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...recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins out, there might be a horrific slaughter of blacks...
...cushion the blow to cattle ranchers, the USDA last week began an 18- month program of buying 400 million lbs. of red meat for school lunches, overseas military bases and other uses. But for the next several months, those purchases are not expected to keep pace with the dairy slaughter. Says Rancher Jack Sparrowk, who runs a herd of 25,000 cattle near Sacramento: "The USDA is asleep at the switch...
...problem for the cattle ranchers is that the slaughtering of about 1.6 million dairy cows will provide a large new source of meat to the market and thus further depress beef prices. After the USDA announced March 28 that more than enough dairy farmers had volunteered for the slaughter program, the price of April beef futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange dipped from 58.2 cents per lb. to 52.6 cents...
...ranchers are hoping for relief through the courts. A U.S. district court in Rochester has issued a temporary restraining order against one aspect of the USDA program: a requirement that dairy cows designated for slaughter be branded on the face so that they cannot be secretly sold to other farmers. The Humane Society had sued, claiming that the branding "constitutes cruelty to animals." Meanwhile, the National Cattlemen's Association has sued the USDA in a Texas federal court, hoping to convince the judge that the whole Government program constitutes cruelty to cattle ranchers...
...opening day in every other city is a festive occasion, whether the home team wins or not. Just ask any Yankee fan who has sat through an opening day slaughter--and then a manager-firing two weeks later...