Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have to make another withdrawal to cover some of the cost of an operation later this year. "I'm mad about inflation," says Seid man, "and I know I must fight back." He has joined an organization called Fight Inflation Together, which has sponsored boycotts of meat and milk and picketed super markets to protest high prices...
...because their feed had been contaminated with dieldrin. The chemical also washes into rivers and lakes and is ingested by fish. In fact, dieldrin is now found in nearly every edible product in the supermarket. A 1973 market-basket sampling by the Food and Drug Administration shows 96% of meat, fish and poultry was contaminated, and tests by the EPA have found that 99.5% of the population have some dieldrin in their body fat with an average residue level of 0.3 parts per mil lion. Levels build up faster among infants, because the chemical is concentrated in milk...
Some carnivors ask not to room with vegetarians. Do they detest soy bean? Well, that's a pity because most of the hamburger you'll be eating at Harvard will contain a good deal of these "protenaceous meat substitutes". After a couple of weeks of the food here, it's not difficult to turn vegetarian involuntarily...
Oddly, consumers could get some initial benefit from the drought. As the prices of corn and soybean feeds rise, farmers are bringing cattle, hogs and other livestock to market early, causing a temporary glut that could help to keep meat prices down-at first. By next winter or spring, though, that oversupply will be exhausted and meat prices probably will rise with a vengeance. There are some signs, too, of a revival of the panicky export buying that in the past has done much to push up U.S. food prices. Foreign buying so far has been no more than moderate...
...gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...