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sweat of his brow," but accepts whatever is passed on to him by a 

 long line of producers and purveyors who do his sweating for him, 

 depriving him of the opportunity of earning both appetite and good 

 digestion by honest toil. So he resorts to condiments and ragouts, 

 palate-tickling and tongue-tickling sauces and nerve-rousing stimu- 

 lants, as a means of securing the unearned felicity of gustatory en- 

 joyment. 



At the World's Eugenics Congress held in New York last fall, 

 Professor Davenport expressed the opinion that the human race 

 will ultimately perish, and Major Darwin, son of Charles Darwin, 

 one of the world's leading economists, gave expression to similar 

 views. We are evidently traveling a downhill road and the tide of 

 degeneracy is rising so fast it will certainly sweep us on to race ex- 

 tinction unless we return to sane and biologic living. We are 

 primates, not carnivores like the dog, nor omnivores like the hog. 

 The primates are fruit and nut eaters in whatever part of the world 

 they are found. All the primates adhere to the family bill of fare. 

 The gorilla, reigning king of beasts in the forests of the Congo, his 

 somewhat lesser relative, the chimpanzee, which tenants a wide area 

 of the Dark Continent, the orang-utan of Borneo, and the gibbon of 

 tropical Asia, diversified as they are in form and habitat, are all 

 equally circumspect in their adherence to the diet of nuts and fruits, 

 tender shoots and soft grains, foods which Nature has prescribed as 

 the primate's bill of fare. 



A return to natural eating would doubtless do, to say the least, 

 as much as any one thing toward checking the downward race move- 

 ment, and no one who has ever studied the economics of diet will 

 question that the only way in which the earth's dense populations of 

 the future can be fed will be by the elimination of the flesh-pots and 

 a resumption of the natural dietary. This is clear when we recall the 

 fact that the Agricultural Experiment Stations have demonstrated 

 that 33 pounds of digestible foodstuffs are required to make one 

 pound of beef. When an animal is fattened, the creature uses a 

 large part of the food which it consumes for its own purposes. The 

 eater of flesh does not get back the original corn and other foods 

 given to the animal but only a small fraction of it; and hence dense 

 populations can only indulge in beef eating by importing meats 

 from other countries not yet fully occupied. Evidently, the present 

 rapid increase of the earth's population will soon bring us to a point 

 where this enormous waste must cease. Flesh eating will have to 

 be abandoned for economic reasons. Even the milk supply will 

 necessarily be limited, for we are compelled to feed the cow 5 pounds 

 of digestible foodstuffs to obtain 1 pound of water-free food in the 

 form of milk. 



Those pessimistic economists who predict that by the year 

 2000 the American Continent will be so densely populated that 

 means will have to be adopted to limit the increase of population 

 because of the scarcity of foodstuffs, are evidently not aware of the 



