THE CASEIN PROJECT

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26605, 15 December 1951, Page 3

THE CASEIN PROJECT

Sir, —lt is with great amusement that then producers sit over their breakfast tables reading the comments of the Mayor (Mr Macfarlane, M.P.), Mr Warner, and most of all, the comments of our dear editor on Mr McFadden's casein project. It is only but a few weeks that the same three felt that they had the producers right where they wanted them. They were going to have milk with nothing less than 4.3 test, etc., and now they seem to be rather afraid that they are not going to have milk at all. They have ■only one alternative, and that is to run a herd of Jerseys in Hagley Park, erect a first class dairy, putting in a bucket plant (a billy plant will do during winter months)—for the Jerseys don’t like Canterbury’s frosts—and take turns at milking lor the city after their public duties.—Yours, etc., JUST ANOTHER PRODUCER. December 14, 1951.

Sir, —“He who grows wheat when he can grow wool is a fool," says “D.S.R.” and he who sends milk to the town supply when it can be made into casein will soon be just as much of a fool, if casein realises the price now hoped for. The Prime Minister’s wheat announcement, and the reaction to it, are the most emphatic endorsement of your argument against the casein project—quite apart from the morality of making plastics out of a food with the world underfed. But morality is a poor argument and conscience is out of date.—Yours, etc., R.D. December 14, 1951.