CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Introdtjctoey and General. 



Man an Omnivorous Animal — Some Eastern Nations eschew 

 Animal Food — Varieties of Food rf Different People 

 — Man the only Cooking Animal — Variable Food in 

 Different Ages and Climates — Less Animal Food 

 Eaten in Tropical Regions than in Temperate and ' 

 Arctic Regions — Various Food Delicacies — A Chinese 

 Dinner — Wild American Animals as Food — ^Marrow 

 — Tinned or Preserved Meats — Statistics of Imports 

 of Animal Food from America — Charqni — Dried and 

 Jerked Meats of Different Countries— Pastoormah — 

 Dendeng — Frozen Carcases — Choice Morsels held in 

 Special Estimation — ^Value of our Imports of Animals 

 and Animal Products for Food in 1883 — Advance in 

 Prices — Meat Consumption in France — ^Meat Pro- 

 duction and Consumption in Russia — ^United States 

 Consumption — ^Mutton despised in many Countries — 

 Large Consumption in Great Britain — .Slaughter of 

 Sheep in Buenos Ayres — Goats' Flesh very little 

 Eaten — Our Foreign Supplies of Animal Food — 

 Average Individual Consumption — Value of Cheese 

 as Food — Imports of Butter and Cheese from Abroad 

 — Diseased Meat as Food — ^Not considered to be In- 

 jurious — German Legislation thereon — Extensive 

 Use of Animals which have Died by a large Low- 

 Caste Population in India — M. Decroix's Personal 

 Experience of a Quarter of a Century Feeding on 

 the Flesh of Diseased Animals — Medical Evidence 

 taken on this Subject before the Irish Cattle Trade 

 Defence Association — Diseased Lung of a Bullock 

 Cooked and Eaten — Opinion of the Lancet on Diseased 

 Meat 



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