Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correctly state in your Essay "Time to Plant a New Farm Policy" [Feb. 26], that increased meat prices are a result of increased consumer demand at a low point in the meat-supply cycle. But are farm prices too high? I believe not. The consumer will have to pay a fair price in the market or subsidize the farmer directly with a grant, as you suggest. In fact, Americans spend a lower percentage of their disposable income for food than any other industrialized nation in the world...
Lest any budget-pinched shopper follow that lead, he had best be advised that a diet of canned, all-meat dog food is overly rich for humans, just as it is for dogs, and can lead to diarrhea, bloating and bad breath. But leavened with cereal-based dog food, it might even surpass in nutrients the diets of snack-happy American teenagers. One of the Oklahoma students' tastier recipes, for instance, calls for two cups of Gaines Gravy Train, heated with water, salt, pepper and garlic. That provides much more protein and vitamin A and B1 than does...
...rate of 163% last year and this year's trade deficit is expected to surpass $500 million. Says one foreign economist in Santiago: "By July or August there will be some very hungry people in Chile." Says Allende: "There are higher values than a piece of meat or a kilogram of potatoes...
When camp was pitched for any length of time, each P.O.W. was locked up in an 8-ft.-by-8-ft. cell constructed of green logs. The prisoners did not eat much worse than their captors: rice for every meal supplemented by the meat of anything that ran or crawled-snake, dog, tiger, rat, anteater. A delicacy was elephant blood soup. "Jungle meat can be real good," says Utecht. "One day I tried to cut into a ball of meat. It suddenly spread out, forming a hand. It was a monkey's hand...
...many poor people within the richer member countries of the Common Market and widespread chronic poverty in the poorer nations of Italy, Britain and Ireland. All too many homes in the slums of Glasgow lack baths and hot water, and in France thousands of working-class families can afford meat only once or twice a week. Throughout the Common Market, however, social benefits help to compensate for low incomes. Medical services are free, or virtually free; family allowances ($65 a month for three children in Belgium, for example) help to feed and clothe the children of the poor; in most...