What Vegetarians May Come To.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 October 1911, Page 4

What Vegetarians May Come To.

The vegetarian editor was having an argument with 'his meat-eating colleague.

"What an ordinary mixed diet of bread, butter, eggs, meat, milk, sugar, fish, potatoeSj and .green vegetables," said tlie meat-eater, "an average man will eat about four to five pounds weight daily. "If lie depended on potatoes alone ho should 1 eat at least ten pounds; and when lie adds cabbage, turnips, cauliflowers, and other watery vegetables, has consumption might be twelve or 'fifteen pounds "before" he )had really.en ougli to keep him in condition. This means a greatly enlarged stomach and other digestive organs.

"Look at a cow or a horse. They seem to be nearly all stomach and other abdominal parts. As a matter of fact, about twenty per cent., or ir.jio-fi.ft-h of tile entire holy of vegetarian animals is digestive organs. Tn flesh-eating animals the figure is about five pea- cent., or ono-twontieth of the body. Arid in man it is eeven to eight per cent., or about one-fourteenth of the body. "But if vegetarian dieting were continued from fattier to son for a •number of generations, the end would be, very likely, a resemblance to the cow in the abdominal region, and considerable difficult?- in", <*ett.in<v about." "