HORSEFLESH CURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 25 April 1912, Page 4

HORSEFLESH CURE.

NEW DIET FOK. INVALIDS.

Horseflesh is being largely ealeu

i*. 'is' T vho have been uidered 11 by tueu medical attendants. Many Preucu doctors hold that horsemeat is more nourishing, easier to digest, and ot gieater recuperative value lor consumptives than other meatThe ‘‘superahmeutaiiou’' cure loi tuberculosis patients is nearly always based on a diet oi horse flesh, in most cases minced very hue and eaten raw. The secretary ot the Horse Butchers’ Association in the great horse market in the Vanguard quarter ot Paris declared that eacu horse is carefully examined and is rejected at once at the least sign ol disease or even of age, which will make it undesirable tor human food. “The animals we kill,” he said, “are perfectly healthy,” and he pointed out some fine looking while Walloon hors , "One 01 the best measures that could be taken m view of the dear food agitation,” he said, “would be to suppress the high import tax on horses destined to be slaughtered. Tet us import horses trom Hngiand. The horse butcher would be glad ol another 100.000 horses a year. A rio of beei m Pads cost xs ion a pound, and a similar portion ot horse nd.”