MEAT FOR PETS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 125, 22 February 1944, Page 3

MEAT FOR PETS

Butcher Says Animals May

Have Lean Time Commenting 'that the whole of the meat carcase is passed as fit for human consumption, a prominent Wellington -butcher states that he cannot see how any is going to be left over, for consumption by animals. He said that surely butchers would have sufficient problems with which to cope under the rationing scheme without having the burden of maintaining the family pets thrust upon them. The Rationing Controller, said this butcher, in referring to meat for animals, had said that types of meat less suitable for human consumption would be reserved by butchers for animals, so no difficulty should be experienced by members of the community in securing suitable meat for their pets without the surrender of coupons. “The provision of sufficient of this type of meat has been a bugbear to butchers for years,” said the Wellington retailer, “so much so that many butchers have been forced to kill carcases of a lower quality to provide the extra required for the family pets. With rationing and this avenue of supply closed under the rationing quota, the outlook for family pets is far from bright.”