WORLD PLAN FOR FOOD

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 39, 14 January 1944, Page 5

WORLD PLAN FOR FOOD

BRITISH LABOUR VIEWS.

RUGBY. Jan. 12. Urging that a world plan for food would be tho first stop toward a new and better world and that Britain should take the lead in the matter, the Labour Party has issued a pamphlet entitled, "The Nation s I'ood, based on a memorandum by Sir John Boyd Orr, who has been a member of national and international commissions on nutrition, and is not a member of the Labour Party. The pamphlet says that as recently as 1942 committee members of the House of Lords estimated the following increases were necessary to bring tho diet of the whole population up to the full health standard: Fruit, 70 per cent.; milk, 6»; eggs, 60; vegetables, 60; meat, 25. The report suggests that a permanent food commission of recognised authorities on nutrition, agriculture and tlie attribution of finance, be appointed by tho Ministry of Food, and charged with the task of seeing that the national larder contains sufficient basic foods to meet the nutritional requirements ot the whole population, and that distribution and prices aro arranged so that every family can obtain a diet adequate for health. , , . - . Tho pamphlet advocates that at least ono adequate moal daily should bo provided to all school children, the extension of communal restaurants at lea-t till food is so plentiful and tho standard of living so high that every family can have the opportunity occasionally of dining out. It a'.so favours measures to ensure one good moal in all works and factories. .