PROTECTIVE FOODS
DIETETICS IN RELATION TO AGRICULTURE. Dietetics in relation to agriculture was taken as his subject by Dr Keith Murray, research officer to the Agricultural Economic Research Institute, in addressing the British Social Hygiene Council. He said that the chief problems were to increase the consumption of protective foods, and to increase the output. "The housewife,” he said, “can purchase 3000 calories for from 5d to lOd by getting oatmeal, bread and potatoes. The same energy would cost 2s 4d from milk, 3s 6d from eggs, 7s 9d from meat, and 4s to 14s from the commoner fruits and vegetables.” To breach the gap between higher prices for the producer and the price the consumer was willing to pay the only good method was by subsidy, either to the producer or to ihe consumer. “Today we subsidise sugar, which, which is of little value as a protective food, to the extent of £14.000.000 a year, but milk is subsidised only to the extent of £750.000.” he added. “Whatever subsidy is paid must be paid out of the Exchequer and not out I of tariffs.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 9
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185PROTECTIVE FOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1939, Page 9
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