THE JEWISH MEAT SUPPLY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2683, 21 September 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE JEWISH MEAT SUPPLY.

That U'ir.pcraucc and cleanliness in eating and dt uiking will contribute to health and long life is an axiom nsold as common sense or Lily ; and as the birth of folly

irecuded that of Mosos, the Liberator of he Children of Israel was compelled early

in his career to become the first great sanitary and dietetic reformer of which we hive any record. The influence of

the Mosaic legislation on these questions is visible even at the present day in the singular vitality and longevity of the

,Jewish race, and in their freedom from certain forms of disease, especially those of a scrofulous and consumptive eharae-

ter. These results have been no doubt attained by the excessive carefulness which the Jews hare always shown, and still show, as to tho kind, quality, and condition oF the butcher's moat they consume. This is tlm subject of the lutust chapter in tho jcrius of articles on tho sale of diseased meat which have so profoundly stmtled the people in England and made them reflect more than ever over the system by which they are supplied with a vitil poition of their food. The article in question, basing on evidence drawn from the most trustworthy suurcus, describes the Jewish system of meat supply, which sejuis to be as near perfec-

ion as the most exacting medical autho

rity could wish. Its value consists in the fact that only the best animals are selected tor consumption, and that even these, when slaughtered, arc subjected to a severity of inspection which practically excludes the possibility of a bit of dis eased meat ever reaching the tables of

the Jewish eon.ir.unity. Indeed, no Jew will eat an ounce of meat that has not received the imprimatur of the n/ioc/it'tirui, who perform the work of killers. There is one at least in all the large, towns of the old country, and it is obvious from the facts set forth in the article that if good meat conduces to good liuiilt h, the Jews have l-y far the best chance of escaping the diseases communicated by the use of inferior or tainted meat Tho question is so important that it would be a great mistake not to study the Jewish system in connection with any reforms which we may think proper to introduce in our own system of meat supply and inspection.