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From Journal of Commerce, New York,
November SO. 1910.
SHORTAGE OF MEAT
MENACES ENGLAND
Likely to Lead to Profiteering on
Large Scale, Parliamentary
Secretary McCurdy to
Food MinUti-y Aver.
LONDON. Nov. 1 Parliamentary
Secretary MeCurdy to the Ministry of
Food, la addressing a meeting at
Loughborough charted that there I a
world shortage of neat.
1 want to apeak quite frankly aboat
the food problems, of thla eountry aa
they will affect the future coat of liv
ing." laid Mr. MeCurdy.
"Fires there la the problem of sap
llee. It If e.uite a mistake te think
that there are inexhauatible euppllee
of food in the world available for
our future needa. In the United
Statea the aurplua of foodstuffs that la
available for export to tbia country la
eteadily diminishing.
"Other countries from which we need
to draw our auppiiee have been ao dev
astated acd unsettled by the war ,
that for eome years they will be un-
able to aend us anything, and perhupe
unable to aupply their own needs fully.
"Future sources , of food supply I'or
Great Britain have yet to be estab
lished. New sources of aupply have to .
be found, and a far-sighted policy ia
necessary if we are to avoid disturb
anca of our supplies and a further dis
turbance of our industrial life in a few
yeara hence.
"We shall have to grow more food at
home; we ahall have to encourage the
development of food production ia the
British Empire, not aa a matter of
preference but as a matter of necessity.
"Do not imagine that the United
Statea or Scutb America, or all the
existing resources of the British Empire,
are sufficient for our future needs or
that a policy of free trade and laisses
aire will aee us through. It will not.
"Already in 1914 the home production
of beef and mutton in the United
Statea ' waa insuff ioient for the home
, consumption. If we , take ' all kinds of
, meat produced in the United Statea
1 the figures suggest that the United
Statea will in a measurable number of
' yeara eeaae to be an exporting eoun
try and be a competitor with ua , for
suppliea from other countriea.
"For aome yeara Europe will need to
import far larger quantitiea of meat
if the peoplea oft Europe are to be prop
erly fed.
"Before the war we imported into
thia country a million tons of meat
and bacon every year. Home supplies
amounted to 1,600,000 tons. Our home
, suppliea are down, owing to reduced
stocks of pigs and sheep. "We shall
want to import more than , a million
tons of. neat next year, and the rest
of Europe will want at least three
' million tons, or as much of that as
Europe can find means to pay for.
"There will not be enough meat ia
the world available to aupply the needa
of Europe next year.' All the export
, able surplus meat suppliea of Austra
lian, New Zealand, South America and
South Africa together amount to no
more than 1.210,000 tons.
"The total is barely sufficient to meet
the neede of the United Kingdom
alone, to say nothing of any one else.
"A scramble for meat imports 'ap
pears inevitable if Europe - has any
money next year with which to buy
food. It ia a situation full of menace,''
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