The Miller's Mystique
SIR,—Reading Lord Carrington's speech, when replying to the reasoned objections to white bread, one wonders what are the interests of those who brief him. How does it come about that the Ministry of Agriculture's Parliamentary Secretary can declare that whole-wheat bread is " less palatable " than white bread, when all who eat whole wheat bread are of the reverse opinion, although this may have been otherwise • before they took to eating natural bread ? Perhaps his advisers have reached this strange conclusion from the figures of the relative consumption of white and whole-wheat bread; in which case, One wonders if they have taken into consideration such essential facts as the higher price of whole-wheat bread and its more nourishing and satisfying character.
Lord Carrington states that there are " problems of digestibility," implying that whole-wheat bread is indigestible, whereas it is white bread that is indigestible and, being without the natural roughage of whole-wheat, is a common cause of constipation. He states that whole-wheat bread " does not .keep well," implying that this is bad thing, whereas this is because it is a " live " food and its valuable active qualities have not been killed with preservatives. In any case, if a housekeeper cannot gauge a household's bread consumption, she need not lay- in large stocks and can buy half-loaves.
Lord Carrington further, states that "wholemeal flour, and bread' will be " freely available and would still be sold at the same price a national bread." The facts are that whole-wheat bread has now gong up to Is. 3d. a loaf, as compared with 7id. to 81c1. per loaf of whit.
or national bread.—Yours faithfully, ' ADRIAN BRUNEL. First House, Bulstrode Way, Gerrard's Cross.
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