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Picture No 12907085
Date 1939
Description WWII - the man who eats grass, Mr J. R. B. Branson
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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 Mr Branson pointing out his various stored boxes of dried grass cuttings, all carefully labelled with things like, "Bowling green short 1938" or "Dried grass, 1938".
Source Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 1 November 1939
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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