The Food Now Being Destroyed for Beer
Look at the actual facts about beer alone. We will ignore distilling, as it gives us munitions and yeast. Had the Government tried to solve the yeast question it could have solved it easily in these three years; it would have had no more trouble with that problem than Russia and Canada and America have had. But as the Government is still investigating the yeast question, we will confine our figures to beer.
Brewers are destroying 450,000 4-lb. loaves a day.
This year’s food destruction for beer alone will equal five weeks’ bread rations and four weeks’ sugar rations for the whole United Kingdom.
We have seven critical weeks in this summer, and this year’s destruction of food would carry us through.
Beer alone is taking 10 pounds of sugar a year from every kitchen cupboard, and an ounce of sugar a day from every soldier.
That is what drink is doing at this moment with the shadow of famine creeping on.