are a little out of date.[258] In
Europe and America there is evidence of a decreasing meat consumption
among educated people, and medical papers are full of counsels to
diminish the amount of meat consumed. There is also in the West an
increasing sensitiveness to the horrors inflicted on animals in
transportation by rail and steamer, and if an animal industry were
established in Japan there would certainly be a great deal of
transportation by rail and steamer from the breeding to the rearing
districts, and from these districts to the slaughtering centres. If
the present advocacy of an animal industry for Japan should triumph
over the reluctance to take animal life inculcated by Buddhism it is
hardly likely to be regarded in the West as a forward step in the
ethical evolution of the Japanese.[259]

I had the good fortune to meet in Sapporo a man who has made a
special study of the food of the Japanese people, Professor Morimoto
of the University. He said that he had no doubt that when the Japanese
began to eat bread instead of rice they would develop a taste for meat
as well as butter. With great kindness he placed at my disposal
statistics which he afterwards expanded in a thesis for Johns Hopkins
University. He had investigated the dietary of the families of 200
tenants of the University farms. Reduced to terms of men per day the
result was:

Sen. Sen.
Rice (1.95 _go_) 4.2 Vegetables 2.2
(Naked) barley (3.45 _go_) 3.3 Pickles[260] .6
Fish 1.0 Sake .08
_Miso_ .7 Sugar .02
_Shoyu_ (soy) .03 ------
12.13

Or at Tokyo prices, 14.3 sen. On averaging, in terms of per man per
day, the food and drink consumption of all Japan, Professor Morimoto
found the result to be:

Sen. Sen.
Grain 6.60 Fruits .40
Legumes .39 Sugar .53
Vegetables 2.00 Salt .20
Fish and seaweeds .54 Tea .10
Beef and veal .10 } Alcoholic
Other animal food .03 } liquor 1.50
Chicken .03 } .33 Tobacco .45
Eggs .13 }
Milk .04 }