§ 60. Captain Pluggeasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, as representing the Ministry of Food, what is the opinion of his scientific advisers with regard to the comparative food value of meat extracts, pressed meat, canned meat, chilled and frozen meat; and to what extent it would be possible at the present time to save shipping space by processing the greater part of the meat before it is shipped to this country from South America and other distant places?
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe Scientific Adviser to the Ministry does not attach importance to meat extracts, but he has advised certain measures in regard to the other forms of meat mentioned in the Question, which will result in economies in shipping space.