Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayer, meatlessness so rich it's dermative...
KICKER: Steve Mike-Mayer, Maryland, 6 ft., 180 lbs. A sidewinder from Hungary who kicked 37 field goals during his career at Maryland. His brother Nick is already a successful kicker with the Atlanta Falcons...
PROFESSOR JEAN MAYER'S proposal to institute meatless days at Harvard deserves serious consideration. Eating meat is the most inefficient method of obtaining calories, since it takes about eight pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. The world's grain reserves are at a dangerously low level, and the average American--who now consumes over twice as much beef as in 1950--is helping to deplete them even further...
Both White and Mayer were encouraged by the response to last Thursday's fast--in which 2200 students participated--and see it as an indication that students are concerned about the world food situation. But there is a difference between passing up one meal and making a fundamental change in eating habits, and it is not yet clear how far students are willing to go. Even if they are ready to take the step to meatless days, the plan is not an automatic solution to the food crisis. There remain the enormous problems of transporting grain from rich countries...
...Mayer says that these problems are not insurmountable, and he is optimistic about what his proposal can achieve. "With meatless days, we will be accomplishing a number of things," he says. "We will be making a real contribution to relieving the pressure on our food supply; we will be keeping people from starving, until they can develop agricultural techniques and methods of population control; we will be improving our health; and we will be improving the state of our pocketbook. Also, we will just be paying attention to people who have problems that are much greater than any that...