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Cattlemen's Plight. Planned for a month by a group of disgruntled farmers, each of whom contributed three or four animals, the slaughter was dutifully recorded by television cameras and flashed into millions of American homes on network newscasts that evening. The point of the 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...
...industrial West eat much more meat than is nutritionally necessary. They probably do so because they like meat's taste; it is also a status symbol of a high living standard, even in Communist countries. When the Soviets suffered a crop shortfall two years ago, they did not slaughter cattle to conserve grain (as they had done in 1963), but instead they imported 28 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans. So long as the industrial nations continue to favor meat over direct grain consumption, says Sylvan Wittwer, Michigan State University agricultural economist, "the sky is the limit...
...best tradition of the early muckrakers, both Paul Brodeur and Rachel Scott movingly demonstrate their concern. Scott, 27, studies what she calls "industrial slaughter in America." Brodeur, 43, analyzes in extraordinary detail the "delayed carnage" of disease-inducing chemicals and fiber-laden air that exist in all too many of today's factories. The pair worked separately (Scott full time for three years, Brodeur intermittently for six) but often on the same scandalous health conditions. The tone of their writing is largely nonpolemical and convincing. They name the offending corporations, pin down the evasions of company doctors, reveal...
...alleged decedent named in the indictment became a human body, human being, or person." Whether the lawyers will accept Flanagan's "live-and-kicking" thesis remains to be seen, but it's a good bet that Flanagan will make his case first as the prosecutor in the Edelin man-slaughter trial, which begins probably in October and could raise the same thorny issue...
...been shut down by the vicious cost squeeze that threatens to close Calabrese's Caroline Baking Co. (1973 sales, $200,000). In the past eight months, oil of anise has risen from $3 per lb. to $40. Because the high price of chickenfeed is forcing many farmers to slaughter their hens, eggs are both scarce and more expensive. Says he: "If prices keep rising like this I could go out of business in a few months." Calabrese has reduced the number of pizzelles in a package from seven to six, foregoing a price increase because "I had to raise...