Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1918 — Enormous Meat Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Enormous Meat Consumption.

The Millennium Guild takes the dally average of half a pound of meat eaten by each individual of the United States and finds that In 60 years the average meat eater consumes four tons and a half, or, to put it in another way, this average person, at the end of 50 years, has eaten enough tons of meat to be the equivalent of six beef cattle, 15 calves, 22 sheep, 40 lambs, 10 hogs, 100 turkeys, 200 chickens and ducks, 1 deer, besides pigeons and small birds a goodly number. What a slaughter house we have made out of the world! Yet twothirds of the population of the globe, it is estimated, never eat meat Among these latter are millions of sturdy, healthy toilers. We also know that the horse, the ox, the elephant—strongest of all animal workers—build their strength on grasses and cereals.