| Description | Gives the background of the Food Committee, engaged on food problems at the request of the President of the Board of Trade -- gives the ministries and boards that have referred problems to it (Board of Trade, Board of Agriculture, Admiralty and War Office). Suggests that the problems of food supply on which it has reported are interdependent -- gives the example of meatless days [recommended by the Ministry of Food], which would have the result of simply delaying slaughter of already too-large cattle numbers -- the fixing of milk price, which 'increases supply in the immediate neighbourhood...of production at the expense of more remote places' -- the channeling of oats and barely from livestock to humans -- stresses the need for a scientific advisor on these and other matters. |