“Beefsteak has become a fetish with many people; but the experiments of Chittenden and others have demonstrated that the amount of protein needed by the body daily is so small that it is scarcely possible to arrange a bill of fare to include flesh foods _without making the protein intake excessive_. This is because the ordinary foodstuffs other than meat contain a sufficient amount of protein to meet the needs of the body. Nuts present their protein in combination with so large a proportion of easily digestible fat that there is comparatively little danger of getting an excess,” states Dr. Kellogg. “_In face of vanishing supply of animal flesh it is most comforting to know that meats of all sorts may be safely replaced by nuts not only without loss, but with a decided gain_,” he adds. Among the other advantages of nuts and animal flesh which Dr. Kellogg cites are the freedom from waste products such as uric acid, urea, carmine, etc., which cause so many human ills. Nuts are clean, sweet and aseptic, free from putrefactive bacteria; while ordinary flesh foods contain three to thirty million putrefactive bacteria per ounce. [Sidenote: Nuts—clean, sweet and pure—do not deteriorate like animal flesh] Nuts are free from trichinæ, tape worm and parasites, and from the possibility of carrying specific disease which is always present with animal flesh. “=Nuts=,” says Dr. Kellogg, “=are in good health when gathered and remain so till eaten=.” Nuts—The Safer Source of Protein [Sidenote: Why add to your load the burden of the tired steer?] “Beefsteak has a certain food value,” says Good Health for January, 1919, “though far less than is generally attributed to it, =but in addition it embodies toxic elements, waste products from the animal’s body, contained in the venous blood, always poisonous, which gives the beefsteak its red color=.” “These elements are muscle poisons and brain poisons. They cause fatigue in the animal from which they are derived and in the man who eats them.” “An experiment by the late Victor Horsley, a London surgeon, proved that in concentrated form these poisons completely paralyze the brain cells.” [Sidenote: “Do we need meat?” asks Alfred W. McCann, famous food authority]