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British Food Journal Volume 86 Issue 4 1984

British Food Journal

ISSN: 0007-070X

Article publication date: 1 April 1984

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Abstract

From earliest times the land and all it produced to feed and sustain those who dwelt on it was mankind's greatest asset. From the Biblical “land of milk and honey”, down through history to the “country of farmers” visualised by the American colonists when they severed the links with the mother country, those who had all their needs met by the land were blessed — they still are! The inevitable change brought about by the fast‐growing populations caused them to turn to industry; Britain introduced the “machine age” to the world; the USA the concept of mass production — and the troubles and problems of man increased to the present chaos of to‐day. There remained areas which depended on an agri‐economy — the granary countries, as the vast open spaces of pre‐War Russia; now the great plains of North America, to supply grain for the bread of the peoples of the dense industrial conurbations, which no longer produced anything like enough to feed themselves.

Citation

(1984), "British Food Journal Volume 86 Issue 4 1984", British Food Journal, Vol. 86 No. 4, pp. 93-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb011759

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