10 MY HORSE ; MY LOVE 



Austria, Germany, France, and indeed all European 

 countries under the regime of military law. 



' In these countries there is a veterinary surgeon on every 

 Board of Health to determine the sanitary condition of 

 suspected animals before they are butchered. In Bavaria 

 every hog is examined by an animal doctor before it can be 

 sold, to avoid trichinosis, and since the horse has been 

 declared good for food, the fact proves that veterinary 

 science has made great strides.' 



Then science has proved that horse-flesh is good to 

 eat ? 



' It has, emphatically so. Horses were formerly too 

 expensive to buy for post-mortem examinations. Now, if a 

 horse break his leg, and so being useless is killed ; if, after 

 examination by a veterinary, he is pronounced healthy, he 

 can be cut up and eaten. The custom has become too 

 common to convey an idea of horror as it once did. In 

 some cities there are restaurants where horse-flesh is the 

 only meat provided. Then our daily accounts during the 

 siege of Paris, and the high esteem in which horse-meat was 

 there held, have helped also to cure us of this idea.' 



We might then have saved our shudders and our sym- 

 pathy for the horse-devouring community. 



' They could not starve while having sound horse-flesh to 

 live on. Three-fourths of the food supply of almost every 

 country is derived from the animal kingdom, which state- 

 ment, although it may offer a wide field for argument, is not 

 difficult of proof. To cite an exception : in the tropical 

 parts of Africa there is a fly so destructive to animal life 

 that only the goat can exist there. From the bite of the 

 tsetse fly a horse can never recover, and dies in ten days 

 or so, but it is innocuous to man. The men and women, 



