Excerpt from Animal Foodstuffs, Their Production and Consumption With a Special, Reference to the British Empire: A Study in Economic Geography and Agricultural Economics Animal foodstuffs arc now regarded as essential, together with cereals, in the dietary of all the great civilised nations of the world, except, perhaps, of the Japanese, who, however, have abundant supplies of fish available to furnish concentrated proteids, and fats. With the rapid advance of industrialisation and the massing of great populations in towns, subsisting upon foodstuffs brought from a distance, the trade in these products has assumed an importance which it never had before, and the question of supplies stands out with ever-increasing prominence. Into the problems that arise from questions of supply and demand, or, more precisely, of production and consumption of animal food products, it is the purpose of the following chapters to enter. In the course of this inquiry it is proposed to define such products so as to include, first, meats of various kinds, including pork and bacon; second, meat products, such as extracts, lard and oleo ; third, dairy products including whole milk, condensed and dried milk, and margarine, in addition to butter and cheeses; and fourth, poultry and eggs. Fish, which, it may be noted, can physiologically serve as a complete substitute for meat and dairy products in human diet, is intentionally excluded from the definition, since the geographical conditions of its supply are totally different. Fish, therefore, are discussed in this inquiry only as far as they affect the consumption of animal products. It is to be noted that difficulties immediately arise from any arbitrary separation of animal food products from other food articles of general or special consumption by human populations. Cereals and other vegetable products, such as potatoes, and even fruits, though produced or imported primarily for direct human consumption, may also be partly used as feedstuffs for domestic animals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.