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EVERY man's meat
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from beef supplies — so the civilian has practically nothing left.
Now during the time when pork was glutting the market, the military and war services were not using the eight million pounds of meat allocated to them by the War Food Administration. Lack of canning facilities was their excuse for not using this pork granted them. The House of Representatives Committee holds that if some of this pork had been stored for later use by the military and war services, the Army's present 80 per cent set-aside against canner and cutter beef would not be necessary. Much the same situation applies to poultry. Military and war service requirements have moved into the broiler producing areas with a 100 per cent setaside. There simply was not enough meat stored during peak production periods to off-set the periods when production is low.
Feeding
Of course, part of the low cattle and hog production was the result of low feed supplies during 1943 and 1944. However, feed is abundant now. It would seem that pork production should be requested and encouraged.
The Committee is enormously concerned over cattle feeding. If beef is to be produced in greater quantities, it must be made profitable to fatten cattle in the feed lots. (It is in these lots that the steer or heifer
reaches final and finest development, after it has left the range pastures.) At present, feed lot fattening is not profitable. Actual feeders — an important part of the meat-producing industry—show reluctance to face the dangers of prolonged feeding at the present margins. The current spread of meat and cattle prices was set by the CPA when the feed shortage made it desirable to fatten cattle to lighter weights. But now when supplies are greatly increased, there is a need for revision in the price structure.
As remedies for the situation, the Committee suggests that (a) retail ceilings be increased; or (b) that prices be lowered on the hoof; or (c) that the squeeze on the feeder be absorbed by subsidy.
That Old Black Market
— has us in its spell! And that, the Committee finds, is not just an empty play on words. Black market activities are still on the increase in spite of all efforts against them.
And another thing. While well-established national packers, federally inspected, are forced to cut their production drastically, reports show that small packers, usually not federally inspected, have increased their business to twice, eight, even ten times their volume for 1944. The Committee considers this factor an indication of some sort of black market ac