Wartime Population Faced Eating Plankton

Plans were drawn up to harvest the microscopic creatures to sustain the country if food supplies were cut off during Second World War Photo: Alamy

Wartime Population Faced 'Eating Plankton To Avert Food Shortages' -- The Telegraph

Britain's wartime population would have been fed plankton by scientists under proposals to avert critical food shortages, newly discovered documents have disclosed.

Plans were drawn up to harvest the microscopic creatures to sustain the country if food supplies were cut off during Second World War.

Secret letters between academics that proposed harvesting tons of protein-rich plankton from Scottish sea lochs have just been discovered.

They claimed the waters were "soup-like" in richness with nutritional material and that some types of plankton were quite "tasty."

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My Comment: At least the Brits had that option .... many had no option for food at all during the Second World War.