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...ecologically fragile, reports AID, "mistakes in the use of soil, water and vegetation are magnified." Trees have been cut down for fuel, savannah grass has been replaced by seasonal crops, and available ground water has been squandered. Most damaging of all, the inhabitants have allowed their huge herds of livestock to denude the land through overgrazing. These practices, combined with the drought, have killed off the natural vegetation and allowed the Sahara to creep southward-in some places, says AID, by "as much as 30 miles a year...
Just as employees work for the capitalists, so too the money squeezed from their wages must be made to "work" in the stock and commodities markets, driving up the price of livestock feed so high, for example, that meat prices go out of sight...
...true. After a summer of roller coasting up and down, the Wholesale Price Index for September dropped 1.5%, seasonally adjusted-its steepest slide in a quarter-century. Prices of farm goods, the worst culprits in this year's inflationary saga, led the decline, dropping 5.2%. Costs for livestock, corn, vegetables, fruit, live poultry and eggs were all substantially lower...
...newsprint that it had a higher content of crude protein than dried beef, soybean meal or skimmed-milk powder. Though the Missouri scientists do not suggest that their old-newsprint disposal scheme could ever fill human food needs, it could provide a useful high-protein feed for livestock. In fact, some University of Missouri cows are already munching on algae-laden newsprint...
...also to expand its historic role as a world supplier of food-to the benefit of everybody. The present bind is all too real, but it is largely a legacy of the restrictive policies of the past. Once that legacy is shaken off, U.S. farmers can raise enough livestock, wheat and oil seeds to satisfy their fellow citizens' desire for good food at reasonable prices and meet all foreseeable foreign demand too. In a burst of optimism last week, Bud Frazier, vice president of Hennessy & Associates, a commodity brokerage firm in Chicago, declared: "This country can produce more stuff...