Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound of beef consumed, a steer has gobbled up 20 Ibs. of grain. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer notes that "the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million Americans would feed 1.5 billion Chinese on an average Chinese diet...
...Mayer, also master of Dudley House, said he will discuss the plan at the December CHUL meeting since he feels students should be the initiators of such a program...
...list of recommendations released yesterday, Mayer suggested that all Americans conform to a "two-meatless-days-a-week" schedule. Mayer also criticized the progress of the World Food Conference in Rome, saying the United States should put pressure on the Soviet Union and the "new rich" OPEC countries to contribute major help to world food relief...
...Mayer called for the oil-producing nations to "make a special effort to help fellow Moslem countries--Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia," and said the Soviet Union should disclose its grain reserves...
...Mayer also suggested that Americans cut their consumption of alcohol, estimating that the grain used to produce the hard liquor consumed annually by Americans could feed 20 to 30 million people...