VALUE OF VEGETABLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18598, 28 December 1920, Page 7

VALUE OF VEGETABLES.

Throughout tho whole animal creation, in ©very country of the earth, th© most useful animals that eat vegetable food, work. The all-powerful elephant, and the patient, untiring camel, in the torrid zone; the horse, the ox, or the donkey, in the temperate; and the reindeer in the frigid zone—obtain all their muscular power from Nature’s simplest productions, the vegetable kingdom. But all the flesh-eating animals keep the rest of the animated creation in constant dread of them. They seldom eat vegetable food until some other animal has eaten it first, and made it into flesh. Their own flesh is unfit for othor animals to eat, having been itself made out of flesh, and is most foul and offensive- Great strength, fleetness of foot, usefulness, cleanliness and docility are always characteristic of vegetable eaters.