Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other things, a recommendation for "un-dinners," complete with programs and speakers but no food. Perhaps curiously, considering their meatless Friday tradition, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meeting in Washington last month recommended two days of fasting each week but did not enjoin Catholics to abstain from meat on those days. The reason: they had been reminded by Bishop Edward O'Rourke of Peoria, 111., that the nation's meat producers were themselves in serious economic trouble...
...Shared Meat. The plight of the meatmen is just one example of the intricate economics of hunger that nearly all new advocates of fasting recognize. They agree that fasting is of little practical use unless money thus saved is sent to relief agencies or any surpluses created are somehow transferred to the hungry. A cutback in U.S. eating habits, even if sustained, will not automatically put grain on the table in Ethiopia or India. Thus churchmen recommend that Christians also get involved in political action to force increases in Government purchase and shipment of food to hungry countries...
...debating, it is best to stick with the supermarkets. It is luxury for less, and a light pack is small recompense for a weekend of weird tasting meals. The winter is the one time when all those frozen fruits and vegetables pay off, as well as the canned meat products...
...distressing is that there is in fact enough grain in the world now to make up current food deficits if the countries that need it can find the money to buy it. Long-range needs will require that the more affluent nations slow their current gorging, not only of meat but of fuel. And the burgeoning world population, which if left un checked will double within 35 years, must be brought under control. But getting food from where it is most abundant to where it is most needed remains a problem naggingly resistant to easy, conscience-soothing solutions...
...Wichita used income from the sale of industrial bonds to draw such national firms as Metropolitan Life, National Cash Register and J.I. Case Co. Early next year Western Electric will open a new plant on the western outskirts. In the past year every one of the city's meat-packing plants has either completed or begun major expansion programs. A giant retail shopping center and hotel-convention hall will open this spring on the east side of town...