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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...
...Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life should adopt the proposal, passed on Monday by the subcommittee on Food Services, to institute an experimental policy of having two meatless days a week, to be followed by a student referendum on the question of instituting the plan permanently. But even if the plan is adopted, it will not be enough. Aside from the fact that it does not cover any of the graduate or professional schools--not to mention the Faculty Club--the meatless days plan does not insure any fundamental change in eating habits. No plan can do that, short...
...MEATLESS DAYS should not be seen as a panacea for the world's food problems. Even if every American turned vegetarian tomorrow, there is no reason to believe that the extra grain made available would reach the people who need it most. Before that can happen, there must be a fundamental change in the theory and practice of food aid programs, both in the United States and in other rich countries. And judging by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz's performance at the World Food Conference in Rome two weeks ago, that change may be a long...
...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 to poor countries and of slowing the rate of world population growth, which threatens to outstrip the available food supply...
...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...