Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States must assume leadership in the struggle to meet increasing worldwide food demands in order to prevent a food crisis of unseen proportions within the next decade, Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said last night...
...Mayer addressed about 100 people at the Cambridge Forum stressing the need for extended U.S. assistance to the developing nations whose agricultural production has been seriously crippled by the shortage of fertilizer...
...higher prices. In the case of food, if the Third World is to get some of the protein it needs there will necessarily be less meat for Americans. How will this happen? Meat consumption will decrease when prices go high enough to override current tastes. Jean Mayer's proposal is nothing more than nudging along, with a humanitarian as well as nutritional rationale, the change in tastes that must eventually come...
...oppose Mayer's proposal. --Seth Kupferberg
...Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, expresses anger at student opposition to meatless days, and orders the Food Services Department to serve turkey tetrazzini every day for a month, "to break them." Half a million teamsters and Mayer are laid off. Bok announces that Sen. Peter I. Dominick (R-Colo.), "an expert on Third World nutrition," will fill Mayer's chair...