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Show Many Britons Disdain Meal Vegetarians Calm As Ration Lowered LONDON. Most of Great Britain Brit-ain is worrying about the shortage of meat, but a smug, self-satisfied and apparently well-nourished minority mi-nority is complacent and unconcerned uncon-cerned and quite superior to it all. The indifferent folks are the vegetarians vege-tarians of the land, many of them associated in about 40 societies. Ration Lowered These societies are fairly popping pop-ping with new business as Britain's meat ration sags. Owing to the failure of meat deliveries from Argentina, the ration has been lowered low-ered to 10 pence (17 cents) a week and a fifth of that quantity must be corned beef, of which there is a rapidly diminishing supply. . Consequently there is some point i to being a vegetarian, because officially of-ficially established vegetarians get more cheese, vegetable fats, and shelled nuts. However, Roy Walker, secretary of the London Vegetarian Society, isn't especially happy about the new business. That's because he doesn't want Britain to become a nation of fake vegetarians. He I wants members with their hearts in the movement, as well as their stomachs. Vegetarian List Doubled "We want the convinced vegetarians, vege-tarians, not those who will backslide back-slide the moment a little more flesh is available," Walker says. The ministry of food has registered regis-tered about 107,000 vegetarians, about double the wartime number. It is obvious Walker said, that there are some bogus vegetarians among them. "We can't in good conscience, put on a membership campaign, although this is good weather for it," Walker commented. Neverthel"iss, he added, vegetarianism vege-tarianism is growing like a healthy plant, and once it is adopted on a substantial basis he claims Great Britain, or certainly the empire, can become self-sufficient as to food. i Vegetarians, more than others, were amused by a butcher who displayed in his shop window the weekly fresh meat ration tor one person. It was a modest mutton chop, over which he had placed a 4-inch magnifying glass. It cost eight pence (13.36 cents). |