Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article, "Meat Uproar, Act II" [July 1], failed to mention an important fact: farmers are consumers...
...reflecting declines in wheat. Also, some agricultural prices have kept on rising: sugar recently hit a record 26? per lb., boosting prices of goods ranging from Life Savers to Kool-Aid soft drinks. But the biggest reason is that "middlemen" (a term covering bakeries, canners, meat packers, supermarket chains and trucking firms) are not passing along to housewives much of the decline in farm prices...
Less Capital. But there is also some suspicion that middlemen, especially grocery chains, have been adding un-warrantedly to their profits. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz set a panel of experts to studying why retail meat prices remain high despite drops at the farm level, and the Federal Trade Commission launched a study to determine how the size and market share of major store chains affect competition and prices. Supermarket chiefs insist their profits are still low. The chains are earning only 9? profit on each $10 of sales, v. 7? last year. "Food retailers of this country...
...belt complaints that prices previously had dropped so low as to threaten bankruptcies among some animal raisers and feedlot operators, the Government is buying up $100 million of "excess" beef and pork for use in its school-lunch program, and has asked Australia and New Zealand to "voluntarily" restrain meat exports...
Wendell Anderson, 41, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota, has frozen property taxes for the elderly, initiated stringent environmental measures and given his state a tough campaign-financing law. Son of a St. Paul meat packer, he worked his way through college and law school, played on the U.S. Olympic hockey team in 1956 and won a seat in the state legislature -all by the time he was 25. Anderson won the governorship in 1970 even though he endorsed a sizable increase in personal income taxes. His detractors now call him "Spendy Wendy," but the increase has paid...