EMUS FOR FOOD
RUSSIA’S MEAT PROBLEM. PROPOSED SOLUTION. LONDON, Aug. 27. The London correspondent of the "Sunday Times” states that, according to Professor Mannteuffel, superintendent of the Moscow Zoo, the problem of Russia’s meatless day will be solved by the importation of mighty droves of antipodean emus. The proopsal is to import 1000 pairs of Australian emus, which, with the help of incubators, would be capable of raising 15 young annually. It is calculated that in two and ahalf years each bird would be capable of supplying the proletariat with 901 b. of “plump, succulent and savoury meat.” The emus would eat vitaminous waste on which, the professor alleges, they can thrive even in Moscow’s suburbs, although it is intended that the main hordes shall freely roam over the South Russian steppes. Other proposed meat substitutes include whale, shark, sea elephant, porpoise, cormorant and the e.iderdnck.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 7
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146EMUS FOR FOOD Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 227, 7 September 1933, Page 7
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