Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkably beautiful. There are gentle green hills, green with meadows and trees, green from the frequent afternoon rains. There are small cotton fields along the roads, and in September the open cotton bolls make the Black Belt look like a huge snowbank. In the open meadows there are fat black cattle grazing under "Eat More Beef" signs. A traveller on the main highways, looking just at the green hills and the cotton and the cattle, might think he had found the legendary pastoral American paradise...
...Pork Fat...
Other people die in the household. Four weeks ago, a three-month old baby died, lying alone on the parents' bed. The little girl had eaten nothing but pork fat in her short life; Mrs. Miller had no mild of her own to give the baby, and there was no money to buy milk from the store...
...Agriculture worker said last summer that somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of all black children in central Alabama suffer brain damage by the time they are five years old because of protein deficiency. Adult Negroes show the effect of another kind of malnutrition. A diet based on fat and carbohydrate produces bloated, formless women, and men who die twice as often of heart disease as whites...
Fatback, or "white meat," is the layer of fat between the pig's skin and its viscera. It is usually three or four inches thick, and it makes up the majority of a pig's bulk. It has, of course, a high caloric value, and is great for keeping human bodies alive at low cost. But steady meals of fatback, grits, and vegetables swimming in melted fatback are guaranteed to produce lethargy, ill health, and braindamaged children...