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...German chemist, Friedrich Bergius, detailed a process for converting "wood waste, such as sawdust, into virtually unlimited supplies of synthetic food products containing all the fundmental elements of nutrition...
Perhaps the most remarkable announcement was that of the German professor, Friedrich Bergius, who claimed to have developed a means for converting sawdust into food. Across two columns atop its front page on September 12, 1936, The Times reported the following...
...Professor Bergius said "the process is not only suited to supply foodstuffs to countries lacking such but also gives an opportunity to turn a waste product into something useful...
...synthetic sawdust-food will cost very little, according to Professor Bergius, as the raw materials are now waste poroducts. After the cost of the initial plant installation the upkeep will be small, as the materials used in the process are fully recoverable and can be used over and over again. Even the fuel for use in the plant is obtained from a waste by-product of the sawdust. The final result is a yield of fully 100 percent...
...present, Dr. Bergius stated, the product was used mostly as fodder for animals, but when necessary it could be converted into food for human consumption...