CHAPTER IX 

 ANIMAL PRODUCTS 



FEW people realise to what an extent human 

 beings are dependent upon animals for 

 supplying their daily needs, or how difficult it 

 would be to carry on the industries of the world 

 without them. The food supply which they yield 

 in the form of meat, poultry, fish, milk, eggs, etc., 

 is of primary importance ; and although it is a 

 much -debated question as to whether it would 

 not be a more desirable practice for mankind to 

 be contented with a vegetarian diet, yet in our 

 review of the various products which are obtained 

 from the different members of the Animal Kingdom 

 we will base our remarks upon the existing state 

 of affairs. In dealing with this part of our subject, 

 however, we do not propose to enter into a discussion 

 regarding the relative value of beef or mutton, 

 or whether chickens are more nutritious when boiled 

 than when roasted, but rather to inquire into the 

 more curious forms of food which appeal to the 

 palate of divers people throughout the world, and 

 concerning which remarkable beliefs are sometimes 

 held. 



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