Word: cattlemen
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America's carnivores should have no beef with meat prices. According to the National Cattlemen's Association survey of supermarkets in 19 cities, the average price per lb. of six cuts of beef was just $3.12 this month, the lowest level since July. Because the beef supply remains high and wholesale prices are down, many grocers are able to feature meat at significant discounts. Cow-nnoisseurs take note: the six cuts included in the survey are regular and lean ground beef, boneless round steak, boneless top sirloin, T-bone steak and boneless chuck roll roast...
...RANGE WARS (PBS, Aug. 6, 9 p.m. on most stations). The usually mild- mannered National Audubon Society got into hot water with cattlemen (and the Ford Motor Co., which pulled its ads from an earlier showing on TBS) with this hourlong report on the dispute between environmentalists and ranchers over public grazing land in the American Southwest...
...Agriculture Department also prefers a looser definition of "low fat" than the one favored by the FDA. The tough FDA standard, charges Gary Wilson of the National Cattlemen's Association, would mean that "you won't have any meat items being able to meet the criteria." Such an impossible standard would destroy the incentive for the meat industry to produce reduced-fat beef and pork, says Wilson, and the USDA is inclined to agree. The American Heart Association plans to lobby Congress if the USDA regulations don't match...
Then there are Gilberto's cousin Jaime Raul Orjuela Caballero and his three brothers, who are prominent impresarios of concerts and sporting events in ! Cali, travel frequently to New York City and have offices in Los Angeles. Ivan Urdinola Grajales and his younger brother Fabio, cattlemen and landowners from the northern Cauca Valley, are said to be exploring a regional television network. Pacho Herrera, believed to be the son of Benjamin Herrera Zuleta, an Afro-Colombian smuggler known as the "Black Pope," is a wealthy valley rancher with business interests in New York...
...restricting cattle grazing on public lands during the high-risk months, closing some public grazing lands altogether and creating a livestock-free zone around the park. There are also humane, if artificial, ways of controlling the herds, such as using cattle dogs to keep the bison in the park. Cattlemen oppose a plan to reintroduce wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem to help restore a natural predator for the bison on the ground that the wolves would soon be preying on cattle herds...