Even in England and France and Italy,
which are not inclosed, as Belgium is, in a
merciless ring of steel, there is only bread
enough for the people to keep alive because
of the voluntary sharing with them by an-
other nation which is commonly interested
with them in the prosecution of a great strug-
gle for liberty.
In each country of the world to-day the
food difficulties described by Wesley obtain in
some measure, but above all these difficulties
is the far greater one of the division among
nations of a greatly diminished food supply.
It is America's special and extraordinary re-
sponsibility in connection with this greatest
of all food problems ever known that de-
mands to-day so much thought and work and
personal sacrifice on the part of all of our
people.
And this problem will not pass immediately
with the passing of the war. The exhaustion
of all food stocks and the underfeeding for a
long period of hundreds of millions of people
will insure an extraordinary food demand for
a number of years to come after peace has
been made. Combined with this world-hun-
INTRODUCTION" 9
ger will be a shortage of world-shipping, and
at the same time there will be great demands
on this shortened shipping for the repatriation
of millions of soldiers and the carrying of
millions of tons of raw materials and ma-
chines to stripped countries that they may
rehabilitate their industries. The ships can-
not all be used to carry food.
So there must be food economy not only
now but for years to come. We in America
must save food not only that the allied na-
tions may be kept alive now, but after the
war. Our food problem has only been partly
formulated so far. We must begin to try to
formulate it in terms more nearly complete.
It is not only a problem of to-day; it is a
problem of to-morrow as well. And we shall
do well to recognize that now.
Vernon Kellogg,
U. S. Food Administration.
THOUGHTS
ON THE PRESENT
SCARCITY
O F
PROVISIONS.
•^i^^foftt^
LONDON:
Printed by R. HAWES, in Lamb-Street, facing
Cri/jpin-Streef, near the Market, in Spital-^Mj,
MDCCLXXIII.
II
12 ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK
THOUGHTS, ^r.
ANY excellent things have
been lately publifhed, con-
cerning the prefent Scarcity
of Provifions, And many
Caufes have been afligned for it, by
Men of Experience and Refledlon.
But may it not be obferved, there is
fomething wanting ftlll, in moft of
thofe Publications ? One Writer af-
figns and infifts on one Caufe ; ano-
ther on one or two more. But who
afligns all the Caufes that manifeflly
concur, to produce this melancholy
Effect ? At the fame time pointing
B out
ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK 13
( 4 )
out, how each particular Caufe aiFe^ls
the Price of each particular Sort of
Provifion ?
I would willingly offer to candid
and benevolent Men, a few Hints on
this important Subject ; Propofing a
few Queftions, and fubjoining to each
what feems to be the plain and di-
rect Anfwer.
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Presented as published in 1918. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Even in England and France and Italy, which are not inclosed, as Belgium is, in a merciless ring of steel, there is only bread enough for the people to keep alive because of the voluntary sharing with them by another nation which is commonly interested with them in the prosecution of a great struggle for liberty.
In each country of the world to-day the food difficulties described by Wesley obtain in some measure, but above all these difficulties is the far greater one of the division among nations of a greatly diminished food supply. It is America's special and extraordinary responsibility in connection with this greatest of all food problems ever known that demands to-day so much thought and work and personal sacrifice on the part of all of our people.
And this problem will not pass immediately with the passing of the war. The exhaustion of all food stocks and the underfeeding for a long period of hundreds of millions of people will insure an extraordinary food demand for a number of years to come after peace has been made. Combined with this world-hun-
INTRODUCTION 9
ger will be a shortage of world-shipping, and at the same time there will be great demands on this shortened shipping for the repatriation of millions of soldiers and the carrying of millions of tons of raw materials and machines to stripped countries that they may rehabilitate their industries. The ships cannot all be used to carry food.
So there must be food economy not only now but for years to come. We in America must save food not only that the allied nations may be kept alive now, but after the war. Our food problem has only been partly formulated so far. We must begin to try to formulate it in terms more nearly complete. It is not only a problem of to-day; it is a problem of to-morrow as well. And we shall do well to recognize that now.
Vernon Kellogg, U. S. Food Administration.
THOUGHTS
ON THE PRESENT
SCARCITY
O F
PROVISIONS.
•^i^^foftt^
LONDON:
Printed by R. HAWES, in Lamb-Street, facing Cri/jpin-Streef, near the Market, in Spital-^Mj,
MDCCLXXIII.
THOUGHTS, ^r.
ANY excellent things have been lately publifhed, concerning the prefent Scarcity of Provifions, And many Caufes have been afligned for it, by Men of Experience and Refledlon. But may it not be obferved, there is fomething wanting ftlll, in moft of thofe Publications ? One Writer affigns and infifts on one Caufe ; another on one or two more. But who afligns all the Caufes that manifeflly concur, to produce this melancholy Effect ? At the fame time pointing B out
( 4 )
out, how each particular Caufe aiFe^ls the Price of each particular Sort of Provifion ?
I would willingly offer to candid and benevolent Men, a few Hints on this important Subject ; Propofing a few Queftions, and fubjoining to each what feems to be the plain and direct Anfwer.