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...beneath the jargon and gossip, a serious as well as topical undercurrent can be felt. Should animals be killed to feed humans? In the long run, is the consumption of 10 Ibs. of grain to produce 1 Ib. of beef an equitable or sensible ratio? Is the meatless meal a fashion, an ideal or a specter? These were once the narrow concerns of Victorian freethinkers like George Bernard Shaw or of pop nutritionists like Adelle Davis. But suddenly, in many societies, the question of a high-protein vegetable diet has be come literally a matter of life and death...
There are two exceptions to the general rule in my town the grain elevators side-by-side like five non-filtered cigarettes on end and red and white striped white striped chimney of the Veterans Administration...
...open country. It cleaves the dilapidated edge off of Topeka with one arching stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits, my car radio falls silent...
...basement of Bridgeman's Restaurant, the drivers and their backers were trading tales and plotting strategy while downing tumblers of bourbon and Grain Belt beer. They also mulled over the tout sheet of Local Handicapper Duane Krause, who goes by the pen name "Timber Savage." Savage and most of the smart money favored George Attla, a lame, one-eyed Athapascan Indian from Fairbanks, Alaska. Others leaned toward Harris Dunlap, a former art teacher from Bakers Mills in New York's Adirondacks...
...economy is agriculture. China makes large grain purchases abroad because it is more economical to import some grain for coastal regions than ship it from the remote interior, but the People's Republic is self-sufficient in food. With 16 million new mouths to feed each year, however, it currently uses up at least half of its annual 4% increase in grain production just to keep pace with the population growth. Not bad-but not good, either, particularly since Peking needs an agriculture surplus to gain foreign exchange (through exports), which it needs in turn to finance the building...