EATING OF MEAT.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6600, 16 May 1925, Page 7

EATING OF MEAT.

HUMAN RACE BECOMING MORE CARNIVOROUS

The human race is evidently becoming more, rather than less, carnivorous, in spite of all the propaganda of the vegetarians (says the Daily Chronicle). Sir Gordon Campbell, giving evidence before the Food Prices Commission, showed that there is a possibility of something like a meat famine in the near future — meaning, apparently, that other people may eat the meat that we want here. The point is not that less beef and mutton are being produced, but that a great deal of the world is eating more of both. The consumption in this country has been increasing. The Continent of Europe is constantly demanding more. And to such an extent is the demand growing in the United States that that country may soon begin to import its meat. *

Sir Gordon Campebell's evidence makes it clear that those who think that we can get in the near future the bulk of our imported beef from the Dominions are wrong. In Australia there are only 13,000,000 head of catte to-day; the River Plate has some 50,000,000 or 60,000,000. The Dominions cannot quickly increase their number, and meanwhile are consuming more themselves.