Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President endorsed a long-stalled law ordering states to raise their meat hygiene codes in conformity with strict federal inspection standards. The measure, which had lain dormant in congressional committees despite efforts of its Democratic sponsors, was given the impetus of national publicity by Nader. He pointed out in a series of freelance articles that many meat-processing plants throughout the country, which handle a full 15% of the beef, pork, lamb and poultry consumed in the U.S., escape federal inspection because the meat does not cross state lines...
...earned him $55,000). Nader's success is largely due to his unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages of Government reports and technical journals, then distills his findings into mind-grabbing slogans. One article on meat, for example, was titled "Watch That Hamburger!"; his most effective apothegm during the automobile ruckus, "They Can't Sell Safety," was a telling put-down of Detroit's ad language...
...During the luncheon break in Harlem, Subcommittee Chairman Benjamin Rosenthal of New York City led aides and reporters to a supermarket for a personal check. Packaged goods were found to be mismarked, frozen foods were half thawed, and the manager admitted that after two days on the shelf, packaged meat was taken back to the butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with 18.5% fat in similar meat bought in a good neighborhood. Even a head...
...Larger Sense. Devaluation may enable Britain to boost its exports (notably autos, appliances and aircraft) enough to erase a quarter of its trade deficit, but it will hit the pocketbook of every Briton. Grocers warned that food prices will rise at least 5%, starting with imported fruit, meat and vegetables. The cost of living normally jumps when food-importing Britain devalues. This time the price increases seem likely to touch off a new round of wage demands that Prime Minister Wilson, no longer armed with pay-freeze powers, will have trouble restraining. Promising that his complex web of economic restrictions...
...cause-and with headline-grabbing Ralph Nader and labor unions joining the fight for across-the-board federal standards-it was not surprising last week that the Johnson Administration switched allegiance from Montoya to Mondale. Said Consumer Affairs Special Assistant Betty Furness: "The American housewife wants immediate and mandatory meat inspection." Speaking of the Montoya bill, she added: "I believe the housewife is unwilling to wait two years or three years or longer before she can be confident that the meat she serves her family is healthful." Best guess, however, is that the subcommittee will compromise on a bill closer...