2O FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



That the foremost nations of the earth intellectually 

 and physically were consumers of both animal and veg- 

 etable products is shown in a marked degree in ancient 

 times by the history of the Jews, the Greeks and the 

 Romans. These nations produced the finest specimens of 

 the human race in the olden times, viewed from both 

 standpoints when taken together. In the more recent 

 centuries the Anglo-Saxon peoples have forged away TO 

 the front as evidenced in the relative position held by 

 Great Britain and her colonies and more recently by the 

 United States, at one time a British Colony. These races 

 are the greatest relative consumers of animal products 

 in the world. In the consumption of these products per 

 capita, the United States stands first among all the na- 

 tions of the earth, and where, it may be asked, among all 

 these nations, can the superior of the average American 

 be found in physical and intellectual development. 



The low development intellectually of the peoples who 

 live entirely or mainly on the flesh of animals is shown 

 in the history of the barbarous races of both ancient and 

 modern days. Such races have never wielded an impor- 

 tant influence in shaping the destinies of the human fam- 

 ily. They vanish in the presence of the more aggressive 

 races whose food blends in reasonable equilibrium, grains, 

 vegetables, fruits and animal products, as illustrated in 

 the present condition of the Indian tribes of North Amer- 

 ica. The showing is some better with peoples who live 

 mainly on vegetable products, as in the case of some of 

 the nations of southeastern Asia, but none of these now 

 occupy or have ever occupied that high position relatively 

 which has been accorded to the nations above referred 

 to, whose people have fed on animal and vegetable 

 products. 



Had no provision been made by the Creator for sus- 

 taining man except through the growth of products from 

 the soil to be consumed directly, then a very large pro- 

 portion of nature's energy in production would be. ex- 



