MONEY AND FOOD
Sir-In a recent issue I read with great interest the remarks of Sir John Boyd Orr on the diets of the people of Britain before the latest war. He said, inter alia, "For health you’d want foods with plenty of vitamins in them such as milk, eggs, fruit, and vegetables, but they’d cost you twice as much. Hence, the poorer the family; the less they could buy of the more costly but quite essential vitamin-rich foods." In reading these words my thoughts flashed back to the recently-reported words of Mr. B. V. Cooksley, who said (I: quote from memory): "In normal times Britain produces enough vegetables for her needs and even does a considerable overseas trade." There seems to be here a marked difference of opinion as to what constitutes Britain’s needs in the way of vegetables. Mr. Cooksley no doubt is re- | ferring to the amount which the markets can absorb, an ‘amount strictly governed by the income of the people. Sir John, however, would no doubt define Britain’s need as the minimum amount required for the proper health of all its people. Apparently with food as with so many other things, we shall see no real progress until we cease to think of money only and base our economic plans solely on the people’s needs.
E.R.
D.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 28
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223MONEY AND FOOD New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 28
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