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...PEOPLE magazine. Along with the glitz and macho, though, the industry emphasizes that cattle are now bred leaner and cuts of beef are trimmed of excess fat. Today, consumers are told, a 3-oz. serving of beef contains the same level of cholesterol as an equivalent amount of chicken...
...major source of fat consumed by Americans is still red meat, another fact the current barrage of ads ignores. "Beef is not one of the high- cholesterol foods," observes Dr. Connor. However, "it has a great deal of saturated fat. Chicken has a lot less." The public gets a bum steer as well from the industry's use of a 3-oz. serving as the basis for nutritional information. The average portion is 4.7 oz. for a hamburger and 5.7 oz. for a steak...
Nutritionists deride the pork commercials as hogwash. The meat may be close in color to poultry, but the average serving of pork contains at least twice as much fat as does a piece of turkey or chicken. Pork is not a white meat, no matter how much "producers want to distance themselves from beef, which they perceive as a loser," notes Liebman. The rehabilitation of real food may have begun, say health experts, but it still has a long...
...Chicken power," says Ron Oest, exulting in his chicken house in northern New Mexico. "That's what keeps our winter water supply from freezing. See, they roost right under the tank." Up on the roost, two dozen hens ride out the winter, unwittingly warming a thousand gallons of mountain stream water stored in the black tank that bellies down from the ceiling. It is an efficient use of passive poultry energy, harnessed by a resourceful man who supports his family handsomely on $5,000 a year...
Under the hard-driving Abdic, Agrokomerc grew from a tiny milk-processing plant to a conglomerate with 13,500 employees, 1985 sales of $183 million, and products ranging from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to a prosperous community of whitewashed brick homes. But it turned out that Abdic had financed much of the expansion through a type of fraud that has become common in Yugoslavia's byzantine financial system...