Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grows its own rice and raises 900-odd pigs. Everything fits into its objective of achieving self-reliance and, as Vice Commander Keng puts it, "lightening the burden of the locality." There is a very basic quality about the whole operation. The necessities of life with no refinements-rice, meat and soy sauce...
Wooing Vote. The Consumer Price Index in January climbed by a seasonally adjusted .3%, a middling rise. But meat prices, a matter of prime concern to consumers, jumped 1.5%. Retail food prices for 1972 are expected to increase 4%. Wooing the farm vote, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz recently told audiences of farmers: "We are trying to get farm prices up-and you haven't seen anything...
Need for Imports. Although Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson last week expressed concern that the jump in meat prices would hurt public confidence in Phase II controls, there is not much that he can do to stop it. Like other raw agricultural products, livestock is exempt from price control. Prices of processed meat theoretically are subject to control, but the commission has found it impractical to require packers to ask permission to raise prices every time the quotes on live animals rise...
Economically, the easiest way to bring meat prices down would be to import more inexpensive meat. Politically, though, that course is barred by two sets of quotas: mandatory quotas provided by a law passed in 1964, and "voluntary" quotas added in 1968 to avoid triggering the mandatory quotas. The voluntary quotas are reviewed yearly, and two years ago they were relaxed slightly in order to slow an earlier rise in meat prices. Agriculture Department officials conducting this year's review, however, make it clear that any further relaxation in this presidential election year will have to be decided...
...member of a 300-man production team-one of six on the commune-he will then have to face three hours in the field before a brief lunch of millet, sorghum and tea. Then it is back to the fields until sundown. Before supper-occasionally it may include meat, chicken or some other delicacy-there may be time for the peasant to work on his private plot of land, on which he grows vegetables to vary the family diet and for extra cash...