the objection is purely esthetic ’ The horse lives upon the cleanest cereals and succulent grasses and will die before he will drink stagnant water. The horse is the healthiest of all food-produdng animals, barring possibly the sheep. The horse is practically immune to tuberculosis, while 9 per cent of hogs and 4 per cent of cattle under federal inspection are condemned as unfit for food. With a mortality from tuberculosis that is decimating the human family, and in this country where less than half of the meat consumed is subject to any sort of inspection, we are facing a problem that must eventually be met by drastic measures. Horse meat is easily digestible, is wholesome and safe. . ' In our large cities the high price of beef, pork and mutton has made their consumption almost prohibitive sos the poor, while pneumonia, tuberculosis and other diseases stalk in the wake of the insufficiently nourished. We eat the cannibal whale and shark, oysters and turtle .with nothing wasted, the brains, livens, lymph glands and intestines of cattle, sheep and hogs. Consistency demands that we do not object to the eating oi horse meat by those who want it, in the interest ot food conservation am winning the war.