Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1920 — Horse and Donkey Meat in Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Horse and Donkey Meat in Mexico.

The following from the Mexico correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association is suggestive of at least one way to lower the cost of living: “Because of the scarcity and the poor quality of the beef now on sale or through eagerness to make money, some people have been devoting themselves surreptitiously to the slaughter of donkeys, mules and horses. As some pf these people have been caught and punished, they intend to ask the board of public health that they be allowed to op«n a slaughterhouse exclusively for horses. The flesh of these animals is not bad, and during hard times we have eaten it here with full knowledge of Its origin, -and it is known that there Is in Havana a society of horsemeat eaters. I do not know anything about the quality of donkey meat."