A GROWING MEAT INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 23

A GROWING MEAT INDUSTRY.

Lecturing at Cambridge on Polar exploration, Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer and Lecturer in Anthropology at Harvard University, said that a' formerly undreamed of industry had been developed in Alaska, where domestic reindeer herds now graze winter and summer as much as 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, with reindeer beef served regularly in most of the good hotels and restaurants of the large American cities, the price of chops and steaks quoted daily in the American Press, offices of the reindeer companies in the Wall Street district, and every other sign of a developing and permanent industry. The speaker believed that within ten years Teindeer meat would be more common than chicken on the markets of the United States, within 25 years more common than mutton, and within half a century the commonest meat in the world. The chief reason for this food tendency was the steady conversion of the grazing lands of such countries as Texas, Australia and the Argentine into cereal and orchard lands.