MEAT EATING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 7

MEAT EATING.

EFFECTS OF BAN. WOULD INITIATIVE DIE? VARIED OPINIONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.! LONDON. June 0. Docs moat-eating make men ndven-. turousi This hone <>t" contention \\a< thrown l>y Professor K. I'. Cathcart. of . Glasgow. the famous physiologist, addressing the Association of leathers of Domestic Science in London. "Can the lack of adventure and initiative many Hull to-day !>e ascriVd ; to a lower consumption of meat":"' lie asked. j "What kind of a league would it l>e I if all meat-eating were hanned in the i worldV ]srotherliness at once? —And Beer "We have alwav- said we have won our Kn pire on heef and Iwr. Art we going to decline':" i A "Sunday Referee" reporter called upon Dr. O. M. Vcvers. siiperiiileiideiit j of the Zoological Society. Me said: "The highest anthropoids, like chimpanzees. sliow superior intelligence and physique on a vegetarian diet. The lower; forms, like gorillas, need a weekly ration of lieef steak and chicken." .Mr. Frank Wyatt. secretary of the London Vegetarian Society, and Mr. \\ . O. T. ISlois. secretary of the National Federation of Meat Trades Associations, entered the ring. Flashed Mr. Wyatt: "We have coinhat iveness of mind rather than of hody. "Hut don't rou-i' us l>y bullying! • Ivemcmliei- the Sikhs and the i'athaus. | They are vegetarian." Countered Mr. Itlois: "If statistics show any decrease in meat consumption, it is U'cause of the decline of the heavy; industries. "Whoever heard of an iron or steel J worker subsisting on a diet of haricot | heans and monkey nuts":"' | Really! | An exquisite. toying with a milk j shake whose colours matched his old school tie. remarked acidly: "Vou Press fellows are the last word." "Milk liars do not a milk sop make Nor sandwich liars a cad." Sparkled a lluggcr player, inspired 1 by a porter-lu-u-e s? (;l k nnd frothing' pint. "Well. I mean to say . . . y'know . . . One man's meat is another man's poison, w hat .'" Detinitel v !