RATIONING OF MEAT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 58, 21 March 1944, Page 2

RATIONING OF MEAT

SCIENTISTS ASSIST

A live months intensive investigation into the nutritive character <>f all the many grades of New Zealand export quality html) and mutton was made prior to the recent introduction into the Dominion of the meat rationing scheme. The investigation work, conducted jointly by the Massey and Lincoln Agricultural Colleger in i l J42, was carried out specifically to assist the ISrilish Ministry of Food in its food rationing problems. It is on the meat, ration plan subsequently formulated in Britain that the New Zealand scheme has been stated to be based. The group of experts, who with their assistants numbered about 10. worked on the gathering of data practically night and day for the five months. Twelve grades of lamb. 12 of ewe mutton and 12 of wether mutton, with from live to ten carcases in each grade, were dealt with in that hectic period of work. The experts were asked to provide accurate data upon the make-up of the carcase and- its different joints in terms ,of the amount of bone, muscle and fat tissue; upon the chemical composition of the edibie tissues; and upon the calorific and protein yield from North and South Island carcases, selected at random from graded lots wlr.ch had been in store for at last three mouths.