Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — What People Can Eat. [ARTICLE]

What People Can Eat.

According to some of the reports that are sifting through from the inner regions of the war territories great ingenuity in the use of scientific knowledge in extracting food values from unusual sources is being employed. There are many articles good for human food, and wholesome food at that, which under ordinary conditions are not drawn upon at all. There are the angle worm, the grasshopper, and fully a score of plants not ordinarily used as food, which, properly prepared, constitute nourishing foods. It is perhaps only the most desperate and resolute sort of appetite that would stand for the earth worm, but they have been eaten even by highly civilized people, and when properly prepared are said to be not so bad. Why should we be squeamish about the angle worm when we eat the oyster, stomach, lungs and ‘ everything buti the shell? As to grasshopperss, they were an ancient delicacy and are yet so regarded by many races who know what’s what in the of good things to eat. All the grasses that are eaten by animals have nourishing juices. Clover and green timothy possess a higher food quality than cabbage or potatoes. Boiled to tenderness they would prevent starvation. There have been famine periods when human beings have been obliged to eat field grasses and wild plant roots;.—Baltimore Star.