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When you're hungry, what could be better than a mixture of mushrooms, onions, oats, brown rice, low-fat cheese, egg whites, bulgur wheat, walnuts and seasonings pressed into a patty and baked? Almost anything, you say? Not according to assorted Hollywood celebrities and health-conscious residents of Portland, Ore. They're all fans of a meatless competitor to the hamburger, called the Gardenburger. Developed by Paul Wenner, president of Portland's Wholesome and Hearty Foods Inc., it packs half the calories and one-fifth the fat of ordinary hamburgers...
...death sentence was decreed as an emergency measure to rescue a vital export industry by curtailing wool production. During the past 18 months, Australia's prime overseas customers have cut back on purchases, leaving a glut of fleeces. Moreover, wheat farmers expect to see their incomes halved this year, and home-grown citrus sales have also soured. At a time when much of Australia is taking to beaches and playgrounds, the dreaming high summer of the Lucky Country's interior has turned into a nightmare...
...sheep men's miseries are not the countryside's only plight. Thanks to bumper harvests around the world, wheat farmers face their lowest returns in more than half a century, and the international embargo on exports to Iraq has also eliminated Australia's second-biggest customer. Aggravating the crisis is cutthroat grain dumping by the U.S. and the European Community; both unload surplus wheat overseas at subsidized prices...
...operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...
...export total. The embargo came as painful news for producers, since world prices for rice had fallen 28% during the previous year. Nor are rice growers the only farmers feeling the pinch. Before the invasion, Baghdad was buying $350 million worth of other U.S. grains annually, including wheat, corn, barley and soybeans...