Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard included, among other things, pork chops, fricasseed chicken, cold ham and corn beef. Consumption patterns have changed somewhat since then, but--in a world where 10,000 people die of starvation every week--it seems that Harvard and Radcliffe students still consume more than their fair share of meat. Beef now appears on the menu in some form at least once a day, and students can help themselves to as much as they...
...result of devaluation and lower govern ment subsidies for basic commodities, prices of most items last week were in creased anywhere from 35% to 200%. The cost of sugar, which already was 21.60 per lb., tripled, and milkwent up 60%. Egg prices jumped 64%, bread 100%, meat 35%. Bus fares will rise 60%, and gasoline 64%, to $1.86 per gal. Fuel oil for industry zoomed up 117%. The standard of li ving of most middle-class Israelis, as measured by prices and income, overnight dropped about...
...staged massacre was to draw White House attention to the cattlemen's plight. Caught between soaring feed-grain prices and depressed wholesale prices for their beef, farmers claim that they are losing money and in some cases facing bankruptcy. (Consumers have hardly noticed much drop in meat prices, but farmers suspect middlemen of raising their profit margins unjustifiably.) The farmers want relief in the form of emergency loans or reduced meat imports to kick up prices further. Some even call for the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who they feel does not support their interests...
Voicing similar demands, other groups of farmers have staged their own slaughters in recent weeks, with photographers and reporters nearly outnumbering cattlemen. Near Utica, N.Y., dairy farmers herded 100 calves into a packing plant, killed them, and distributed the meat to local Mennonites. In Texas, a mass slaughter of 3,000 calves was halted last month, but only after a meeting was scheduled between farmers and Agriculture Department officials...
Furthermore, the Conference has not been able to deal substantively with the structure of food production and use in the rich nations. The purchasing power of the rich has meant the import of protein and its conversion into meat at incredible and growing rates. The export of our consumer culture, the development of export-oriented cash-crops, and the side-effects of the Green revolution involve additional distortions central to issues in which the rich nations are involved. These factors collectively inhibit, rather than promote self-reliant food supply systems in the Third World...