This included fertilizer companies, chemical companies, feed dealers and county tax collectors. The beef industry is the largest item in our supermarkets and it was becoming apparent that nothing would happen until the cattlemen placed a bull with a cow. In order to increase the cowherd, heifers must be withheld from feedlots to go back to the ranches. This is when the feedlots and meat packers worried about how these feedlots
Then the greatest drought in 60 years hit Texas and forced further liquidation of the cow herds. Many young cows were slaughtered or failed to breed.
doing well, and said we would sell oil for food, but not for credit. Food riots began to break out in cities. Small towns near farms and ranches fared better. The President ordered price controls so the price of meat went down, but there was no meat. Cattlemen who had begun to rebuild their herds could not produce beef at a loss, so they quit. A wise economist said, “If we have a free market based on supply and demand, we could recover.� Unemployed veterans from the Middle East began to grow food and leave the cities. The U.S. will recover, but the damage has been done.
We could turn to Australia or Mexico for beef. Mexico’s growing population and our cheap dollar attracted no beef.
History has repeated itself. As populations grow, people turn to primarily plant food. The Irish did this with a potato diet. They could feed an increasing population with potatoes until the potato famine caused mass migration and starvation.
What of the future? We do not have to have a high protein diet. Asian people of small stature can live on rice, beans and sugar. However, our larger framed people require the amino acids, vitamins, minerals and protein of beef.
Orientals have existed on a primarily rice diet, with small amounts of food or meat. Today they are competing in athletics and are consuming more meat. They are also getting taller.
Many young people will experience malnutrition. We love our cars and cheap gasoline, but we cannot burn up our food supply in order to drive 75 mph.
Finally, as health problems arise in young people lacking amino acid protein, and older people suffering from osteoporosis, mothers remembered what they were taught from their mothers: A meal consists of a serving of meat, a starch (potato, rice, bread), a green salad, a cooked vegetable plus dessert.
Our corn farmers in the mid-west have grown corn on topsoil by Bison and grazing animals over tens of thousands of years. We must have an animal industry to return this organic matter to the soil. For sustainability we must have a balance of plant life and animal life. It has always been this way.
Young men, many who were veterans, returned to the land. They expanded cow herds, rebuilt dairies and farmed to grow crops for humans as well as the farm animals that enabled them to balance animal life with their plant life.
Our plants, our livestock and our energy are all related.
can conserve energy, but we cannot destroy our food supply. Customers went to the meat cases in the supermarkets and they were bare. Panic began to set in and when a shipment of meat arrived, it was quickly bought and hoarded.
Nutritionists began to recognize that humans needed meat as part of their diet to develop to be strong, athletic, mentally sound and long-lived. Birds, animals and people at the top of the food chain all used a high-protein diet with meat as an essential part of it. Universities supported diet research, people ate more protein and obesity declined. This is because their hunger
At the same time, workers were receiving increased paychecks, providing they had a job. However, their money in the government printing more and more cheap money that would buy less and less. Panic began to set in. diplomats turned to China to buy more U.S. bonds. The Chinese said we have enough already.
The latest research indicates that heart disease, cancer and diabetes are not caused by red meat, but they are caused by sugar, cane or corn. As is true with most fads, consumers returned to a balanced diet, farms and ranches provided good food and the United States continued to lead the earth.
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