Food For The Hungry
Sir, —It was a matter for great thankfulness to read on Saturday of new advances—no fewer than three in the one issue—being made towards feeding the hungry: (1) a low-cost rice substitute, “batina seed,” produceable from local food, developed at Michigan University by Professor L. E. Brownail who believes It “a great boon to malnutrition.” (2) The discovery by Dr Allison, at Lincoln, of the use of lucerne with which, as a source of protein, he finds no grain or seed crops can compare. (3) The D.5.1.R., Wellington, has found that the fleece of a sheep is five times as rich in protein as the meat, and is even now seeking the means of converting it into food. Today, again, we learn that even the humble grass is to be pressed into the lifesaving service. Scientists are really coming to grips with a problem more important to mankind than the conquest of space.—Yours, etc., D.T.
August 21, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31765, 23 August 1968, Page 12
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