The Reason Why Horse-Flesh is Liked in Germany.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 82, 9 January 1896, Page 2

The Reason Why HorseFlesh is Liked in Germany.

Everybody is aware that the horse is tha cleanliest of all -.domestic anim&W. It will not eat anything but good healthy food, nor . drink any but pure water. A horse would •rather starve than take ' the rotten BtufE often given to pigs and cattle. Itisnothinir but prejudice that prevents us from eatin(f~~ horseflesh. A similar prejudice retarded the introduction of the potato a hundred years ago. To day we could not get alone 4 without it. Yet the prejudice against pota- 4 toes can be explained. The people had been " told that the American root caused fever and rendered the ground unfit for all other crops. The exception against horseflesh is not even fpHnded upon any objection to its properties. It is solely diia to the influence of the church. The elerev diif everything possible to prevent the newly" oon verted Saxons from returning to their heathenish praoticea, and prohibited the use of horseflesh to ston the sacrifices to Odin and Thor. A long time pa.sed bXe these sacrifices were altogether discontinum! " Theoationßof Europe have suffered euor mous los 3by this prohibition of horseflaih Especially from tha humanitarian point of view the tesults are most deplorable Mil lions of people are forced to live on potatoes and similar food wanting in nutritivf qualities, while millions of pounds of the v»~ beat meat are wasted. Horseflesh is -the moat nourishing of all m^HMto^rtg, tastn ■ hardly to be disti.£uisli^H^MU t of hLJr The flesh of a-borse fed riSHs^s 1 \ b °°£ similar to gooseflesh. The ifa^is profeSSi that no flesh is so healthy as that of tht N horse. Trichinosis and similar diaW cg ar« unknown in hor.es.. Tuberculo^ S ,£™ common in cattle, is very rare in horses — - Frankfurter Zeitung.' . "»"<".—