Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — Dangerous Food. [ARTICLE]

Dangerous Food.

Parisian doctors are warning the people that they are running great risk in eating horse flesh, a sort of food that is said to be rapidly increasing in popularity there. Paris first became acquainted with the flavor of horse flesh during the seige of that city by the Germans. Many acquired a taste for it, and its cheapness compared with beef, costing less than half as much, commends it especially to the poor. Its use has also spread to Berlin and many other continental cities. The doctors have now discjvered that the horse is especially liable to trichinosis, a most dangerous disease, which has hitherto been supposed to effect only bogs.