Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1884 — Waste of Food. [ARTICLE]

Waste of Food.

The flesh of domestic animals fit for food is almost a waste substance in many countries, since it cannot be locally consumed nor profitably preserved. In the River Plate republics alone there are 80,000,000 sheep and 25,000,000 cattle to a population of 2,500,000. For years sheep were only valued there for their wool, and when flayed, carcasses were left to rot, or, when dried in the sun, piled up in stacks for fuel, while later on they were boiled down for their tallow. Sheep got very fat in the province of Buenos Ayers, and those of three or four years will give frequently from eighteen to twenty-five pounds of tallow. Countless numbers of sheep are„ boiled down every year in the so-called greaseries only for the tallow, which forms one of the staple articles of export. The mutton is thrown away, or used in a dry state as fuel; In five years, more than 1,500,000 sheep and 200,000 horned cattle were boiled down simply for their tallow in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.— Popular Science.