Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prime beef on the hoof fell to 22? per lb., the lowest since 1946, and cattlemen discarded their usual suspicion of Government programs long enough to cry for federal aid. Washington responded quickly. The State Department signed agreements with Australia and New Zealand to limit their exports of meat...
...years, and U.S. prices dropped 25% in 1963. More than 10% of the 97 Ibs. of beef eaten by the average American last year was imported, and most of it came from the sprawling ranges of Australia and New Zealand, which produce a chewy but inexpensive grade of meat. The new trade agreements will hold this year's imports to the 1962-63 level and permit small increases later-but this did not satisfy U.S. cattlemen. In Omaha, the National Livestock Feeders Association announced that it was "disturbed, disgusted, dumfounded." Cattlemen's groups want even stiffer import quotas...
...After a winter of scarcities, they learned only two weeks before the meeting that fodder shortages last fall had forced farmers to slaughter 29 million hogs-more than 40% of Russia's entire swine herd-as well as record numbers of cattle and sheep, thus assuring that scarce meat will be scarcer than ever for the next few years...
...devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...
...little like asking a two-pack-a-day man to give up smoking. In Argentina, beef belt of the hemisphere, the country's 30 biggest packinghouses urged President Arturo Illia to institute meat rationing. Otherwise, they warned, exports will drop, many meat packers will close, and 60,000 workers will be out of work. Ironically, the trouble is that 1963 was a banner year for Argentine beef exports; slaughterhouses worked overtime, and farmers thinned out their herds. Now they are trying to build up their cattle stocks again, and in a land where 21 million people eat an average...