MEAT FAMINE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 21 May 1914, Page 5

MEAT FAMINE

k WORLD SHORTAGE DEMAND OUTRUNS SUPPLY. (Press Associatio.v. —Copytu o mt.) LONDON, May 18. There are widespread fears that the world's demand for meat vt ill shortly outrun the supply, and that the result will be a large advance iii the prices of food generally". CAUSES OPERATING'. (R-ec May 21. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 20.

The "Daily Mail," referring to the world meat famine, states that cattle in Argentina are so expensive that land owners are unable to properly stock their laud. The public demand is so great that animals are sold, whenever saleable. The demand for milk in England had led to a policy of slaughtering instead of breeding calves. The difficulty was increased by the Japanese becoming meat eaters.

(In an article in the 'Mail" on Tuesday, under: the heading of "A 1915 Crisis," the matter of the meat shortage was fully dealt with. It was stated in the article : '"Not only does the United Kingdom increase its consumption of meat per head of population a- little, but the United States, Canada, Japan, and iTitssia are all believed to be doing so quite fast. The United States, indeed, are able to offer statistics which virtually prove it to be so. Canada, with its bracing climate, is teaching the value of concentrated food to myriads of poor settlers from countries where meat was not within their means. The Japanese always ate fish as well as rice, and are finding strength and stamina in beef, against which there is no religious prohibition, a« in India. Russia has a. population of one hundred and thirty millions, a- hundred millions of whom have hitherto been too poor to eat meat except on festivals. "With the -\jast increase in Russian agricultural exports of the last ten years a degree of prosperity has been attained which is expressing itself in a more generous diet."}