WHO SAYS BEEF?

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 21 August 1919, Page 4

WHO SAYS BEEF?

A lady doctor who lectured in Auckland recently on the cancer scourge certainly adopted an unpleasant way of puttigg things. She related how a certain farmer had a cancerous cow. The cancer was seated in the poor beast's back, and the farmer operated. He removed the cancer and later had the cow killed, and the carcase dressed and despatched to the market, where, in due course, it found buyers. The lecturer then went on to say that quite possibly some of his hearers had partaken of thatsame beef —while an almost audible shudder passed through the audience. Probably if the public knew all the secrets of the an.imal-fc.od. trade there would be more vegeterians. '■■ But what the eye doesn't see —etc., etc.