MEAT CONSUMPTION.
SHRINKAGE CAUSES LOSSES. (United Press Association —By Eleotrie Teiueraph—Copyrieht.) NEW YORK, February 27. Mr Everitt Brown, president of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange, estimates that there has been a shrinkage of 1,375,000,090 dollars in the value of live stock in the United States in the last six months. Diet jiropaganda was destroying the meat business. Prices for beef cattle had dropped about four dollars per hundred pounds and Mr Brown added that the demand for beef bad been so curtailed that consumption in some sections was 25 per cent under normal. Seme experts assert that the markets are clogged with beef which cannot be sold. Mr Brown also pointed out that there was a; great change in public diet in progress, in which meat was cut to a point 45 per cent, less than that of ten years ago.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 21
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141MEAT CONSUMPTION. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 21
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