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Food stuff

Food stuff, the term ' foodstuff' is ambiguous. In one sense it has a narrow meaning and is limited to articles which are eaten as food for purposes of nutrition and nourishment and so would exclude condiments and spices such as yeast, salt, pepper, baking powder and turmeric. In a wider sense, it includes everything that goes in to the preparation of food proper (as understood in the narrow sense) to make it more palatable and digestible In my opinion the problems posed cannot be answered in the abstract and must be viewed in relation to its background and context, State of Bombay v. Virkumar Gulabchand Shah, AIR 1952 SC 335: (1952) SCR 877. [Essential Supplies (Temporary powers) Act, 1946, s. 2(9)]'Foodstuff' need not necessarily mean only the final food product which is consumed. It also includes raw food articles which may after processing be used as food by human beings, K. Janardhan Pillai v. Union of India, AIR 1981 SC 1485: (1981) 2 SCC 45: (1981) 2 SCR 676.Expression 'foodstuf...

Dharma

Dharma, dharma embraces every type of righteous conduct covering every aspect of life essential for the sustenance and welfare of the individual and the society and includes those rules which guide and enable those who believe in God and heaven to attain moksha (eternal bliss). Rules of dharma are meant to regulate the individual conduct, in such a way as to restrict the rights, liberty, interest and desires of an, individual as regards all matters to the extent necessary in the interest of other individuals, i.e., the society and at the same time making it obligatory for the society to safeguard and protect the individual in all respects through its social and political institutions. Shortly put, dharma regulates the mutual obligations of individual and the society. Therefore, it was stressed that protection of dharma was in the interest of both the individual and the society, A 'state of dharma' was required to be always maintained for peaceful coexistence and prosperity of all.Thoug...

Lichen

One of a class of cellular flowerless plants technically called Lichenes having no distinction of leaf and stem usually of scaly expanded frond like forms but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched They derive their nourishment from the air and generate by means of spores The species are very widely distributed and form irregular spots or patches usually of a greenish or yellowish color upon rocks trees and various bodies to which they adhere with great tenacity They are often improperly called rock moss or tree moss...

VerbarMammalia

The highest class of Vertebrata The young are nourished for a time by milk or an analogous fluid secreted by the mammary glands of the mother...

Meat

Food in general anything eaten for nourishment either by man or beast Hence the edible part of anything as the meat of a lobster a nut or an egg...

Nursing

Supplying or taking nourishment from or as from the breast as a nursing mother a nursing infant...

ment

A suffix denoting that which does a thing an act or process the result of an act or process state or condition as aliment that which nourishes ornament increment fragment piece broken segment abridgment act of abridging imprisonment movement adjournment amazement state of being amazed astonishment...

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