Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supermarkets of Chicago, Carl Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world," pork chops that sold in September for 98$ per Ib. recently brought $1.19. "I'm no longer just buying meat-I'm investing in it," grumbled one typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake...
Treasury Secretary John Connally hastily summoned top executives of a dozen food-market chains last week; they agreed to provide him with special weekly reports on meat prices, which have soared 14% in the past year. C. Jackson Grayson, chairman of the Price Commission, scheduled hearings on all food prices for next week. A growing number of economists, including at least two members of TIME'S Board of Economists-Otto Eckstein and Robert Nathan-favor placing farm prices under direct federal control. They warn that if food prices during March show anything like the February increase...
...gloated over their recent levels. Farmers have benefited substantially in recent months from deliberate Government policies. Butz has budgeted a record $4 billion for 1972 agriculture programs, including $1.9 billion for feed-grain subsidies. Such payments not only jack up the price of, say, feed corn, but also of meat. Reason: when feed grains are expensive, farmers raise less livestock...
...food dollar, while others-presumably packers, truckers, wholesalers, distributors and super-marketeers-swallow the rest. Nixon was being a bit casual with his statistics. In fact, the farmer gets 400 of the food dollar (see chart, page 22). He does even better on relatively unprocessed foods like meat, raw vegetables and fruit. Ranchers pocket about two-thirds of the retail price for beef, which accounted for the biggest chunk of the February price surge...
Nader has busily progressed from attacking defective autos (millions of which have been recalled as a direct result of his activities) to denouncing the filth in meat-packing plants, which was still sickeningly pervasive 60 years after Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Nader's list of targets expands steadily: harmful food additives, explosion-prone natural-gas pipelines, radiation emissions from color television sets, unwholesome poultry, polluted water and air, bureaucratic sloth, corporate oligopoly, laborunion corruption, Union Carbide, the Du Fonts of Delaware, California land use, the Bureau of Reclamation. Next, Nader plans to zero in on the lassitude...