Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon

Description:	Animals at Mesker Zoo read a letter asking zoo directors to sell surplus animals for meat. The animals react with horror and shock, and a seal comments that it would be very greasy. Animals pictured include: monkey, chimpanzee, elephant, buffalo, tiger, lion, zebra, goose, camel, goat, seal, elk, and antelope. Image Access WideTEK 25 Attention Zoological Park Directors. We are interested in purchasing your excess stock of birds, monkeys, raccoons, and other small animals. There is now quite a food problem confronting the public, and I have been approached by a large wholesale butcher in New York to ask zoological parks for surplus deer, buffalo, elk, goats, sheep, antelope, as well as such fowl as pheasants, ducks, and geese. Fowl would be shipped alive, but the other items would be slaughtered by a local butcher, bled and gutted, inspected by a Government inspector, and shipped to us by refrigerated freight. You will do the hungry populace a great favor by selling your surplus animals for meat. Kindly send us your list of such items, together with your best prices. Mesker Zoo. What a hunk of grease Id make.
Origin:	2014
Created By:	Karl Kae Knecht
Source:	http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/1637
Collection:	Karl K. Knecht Collection
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Subjects:	Local Affairs Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States Zoos -- Indiana -- Evansville Zoo animals -- Indiana -- Evansville

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