A VEGETARIAN WORLD.
From several points of view beef is the most wasteful of all forms of food. Acres allotted to the production of vege- tarian food will support from five to ten times as many people as acres devoted to fodder for cattle. Supposing the world were greatly overcrowded we should be compelled to be vegetarian ; and as Prince Kropotkin showed long ago such production may be so intensified that an acre may produce food worth as much as twenty or even more fatted stock who would need nearly as many acres for their support. At the moment the scientific investigators in a number of countries are supporting the belief that the coming generation will consume more milk and more vegetables. We are in need of a word to describe this combination, which Dr. Hindhede, director of the laboratory for nutrition research in Copenhagen, selects as " the most healthy and cheapest." Will not the Countryman, where this fact, too, is emphasized, discover such a word ? Vegetarian is misleading in sound and origin.
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