IN 1917 6⁄10 6⁄10 ½ SHALL WE CEASE TO EAT MEAT OR DRINK MILK OR WEAR WOOLEN CLOTHES Copyright 1919, Field Illustrated Field Illustrated shows that, the country over, it takes an average of three acres to support a single full grown cow through the summer season alone. It shows that wheat is the great competitor of the meat crop, that wheat has driven livestock from the western ranges, and that during the past four years wheat has been driving the dairy cows and the beef steer from the eastern and middle western farms. [Sidenote: Animals must not compete with human beings for cereal foods] “Whenever there is pressure for food,” concludes Field Illustrated, “and animals must compete with humans for the cereal products of the fields, then animals are pretty likely to lose out. =An acre of corn will feed ten times as many people in the form of Johnny Cakes as it would if converted into meat.=” This statement is in striking accord with the conclusions reached by Graham Lusk, one of the two American representatives to the Inter-Allied Scientific Food Commission, who wrote in December, 1918, “=It is, therefore, axiomatic that in times of scarcity one must not give to pigs food which can nourish human beings.=” For further data, see pages 14 and 15. Why America Must Eat Less Animal Flesh The call of the United States Food Administration for =meatless days=, for =porkless days= and for =every day a fat saving day=, taught a lesson that America will never forget. [Sidenote: Americans use twice as much animal flesh as any European nation] Food experts have for years emphasized the fact that Americans eat too much animal flesh. Physical Culture says: “About forty per cent. of our American bill of fare is of animal origin. In England the percentage is but twenty per cent. of the total food, in Continental Europe it is less, and in Japan it is not more than five per cent. Yet the Japanese have astounded the world in every test of endurance.” [Sidenote: Excessive in cost, wasteful, and the cause of illness]