Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upperclassmen with 12 o'clock classes will be able to eat in the Union from 11:45 a.m. to 12 noon beginning with lunch Jan. 6, and after that date Central Kitchen dining halls will offer "acceptable meat substitutes" for their less popular dinner entrees...
...plan to supply meat substitutes for such dishes as yeal, lamb, stew and ham is based on a policy already in effect in Quincy House, where it has proven economically feasible because that dining hall serves uniform portions of all items...
What if Swift and Armour were to give up packing meat and start selling block-frozen string -beans instead? What if Goodyear and Firestone were to stop producing bulging pneumatic rotundities that tread softly and squeal raffishly? And what if Boeing-maker and creator of the 707s-were to open its vast doors only to release a string of skinny, canvas-covered, piston-driven biplanes...
...came from Belgian mills, from which it could be imported at a low duty within the Common Market. East German machines are sometimes shipped to Amsterdam, where they are doctored and remarked as Swedish products to make a big saving on import duties. Some Germans have become "meat millionaires" by working the same dodge to bring in canned Yugoslavian horse meat - labeled beef goulash - and Ethiopian pork and beef. A meat company imported almost 3,000,000 lbs. of beef from South America by sending it first to Ireland and Australia, making false bills and shipping it on to Germany...
Burgess postulates an earth of perhaps two or three hundred years in the future. Overpopulation is the all but in soluble problem. Cities have swallowed the earth; food, when it is to be had, is limited to processed fish, meat and milk substitutes (meat and dairy animals require too much land...