Show bread consumption reported on decline CHICAGO bread long known as the staff of life has been slipping in public esteem for 37 years a report by national federation of millers discloses in 1919 the average american consumed pounds of wheat the report shows while now the figure has dropped to an all time low of contending that people arent eating enough bread and other wheat products the association plans to launch a two year campaign to restore wheat as the no I 1 ingredient in the diet of the american people |