"Twenty-two acres of land are needed to sustain one man on fresh meat. Under wheat that land will feed forty-two people; under oats, eighty-eight; under potatoes, maize, or rice, one hundred and seventy-six; under the banana, over six thousand. The crowded nations of the future must abandon flesh-eating for a diet that will feed more than tenfold people by the same soil, expense and labor. How rich men will be when they cease to toll for flesh-meat, alcohol, drugs, sickness, and war!" "Suffer the ox to plough, and impute his death to age and Nature's hand. Let the sheep continue to yield us sheltering wool, and the goats the produce of their loaded udders. Banish from among you nets and snares and painful artifices, Conspire no longer against the birds, nor scare the meek deer, nor hide with fraud the crooked hook; .... But let your mouths be empty of blood, and satisfied with pure and natural repasts."[1] [1] Imputed to Pythagoras. COMPARATIVE TABLES OF Vegetable and Animal FOODS. IN 100 PARTS. =====================+=============+=================+=========+======== | Nitrogenous | Hydro-carbonate | Saline | Water. | Matter. | Matter. | Matter. | ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Lean beef | 19.3 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 72.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Fat beef | 14.8 | 29.8 | 4.4 | 51.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Lean mutton | 18.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 72.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Fat mutton | 12.4 | 31.1 | 3.5 | 53.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Veal | 16.5 | 15.8 | 4.7 | 63.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Fat pork | 9.8 | 48.9 | 2.3 | 39.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Dried ham | 8.8 | 73.3 | 2.9 | 15.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Tripe | 13.2 | 16.4 | 2.4 | 68.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- White fish | 18.1 | 2.9 | 1.0 | 78.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+-------- Red fish (salmon) | 16.1 | 5.5 | 1.4 | 77.0 ---------------------+-------------+-----------------+---------+--------