THE BEEF SUPPLY 



chucks. In driving into us these invaluable 

 lessons the ruling high prices of beef are a 

 blessing in disguise. Rapid improvements 

 already visible and still to appear in cook- 

 ing must also do much to make men relish 

 beef and seek it as an important article of 

 their diet. 



On the other hand, there are forces tend- 

 ing to lessen the beef demand. Among 

 these one naturally considers first the preva- 

 lence of vegetarianism. Whether this prac- 

 tice in diet will increase or diminish is more 

 or less a matter of individual opinion. So 

 far as I can judge vegetarianism is not 

 spreading or likely to spread. If this is 

 true, the fact is perhaps due to the discov- 

 eries of fallacies in vegetarian reasoning. It 

 is urged against eating meat that in so doing 

 one always devours a certain proportion of 

 broken-down tissue with the live tissue. As 

 if the same thing did not occur in eating 

 vegetables ! 



It is also held forth that if a certain 

 weight of nut food is, in nutritiveness, the 

 equivalent of a given weight of beef, it is 



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