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...Jarosek, 71, belongs to the third generation of a Czech-American family to farm in the Taylor area, near Austin. In February he sold some of his small herd of cattle, which consisted of "45 mamas," as he puts it, for 65 [cents] a pound. A few weeks ago, he sold more for 29 [cents] a pound and then another few for 20'. He has 20 "mama cows" and little money left to buy feed. "This may be my last year," he says...
...says Spencer Hill, vice president of sales and marketing of Clover Club Foods, a $60 million manufacturer of salty snacks in Kaysville, Utah. "They want to be the only salted-snack company in the country." Another food-company executive says Frito-Lay fields marketing "warlords" assigned to ride herd on regional companies. "They are the best-run company in the food business," this executive says, without rancor. "They are terrific at what they are doing--and we don't want anything to do with them...
Every dairy farmer in the rest of the world realizes that "there but for the grace of God go I." It would be an unprecedented example of human brotherhood if each major dairy farmer outside Britain donated just under 2% of his herd to keep British farmers in business. Everyone would suffer a little, and no one would be wiped out by this tragedy. British beef could once again be consumed without fear. If nations can come to the rescue of others by waging war, why not a peacetime offensive? If animals can be shipped to zoos, it is certainly...
...anti-immigrant nativist sentiment that pervaded the United States in that era-some of which bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan and his herd of sheep-was one reason for the reluctance to absorb the homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines...
...people that are going mad. Livelihoods are being threatened by gossip." On Monday, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of the disease. The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill people who consume the diseased beef. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that economists project that slaughtering the British cow herd would reduce the GDP by as much as 0.5 percent. "Economically, slaughtering the entire herd would be a disaster...