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Friday. March 30, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Meat Boycott Gains Little Local Support
By CHRIS STEVENS
Kansan Staff Writer
A nationwide boycott planned for next week has failed so far to gain large shares.
The only organized support will come from Delta Garma Sorority, which will beyond all best efforts continue to honor Hamilton, assistant professor of speech and drama, who will distribute leaflets on protein substitutes in front of Fallowe and Rusty's Hillcrest
Delta Gamma voted to boycott beef and pork for the week of April 17, housemother Juanna Brown said. Fowl and cheese will be substituted for meat on the hood, she
Brown called the boycott form of protest but was uncertain whether it would have a political basis.
Hamlin said his classes experimental project evolved because of student interest and desire to do something about the boycott.
TWO GROUPS OF 12 to 15 students at
Faalley and Rusty's from 11:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday next week.
Hamilton called the project an exercise rather than a commitment for the students.
Unaware of any group in Lawrence organized to boycott meat, the class decided
"I will not be a picket," he said "Rather,
students will hand out educational in-
formations."
Hamlin said that the need for beef in diets was largely a persuaded notion. Hamlin views the action as an opportunity for students to actively influence the public.
The boycott started in California when
The labor department announced that meat prices had increased five per cent in February FIT planned the boycott as an all out effort to drive rising prices down.
THE INFLATED meat prices can be attributed to feed grain shortages and livestock underproduction that increased the market price along with a Phase III price buildup resulting from absorbed costs of the Phase II price freeze.
June Donovan and Arlene Mathew organized Fight Infection Together (FIT) to promote meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays and to back the week-long bovocv
Yet the livestock and crop volume can be replenished to meet consumer demands
In the meantime, consumers must either accept the high price of meat or find alternatives. Horse meat, beans, peanut products and other animal products are cheaper sources of protein
The administration has tried to expand food supply by suspending meat import quotas, selling government grain and a million fallow crop acres into production.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns has advised consumers to spend less on meat and more on cheese and suggested mealtess days.
LANCE BURR, chief of the Consumer Protection Division of the Kansas Attorney General's office, endorsed the boycott in the belief that it would unify consumers.
Instead of supporting or not supporting the boycott, the University of Kansas Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) will conduct the study to substitute and recipes for mealtless meals
The CPA plans to compile a leaflet on rising food prices and alternatives to high prices.
Eddy's Note
Price are in
dollars per pound
Dillion's
Failley's
Krager's
Royalty's H202001
Royalty's 2048.
Safeway
Average
T.bone steak
Feb. 8
1.49
1.89
1.59
1.95
1.97
1.99
1.81
1.94
March 15
1.69
2.09
1.99
1.95
1.89
2.08
1.94
Per cent change
13
11
10
25
10
4.0
3.5
7.2
High
1.49
2.09
1.99
1.95
1.99
2.08
1.94
Low
1.49
1.81
1.59
1.95
1.99
2.08
1.94
Swift's bacon
Feb. 8
95
1.19
1.09
1.09
1.09
98
1.06
March 15
98
1.19
1.25
89
89
98
1.03
Per cent change
1.2
0
14
18
18
0
2.8
High
98
1.19
1.25
1.09
1.15
98
1.10
Low
95
1.19
1.09
89
89
98
99
Chicken
Feb. 8
43
.45
.35
43
49
35
41
March 15
35
.63
.45
63
65
45
52
Per cent change
19
40
29
47
33
29
26.8
High
43
.63
.35
63
65
49
55
Low
35
.45
.35
43
45
35
40
Hamburger
Feb. 8
73
.75
.77
68
68
72
72
March 15
67
.79
.79
79
79
76
79
Per cent change
19
5.3
2.6
19
16
7.6
9.8
High
87
.89
.75
89
89
76
71
Low
77
.75
.75
68
67
72
71
Hot dogs
Feb. 8
95
.95
.99
89
99
99
96
March 15
79
1.09
1.09
99
1.09
1.05
1.01
Per cent change
17
15
10
11
10
6.1
5.2
High
99
1.09
1.09
99
1.09
1.05
1.05
Low
79
95
.99
89
99
99
93
Average for meat
Feb. 8
91
1.02
.94
1.01
1.04
1.01
March 15
94
1.16
1.09
1.03
1.04
1.04
Per cent change
3.3
14
14
2.0
1.9
5.0
7.1
Consumers can cut by paying close attention to unit pricing, avoiding such convenience items as packaged and frozen foods and shopping for sales. Quantity purchases also lower costs. Purchase of a side of beef would save shoppers money
Howard Koelker, meat manager of the Dillon's supermarket on 6th street, he planned to cut meat orders slightly next week to allow him to manage a large decrease in meat purchases.
DON JANSCH OF Harwood's wholesale meats said that more inquiries were being made about meat prices but that sales remained the same recently. Janisch said there was no trend toward panic buying or boarding.
A butcher at Falles's said that there had been no decrease in sales but that the demand for cheese was up.
Local meat retailers agreed that a boycot would not be effective.
The residence halls will not boycott meat next week said Lenor Edkahl, director of food services for KU. She said the men would inflict a boycott on people under contract.
Ekdahi said that meat substitutes would be available for students to choose from
Most fraternities and sororites have experienced little change in meals despite high prices. Food is bought from wholesale companies, and meat is sold in bulk. High price frames same groups to buy meat only at sale prices and store it in house freezers.
"Cooperative buying is a possibility to overcoming the increased costs," she said. "The interfamilia Council did present this to the housemothers last fall to get their feelings on it. It has been very successful at K-State."
KATHRYN LAUBER, Delta Tau Delta housemother, said there was a possibility of increased housebills or assessments at the end of the year.
Lawrence restaurants have not counted on a boycott to affect them. Five local restaurants had not planned to cut back on meat orders for next week.
Students Study Local Food Prices
By CHRIS STEVENS
By CHRIS STEVENS
Kansan Staff Writer
Joseph Medved, Kansas City, Kan,
junior, and Warren Wereed, Overland Park,
Kan, freshman, shipped Lawrence grocery
from Feb. 8 to March 15 on a weekly basis
from Feb. 8 to Mar. 15.
Moved and Wew compiled the data for an Economics $5 term paper and for the economics $10 term paper.
The average price per pound of the five
Meatpies have steadily increased since February, the survey showed. Medved noticed that hamburger and choice cuts of meat contained more fat as the survey progressed. He said this was noticeable on weekends and when he cooked the meat at home.
Meat priests rose 7.1 per cent in Lawrence in the five weeks the survey was conducted. The Labor Department announced that meat increased nationally 5 per cent in February.
meat items on Feb. 8 and March 15 and the percentage of change in prices over the five months.
Dillon's proved to have the lowest meat prices. At the outset of the survey, the average meat price at Dillon was 91 cents per pound, compared to $38 cents by March 15, a 3.3 per cent increase.
Kroger's and Falley's showed the largest percentage increase of all the stores. The 14 per cent increase on the five meat items for fallerys was more than double the age increase of the combined six stores.
Rusty's had the lowest increase, 2 per cent, for the five weeks. Yet Rusty's 23rd Street store had the highest average meat price and the third highest price by March.
Falley's and Kroger's also had the highest average meat prices March 15. Falley's charged $1.16 a pound, Kroger's $1.94 a pound. Kroger's paid price March 15 was 94 cents at Dillon's.
Medved said the survey was due April 9 and could be carried out for only one more week. He planned to check prices in the area, including the Kansas City area next week.
The survey included all food products such as vegetables, fruits, dairy products
Trends in price increases were apparent over the period that the survey was taken. A gradual increase of one cent a week, for example, was noticed on some packaged food items. The slight increase was observed by many shopers, Medved said.
Price increases were staggered, Medveda said. A few items would rise one week, then others would shoot up the following week. The price jump was due to that a price jump was coming, he said.
The students found that buying bulk meat was cheaper. Lunch meat and bacon that were sold in large, unsliced slabs were priced lower than prepackaged products. Usually the store sliced the meat free of charge.
Medved said that large economy packs of hamburger were also cheaper but that the buyer had to purchase up to four pounds of meat. Unless the buyer had ample freezer space, large quantity buying was not practical, he said.
Weed and Medved found that every store
had cheap items, but the overall prices tended to even out any savings.
Store displays of sale items were found to be deceptive at times, they said. The sale item would be placed next to the most expensive product to create a sharp contrast in quality. The shopper then inclined to pick up the expensive product, but when it was no longer needed, said, the shopper often picked up the closest substitute, the expensive product.
They also cited examples of "specialists" priced four to five cents higher than they were a few days before the special price was advertised.
A Lawrence Matron Examines Vegetable Produce in a Local Grocery
One way to save on meat, dieticians say, is to substitute selected combinations of vegetables
Medved and Weed recommended that consumers stock up when prices were low or rising.
Medved and Weed concluded that the discount stores did not give overall reductions in prices. In fact, the discount stores competently with other retailers, they said.
Kansas Staff Photo by PRES BRANDSTED
Less Meat, Selected Vegetables Can Yield Cheap, Balanced Diets
By LARRY FISH
Kansan Staff Writer
Students interested in cutting food costs should be prepared to cut down on meat consumption and use more imagination in cooking, according to two nutritionists.
"if you want to save money, the main place to cut down is on meat," said Marie Cross, associate professor who teaches in the department of human development.
"Meat is not an absolute essential; it is a convenience," she said.
The meat is a complete protein, having all the amino acids which the body cannot make for itself, she explained. Most plant sources contain many of these amino acids in the correct proportion.
Soybeans are the only plant source of complete protein, she said. A balanced diet still is possible without meat as long as plant sources which make up for each other's deficiencies are eaten together, she said.
Cross recommended "Diet for a Small Planet," by Frances Moore Lappe, as a practical guide for those wishing to learn to cook. It covers the paper back edition available locally.
Oetha Blevins, a home economist with the Douglas County Extension Service, also praised Laphe's book. The Extension Program offers recipes that has as many recipes using soybeans.
Soybeans for cooking are available for 15 cents a pound at local feed stores or for 40 cents a pound for organically grown soybeans at health stores and groceries.
"There is no proof that organically grown soybeans are any more nutritious." Cross
Cross and Blevins emphasized that vegetable diets could be too low in iron, especially for women. Blevins recommended eating many green leaf vegetables, such as spinach, collards, and greens to assure adequate iron consumption.
However, the type of pork is important,
seas. Pork shop contain much more
money than beef.
All liver is high in iron and relatively inexpensive and it can be used to supplement a primarily vegetarian meal, Blevins said.
"BE WILLING to start out with cheaper cuts of meat, taking more time and more effort," he says.
"Pork is cheaper than beef and higher in vitamin B1, and it's not that much fatter."
Other foods rich in protein, such as cottage cheese, baked beans and macaroni and cheese are inexpensive and easy to prepare, she said.
Chicken and fish also can be used in place of meat, and eggs are an excellent sub-
"I think it will be good for people to be more conscious of what they're eating,"
Blevins said, "I think the hope is in college people learning nutrition. I've been teaching nutrition since the 40s, and I've encouraged. People eat just what they like."
One method of saving on meat is to watch sales and to buy in large quantities, per person.
Big Purchases Allow Savings
Pat Weiss, Consumer Protection Agency (CPA) researcher, has compiled a list of area store prices for a side of beef. The prices are quite low per pound of meat, considering that steaks, roasts and hamburger are included in the deal.
Here are prices per pound at various local stores for a side of beef. Dillon's, 79 cents; Falley's, 65 cents; Kroger's, 85 cents; A&P, 85 cents; J.C. Penney, 79 cents; Levi's, 74 cents; Rusty's, 85 cents.
Storage prices in freezer locker vary from $1 for six months at Leb's to $6.25 for eight months at Walmart.
Consumer Report