FOOD SUPPLY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —A remark in one of your leaders today deserves more serious consideration than many will, I am afraid, give it at first sight. I refer to your suggestion that the Government ought to establish factories for tho manufacture of the new milk product, plasmon. There arc many people who believe, from experience, that skim milk contains all (or nearly all) the nutriment required for the human body; and it is .claimed that plasmon (made from skim milk) contains all tho valuable food elements of milk. At present, in New Zealand, we every day cast to the dogs—or the pigs—enough milk to make a large quantity of plasmon biscuits, or powder. These biscuits are. I understand, pretty dear, and if the manufacture is not a very difficult matter, it seems to me that the colony might not a. fair sum each year by manufacturing th°m for export. Wo have got past laughing at the idea of exporting frozen mutton, butter and poultry; may there not be. other foods that we can add to these?—l am, etc., MILK DRINKER.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12999, 15 December 1902, Page 9
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