Birds as Food 



starving : " The English may print as many 

 braggart statistics as they choose about the 

 failure of the German U-boats, but a glance 

 at the English newspapers reveals a far 

 different situation,f or in their editorial columns 

 the prevailing terror of starvation is palpably 

 evident. Unrest, discontent, and anxiety 

 are making themselves felt more acutely day 

 by day, and already the most unlikely articles 

 are being seized on with avidity for food. 

 In London they are now eating smoked SEA- 

 GULLS, not only the home product, but also 

 great quantities that are being imported from 

 New Zealand ready cured. Loud and bitter 

 are the complaints about the greasy flavour 

 of these birds, but the newspapers are 

 rising to the occasion and filling column on 

 column with the most impossible recipes to 

 show the wretched islanders that SEA-GULL 

 may be made as tasty as TURKEY OR GOOSE " 

 (Daily Express, 28.iii.i7). 



Early in 1917 orders were issued forbid- 

 ding the rearing of PHEASANTS and the feed- 

 ing of GAME on any grains or any other 

 products required for food or feeding stuffs ; 

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