Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — What Vegetarians Say. [ARTICLE]

What Vegetarians Say.

Vegetarians say it is a popular fallacy that meat is needed for strength. One prominent exponent of the faith says it is a fact that the strongest animals in the world are vegetarian and not carnivorous. It is the ferocity of the lion rather than his strength that makes him formidable. An elephant is a match for several lions, and is a vegetarian. The animals with most speed and endurance, the horse, the reindeer', the antelope, and others, are also vegetarians. Dog trainers, says this authority, always feed their trick animals on a stictly vegetarian diet, and man v hunters So the same thing. Senator Palmer is said to have a vegetarian dog that is 22 years old.