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...With a 12 per cent inflation rate, the negligible savings from the menu change will quickly be eaten...
...According to the Department of Agriculture, what per cent of all American pet food is currently eaten by people...
...demand for food and natural resources has once again outstripped production; this time, he thinks, for good, not only because of exponential population growth, but because "rising affluence is emerging as a major claimant of world resources." We have a food shortage today not only because population growth has eaten away the gains from the Green Revolution Third World hybrid seed program, but because rich countries are upgrading their diets. Each year at least eight million tons of grain--enough to feed thirty five million people well--are diverted from human to animal mouths to provide more meat...
...from. The new fasts, for example, have been called by many churchmen, both Catholic and Protestant, for Wednesdays, a traditional Christian fast day once associated with Judas' plot to betray Christ. The goal is not usually a complete fast but a general cutback in the amount of food eaten. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations will launch an antihunger campaign this month that includes, among other things, a recommendation for "un-dinners," complete with programs and speakers but no food. Perhaps curiously, considering their meatless Friday tradition, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Washington last month...
Even New Orleans is infested. An eleven-man team of experts recently spent a month trying to rid the City Park's lagoons of gators that had already eaten all the park's ducks and were working their way through its fish and turtles. Panicked phone callers-as many as seven a week-report alligators in residential districts, even in the affluent sections bordering Bayou...