Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salim, a coastal African descended from fastidious Indian immigrants, Bigburgers resemble "smooth white lips of bread over mangled black tongues of meat." Salim is the novel's narrator who, like the self-seeding hyacinth, drifts through the swirls of political and social change. The result is a sensitive fictional character with the detachment of an anthropologist...
...ragged edges of free enterprise; the inevitable scholars, priests and primitive-art collectors; old servants who have made parasitism an honorable profession; and promising young men who will go directly from dugout to jet. The economy of the town remains fairly simple. Villagers from the bush sell smoked monkey meat to steamer passengers. The money is used to buy pots, cloth and razor blades from the shops in town. The shopowners can then eat Bigburgers...
Some consumer groups advocate that a one-day-a-week beef boycott be organized to resist meat increases, which amounted to 110% at an annual rate for hamburger in the past three months. But beef producers retort that this will only aggravate the long-run shortage by discouraging the building of new beef herds. One Georgia grocery-store manager reports on his customers' switching to cheaper meats: "They're not boycotting beef, they just can't afford...
...lunacy, the cow that jumped over the moon has gone into orbit. During this year's first three months, average prices for beef cuts are up 9%, to $2.23 per lb., and are expected to climb a further 25% by year's end. Because high prices at meat counters are such an immediate indicator of inflation's bite, consumers are clamoring for Washington to do something to bring them down...
...current import quota of 1.5 billion Ibs. annually, or 5.5% of the total beef consumed in the U.S., is about as high as it can go. Because of beef shortages elsewhere in an increasingly affluent and meat-eating world, only Australia and New Zealand can increase their import allotments. Those two could be lifted by 50 million Ibs., to a total barely enough to meet one one-thousandth of U.S. beef needs. Local consumer boycotts, like New York City's "Beefless Wednesday" campaign, signal cattlemen that demand for beef is dropping and that further herd cutbacks are in order...