Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Food is rationed, and so is gasoline. For Christmas each Cuban child was allotted three toys. Despite cloth rationing, some Habaneras manage to look surprisingly chic, sewing their own miniskirts and making their own net stockings. Eating out is expensive and popular, and when a restaurant adds a new dish to the standard menu of fish and rice, the news spreads quickly. Cubans call Havana La Parásita, the parasite living off the land. Each year the city dies a little more but, for the regime, Havana is not where the fate of Communism on the island will...
...this fashion would be acceptable to the average American male, and whether his average wife would go along with it, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Irvine H. Page organized a federally financed study of 2,000 men who lived for up to two years on specially prepared foods. One thing that the Cleveland test proved was that the U.S. food industry has no difficulty in preparing such foods, and can certainly do so at a profit, provided there is sufficient consumer demand. It also proved that the diet was effective in lowering the men's blood levels...
...average man tell how much polyunsaturated fat he is getting? That is difficult, says Furman, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has forbidden food manufacturers to state the polyunsaturated fat content on the labels of their cooking oils and margarines. The FDA contends that such a statement is meant as a health claim, and would be so regarded by consumers. The ban, says Furman, denies the buyer information to which he is entitled...
...things space people are asked to explain is how we can let ourselves pay billions of dollars to keep a couple of individuals up for a few hours when that money could be putting food in the mouths now of now starving people all over the world and even here in the U.S.A...
...conference also felt that the Department of Agriculture has been more concerned with the problems of farmers than with the distribution of food surpluses to the poor. Since programs such as the Food Stamp must be applied for many persons have not been benefiting from them because of ignorance and indifference on the part of the countries...