Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cows. Dr. Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...
Disgusting, however, was the food they were obliged to eat when their civilized provender gave out. Edible berries abounded, but often resembled poisonous kinds. They gingerly tried armadillo meat, scooping the flesh from the bowl-like shells. It had a faint herby taste. In extremity they killed small monkeys, skinned them, put the little, human-like heads out of nauseating sight, gutted and boiled the creatures. Monkey meat they found pallid, tasteless. Spices thrown into the soup pots made the meat palatable...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...
...Meat-loving patrons, profit-loving stockholders, encompassed the downfall, last week, of the "Vegetable-wise" policy of the Childs Co. Devoted to vegetarianism, President William Childs had offered patrons of his 120 restaurants every conceivable substitute for meat. He had invoked the experience of the heroic Greeks, meat-haters. Statistics of calories and vitamins filled his menus. But gross sales for five months of 1928 showed a falling off of 9%, while the common stock sagged from a high 74 in 1925 to a 1928 low of 38. And last week he yielded, but without grace. Inept...
...BILL OF FARE Freedom of Choice MEATS For the Meat Eater FRUITS CEREALS FRESH VEGETABLES DAIRY PRODUCTS For Health and Economy...