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...also become an exporter, and so has Bolivia, which ran up a 22,000-ton surplus last year and is trying to teach its Indian population to like sugar. Chile now saves $20 million annually by refining domestic sugar beets, has also fattened its cattle industry by feeding livestock the refinery residue...
...soon be even more celebrated than Sean Connery, who plays Bond in the movies. The U.N.C.L.E. man's real name is Robert Vaughn. He is 32, and he is on his way to his first million. Impoverished a couple of years ago, he now has increasing herds of livestock and several gas wells...
...Asunción, Paraguay, often arrive three days late; the 250-mile trip from Santa Fe south to Buenos Aires often takes 14 hours and sometimes more. Cattlemen have angrily protested to the government about cattle trains from the pampas that arrive at the stockyards with 20% of the livestock dead...
Less than 15 years ago, a couple of Peruvian entrepreneurs started seining the waters off the coast of Peru for anchovy, a tiny fish that, processed in different ways, can be tasty as an hors d'oeuvre or can make wonderful livestock food. By last year, fish meal was Peru's biggest single industry, bringing in $116 million in export earnings (TIME, May 8). Last week the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization announced that because of the anchovy, Peru is now kingfish of the entire world's fishing business. Of the record 46.4 million tons...
...Salmonella* bacillus has no fewer than 800 strains, most of which live in the gastrointestinal tracts of chickens, livestock, domestic pets and human carriers. The illness-producing germs are easily spread. Scientific tests have turned up the astonishing fact that as much as 58% of all meat in some U.S. cities is infected...