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...President of the U.S. had a bright idea. He told his press conference that he thought it might be a good idea for the U.S. to have one meatless day a week. He and New Zealand's visiting Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, had figured out that 30 or 40 ships would be set free for other uses if the U.S., instead of far-off New Zealand, Australia and Argentina, sent meat to Britain...
...President's blithe idea struck consternation into WPB's Food Requirements Committee. Just three hours before the committee had met and decided that meatless days were maybe unnecessary and certainly useless ("If there isn't enough meat for everyone to eat all he wants, it doesn't make much difference on what days he eats...
Rationing is one of three ways of keeping demand down to supply. The others: 1) meatless days (if people don't eat more on other days), 2) letting meat prices go up until people don't want to buy so much. Fact is, those who have eaten much meat are going to eat less, and those who have eaten little are going to eat more-for meatless days, rationing and wartime redistribution of income each in its way has a substantially similar levelling effect. And there will be only a small war sacrifice involved. The nation...
...Washington was optimistic. By & large, announced the Department of Agriculture, there was little cause for alarm about food for the U.S. and United Nations-if the weather behaves, if there are enough farm workers, if transportation is available. There is no prospect now of the 1917-18 meatless, wheatless, or otherless days; the total food supply is expected to be the largest ever; plenty of wheat, fresh fruits and vegetables, fluid milk and cream, chicken, eggs, beef, lamb & mutton. And the United Nations have got more than 5,000,000,000 lb. of our food since April...
Soldiers get little meat, but that is often nutritious heart, liver, kidneys, lungs. Since no restrictions are placed on food for the Army, Dr. Gerson thinks that meatless rations are not due to economic necessity, "but [to] the newer knowledge of the science of nutrition." German military doctors, for instance, claim that vegetarianism cures neuroses and depression, makes for greater efficiency. But U.S. scientists generally believe that vegetable proteins are poor substitutes for good red meat in building new body tissues. In the U.S. Army, soldiers get about 10 ounces of meat...