In view of these statements, what could be more natural
or more reasonable than that loyal and Ministerially instructed persons like ourselves should suggest that we should only use grain and sugar and other foods for food purposes, and should point out that they ought not, while the shortage lasted, to be turned into what the Committee of the Royal Society had declared not to be food, except in a wholly Pickwickian sense ? Now, however, if we are to believe Mr. Meadows and the Daily Mail and many other " anti-faddists," these plain conclusions from Ministerial premisses are fads which require immediate sup- pression. We bow our heads in bewilderment. Apparently we ought to have known that only Ministers have a right to draw conclusions. The rest of us must wait and sea, and not hastily assume that beleaguered cities stand in need of food conservation.
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