Better Fed and Healthier

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 2, 3 January 1940, Page 6

Better Fed and Healthier

Britain’s Abundant Food Supplies COULD CUT IMPORTS TO WHEAT AND FATS (British Official Wireless.) Received Tuesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 2. Sir John Boyd Orr, the distinguished nutrition authority, broadcasting ou “The People’s Food in War-time,” said: “We are a better fed and healthier nation to-day than we were at the beginning of the last war.” Referring to the position of the supply of milk, Sir John said we had a great surplus of liquid milk going for manufacturing purposes which might well be diverted to human consumption, and we were producing enough milk to permit an increaso of 20 per cent, in consumption and yet have a considerable surplus. Speaking of the two vital foodstuffs which Britain had to continue to import —wheat and fat—Sir John recalled that Canada has had a bumper wheat harvest. She has twice as much as tho whole of Germany. Thus wo arc enabled to obtain plenty of wheat by the . safest and shortest sea route. The A Ministry of Food had also built up an £ enormous store of fat. Sir John Boyd Orr contended that “wc could cut down our imports to whoat and fat, which would only be a mere fraction of the total imports in peacetime, and still have a national diet which would keep everybody healthy p.nd physically fit.”