ADEQUATE FOOD FOR

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22790, 14 January 1944, Page 5

ADEQUATE FOOD FOR

Aim Of British Labour Party

(Rec. 8.40 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 12. Urging that a world plan for food should be the first step towards 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 —• •• food." based on a memorandum by Sir John Boyd Orr, who has been a member of a number of National and International Commissions on Nutrition and is not a member of the Labour. .... Party. , The pamphlet says that as recently as 1942 a committee of members of the House of Lords estimated that the following increases were necessary to bring the diet of the whole population up to the full health standard— Fruit , . 70 per cent, milk 65 per cent, eggs 60 per cent, vegetables 60 per cent', 'meat 25 per cent. The report suggests that a permanent food commission of recognised authorities on nutrition, agriculture, distribution and finance should be appointed by the Ministry of Food and charged with the task of seeing that the national larder contains sufficient basic foods to meet the nutritional requirements of the whole population. and that distribution and prices are arranged so that every family can' obtain a diet adequate for health. The pamphlet advocates that at least one adequate meal daily be provided for all school children, and an extension of, communal restaurants at least until food is so plentiful and the standard of living so high that every family--can have the opportunity of occasion-, ally dining out. It also favours measures to ensure one good meal a day in all works and factories.