§ 31. Mrs. Mannasked the Minister of Food what steps are taken by his Department to prevent greengrocers from including decayed vegetables and fruit in their sales to housewives.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeThe remedy is in the housewife's own hands. She can and should refuse to buy any such produce.
§ Mrs. MannCould the Minister say, then, where the housewife can get vegetables that are fresh? Does he not think that it would be very easy to insist that greengrocers, like butchers, should not be permitted to sell for human consumption that which is unfit?
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeI should have thought the hon. Lady would not have gone to the same shop twice, if that were so. Surely it is in the hands of the housewives. I cannot imagine a greengrocer staying very long in business if the products he sells are as the hon. Lady says they are.