Canada's Meatless Days
• In hotels and restaurants and other public eating-places throughout Canada Tuesday and Friday have been established as meatless days. This is the lirst step in a Dominion-wide meat conservation programme which is designed to reduce Canadian annual meat consumption from approximately 147 to 130 pounds per or about 12 per cent, Preparations are now under way to reimpose consumer rationing by coupons. The bas-ic ration will be one and one-third pounds per week. Poultry and fish are not included. Meat stocks in Canada are now little more than one-half of what they were a year ago. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports that all wholesale meat in Canada on July 1 totalled approximately 58,000 0001b against a year ago. Pork beef ? veal and mutton stocks are all lower. The greatest reduction is in mutton and lamb stocks, which totalled only 747 5 000lb on July 1, compared to 2 825,0001b a year ago. The primary fuirpuse of meat rationing is to increase. the meat supplied for the hungr3 r peoples of Europe.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 2, 31 August 1945, Page 3
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175Canada's Meatless Days Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 2, 31 August 1945, Page 3
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