The Services' Food-Ration
The cut in the services' food-rations will be welcomed not because anyone would grudge soldiers or sailors or airmen an Ounce of the sustenance they need, but because the evidence Is strong that the army in particular has been getting con- siderably more than it either needs or desires. In addition male and female members of the services in sedentary occupa- tions will be reduced to civilian rations, the administrative difficulties in the way of this reform having apparently been overcome. At the same time a prospective cut of 50 per cent. Itt rations for all live-stock (with certain exceptions) from April 1st will force on farmers a milk-and-meat policy which no doubt best suits the needs of the country in this emergency. Dairy herds are to be kept up, but all bullocks have to be slaughtered early. It will, indeed, be not merely a milk-and- meat but a milk-and-veal policy. The wisdom of it depends on estimates of the length of the war. On the short view we save not only imports of feeding-stuffs but imports of meat by the slaughter of home stocks, and that just at a time when the submarine-menace is likely to be more serious. That is fully Justifiedf so far as 1941 is concerned. But what of 1942?
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