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...Purina. The seizures were accomplished under a 1945 labor law that allows government intervention to prevent a plant from closing. The hardware company had shut its doors when credit tightened and home construction slowed after Allende's election. The feed company had laid off ten workers at its broiler farm after disease twice decimated the chickens. Allende used a similar 1953 law to expropriate the country's largest textile factory, charging that it suffered from bad management. Foreign investors were worried that the musty laws would become standard vehicles for quick takeovers, bypassing compensation requirements...
...waste disposal, of course, is not confined to cattle. Dogs do their part in dirtying cities (TIME, July 20), and pigs and chickens add to the problem in the country. Pigs are still bred on some 1,000,000 farms, and more than 80 million are sold each year. Broiler production soared from 630 million birds in 1950 to about 2.6 billion in 1967. Confined like cattle, pigs and chickens produce mountains of wastes...
Other ventures are more down to earth. Pillsbury has gone into the broiler field (cutup chickens), and has begun to market dehydrated cake mixes. Unlike the conventional powdered mixes, they contain all the necessary ingredients thoroughly mixed into a "batter," and the lovin' housewife has only to add water and eggs. Last year the company acquired the nationally franchised chain of Burger King diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion...
...digestion. Affronting his gourmet tastes at one restaurant was a mousse au chocolat crowned with whipped cream and as a final insult, perhaps, a maraschino cherry. At another establishment, Claiborne complained that a wedge of Camembert cheese had been served cold. The waiter offered to "run it under the broiler." "Now I ask you," wrote the exasperated critic, "isn't that worth the price of the meal...
...modern-day preoccupation with sex enrages Muggeridge. "Like a deep-frozen, broiler-reared, cellophane-wrapped wing of chicken," he wrote, "American women tend to be more appetizing to the sight than to the taste." He is devoutly pessimistic. "The concept of this world as a wilderness, and of human life as short and brutish, fits the circumstances of most people most of the time." And he despises all schemes for human betterment. "Deliverance from happiness would seem to be the greatest need of mankind today...