THE MODEL BUTCHER.
Farmers, and yet more vitally consumers. should be concerned as to the latest evidence (roost of it condensed in a lecture to the Model Abattoir Society during the week) on one particular detail in the meat trade. Wherever model abattoirs have been established the percentage of condemned meat has increased in huge proportion. This can only mean that as things are huge amounts of diseased meat are con- sumed, to the great injury of our people. There is, of course, no question on any ground, moral, economic, physiological, that animals ought to be scientifically killed : morally because pain • is minimised and brutality assuaged, economically because thui only can the valuable by-products be saved and used : physiologically because poison would be eliminated froin meat food. It is scarcely credible that in scientitio days a community should "not have insisted On a 'reform thui
..W. BEACH TuonAli.
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