“Cow-slaughter a sin”
Sir,—Few will dispute Lord MacLeod’s condemnation of the,slaughter of 250,000 cows in E.E.C. countries, to keep the price of milk high, as a sta. The destruction of food upon which President Roosevelt’s New Deal agricultural policy was based to cure “the curse of plenty” (Lord MacLeod’s phrase) afflicts capitalist economies in recurring cycles. The United States today still buys foodstuffs to take off the market to keep prices high. President Eisenhower’s “soil bank" programme revived Roosevelt’s policy of paying fanners to let their land lie fallow, abandoned when World War II made food-growing profitable again. In the light of these multitudinous examples it is incomprehensible that Malthus has disciples today. While food is being destroyed its production curtailed in the cause of profitability economics, it is heartless stupidity to believe that Malthus’s misanthropic doctrine has validity in today’s situation. —Yours, etc., M.C.H. March 30, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 16
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