The Real Beefeaters.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 17 April 1914, Page 3

The Real Beefeaters.

Americans are the largest meat eaters in the world, according to returns published by the Department of Agriculture. In one year the consumption of meat per was 162201 b. Beef is apparently the favourite meat, anb accounted, roughly, for 801 b of the total. Then comes pore, of which everyone in the United States consumes 671 b. in the year. Veal and mutton are a long way below these in popularity, and are only eaten to the extent of 71b. and 61b. per head per annum respectively. Last on the list is goat meat, of which so little is eaten that the average consumption per head is put down at 131 b. The English are the next largest meat eaters, and show a greater partiality to mutton, consuming 261 b. per head in a year, as against 61b with which the average American citizen is satisfied. With both Germans and Frenchmen, pork, according to the returns, is the favourite flesh food—possibly the partiality of the former for sausages is reflected in the discovery but altogether the average German only consumes about 1131 b of meat of all kinds in a year.