Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon Administration officials always expected a "bulge" in some prices after the expiration of last year's freeze, but what has been happening at the supermarket meat counter looks more like an upheaval. Retail beef and lamb prices have reached 20-year highs; pork prices, which slipped 16.6% early last year, are again climbing toward record levels. Just since the start of 1972, a Manhattan housewife has had to pay 12.6% more for a pound of pork chops...
...livestock. Faced with increased wage and feed costs over the past few years, farmers have trimmed the size of their herds and litters. Now that a bumper corn harvest has made feed cheaper again, cattlemen find it profitable to hold their steers in feed lots longer to wait for beef prices to go still higher. In January, beef production ran 3% behind demand and hog output lagged 17%. Substituting other foods is not the housewives' answer either. The USDA estimates that all retail food prices will rise...
...Beverly Russell, the Bunny Mother at Miami Beach's Playboy Plaza, who had her rent hiked, to Maggie Murray, a ghetto grandmother in Orlando, who struggles to meet her $26-a-month electricity bill. At the same time, cattle farmers in central Florida worry about the price of beef. Drugs, too, are of great concern in Florida. "The root of most of our crime is drugs," insists an official of the Tampa Chamber of Commerce...
Young wiener wolfers today, say C.U. testers, are eating products that are only 60% as nutritious as the ones that carried dear old Dad through the Depression. The cost of protein in frankfurters (mainly beef and pork) is now $7 to $8 per pound-about one-third the current price of silver...
...obvious, if devious, solution. The breeders shipped French cows to Britain, where they were artificially inseminated. Their fertilized ova were removed and transplanted into the wombs of local Jersey and Friesian heifers. Then the surrogate British mothers were shipped to New Zealand, where officials passed them without the slightest beef...