Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Move over, Ben Cartwright. Some rich new cattle barons have come to town. In the past year Japanese investors have developed an appetite for U.S. beef- producing properties, including ranches, feedlots and packinghouses. Zenchiku, a major Tokyo-based meat importer, bought the 80,000-acre Selkirk Ranch near Dillon, Mont., last October for $13 million. A company called Mt. Shasta Beef, formed by Japanese entrepreneur Masa Tanabe and three California cattlemen, spent $2.2 million in January to lay claim to a 6,000-acre ranch in Northern California's Siskiyou County...
What spurred the investments was Tokyo's agreement last June to lift trade restrictions that limited imports of U.S. beef to 14% of Japan's market, which last year totaled 676,000 tons. Since Japanese meat companies expect to import much more U.S.-grown beef, they realize that if they own some of the American cattle operations, they will have a larger stake in the profits...
...general, the Japanese cattle barons have tried to avoid stirring hard feelings about their new investments. In the U.S. they have formed joint ventures that include American investors. And in Australia companies like Mitsubishi have pledged millions of dollars to upgrade meat-processing plants, which will provide more jobs. The new cowboys want to be seen as pardners, not rustlers...
...report stresses that the new guidelines are realistic and feasible, requiring adjustments but no real deprivations. Americans may still safely eat meat, provided it is "lean meat in smaller and fewer portions than is customary." Says Dr. DeWitt Goodman, a member of the panel from Columbia University: "The recommendations are compatible with gourmet, delicious eating." Some Americans may dispute that, but they will have to decide which is more important -- good taste or good health...
...Mirror casts a lighter, more positive reflection. Booster journalism promotes progressive activities. It includes poetry and several pages of basketball, handball and softball scores. Consumer stories criticize new prison regulations, meat fraud in the cafeteria, movies on the closed-circuit | channel and such outside issues as exploitation of lab animals and the Federal Government's handling of the AIDS crisis...