Our national drink bill as it affects the nation's well-being : a series of letters to the "Times" and other newspapers together with original articles / by William Hoyle.

  • Hoyle, William, 1831-1886.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Our national drink bill as it affects the nation's well-being : a series of letters to the "Times" and other newspapers together with original articles / by William Hoyle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WASTE OF FOOD. grand total of grain or produce destroyed exceeding 1,200,000,000 4ft) loaves, or over 170 loaves per annum for every family in the United Kingdom. If these loaves were used as paving stones they would pave a road, 10 yards wide, upwards of 2000 miles long. If the loaves had to be baked in one shop, and 500 of them were baked each hour for 10 hours per day, and for six days per week, it would take the baker over 750 years to bake them. If this grain were taken and thrown into the sea we should be horrified; but it would be a great mercy thus to destroy it rather than make it into strong drink, for the waste of the food would be the whole of the evil. As it is, we destroy it by converting it into a maddening liquor which ruins and destroys the people. It were bad enough to destroy the grain, but it is infinitely worse to destroy the grain and ruin the people as well.