WWII - the man who eats grass, Mr J. R. B. Branson

Mr J. R. B. Branson, who advocated a diet of grass to counter food shortages during the Second World War. The Bystander magazine ran a double page spread on him and his views. Picture shows him creating an appetite by mowing the grass and bagging the sweepings ready to take indoors for preparation

Branson Collecting Eccentric Grass-eating Idea Mowing Rationing Rations Shortages

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