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THE UNION-RECORDER, MILLEOGEVILLE. GA., APRIL 3. 1930
Americans Are Changing
Their Eating Habits'
Cmummiik Mare Fruit end VefetiMn, Mare Milk ui Dairy PrWmcti
and More Pork, Leu Beef, Cora and Wkeat
and More Poultry
By CALEB JOHNSON
In ten yuan* the erring habits of . 63 pounds of beef in the course of
the American people have under-(the year. In 192b this had fallen
jfon* a radical change.
We are eating more fruit, more
Ifreen vegetables, more poultry, more
milk and butter. We aie eating
less beef, less wheat, jess com, less
m?at generally.
The only kind of meat in which
there has been an increase in do
mestic consumption is pork, and that
increase is mainly in the frrm of
ham.
Figures compiled by the Bureau
of Home Economics of the United
States Department of Agriculture,
which reveal those fait4. throw an
interesting side-light <>n the enrage
which is going on in American life.
Xot so many years ag>* the great
majority of Americans were engag
'd in heavy manual labor. Thur
work called foi larg.. meal.- of hearty
food. Now a large und growing pro
portion of factory workers and other
laborer are machine-tender*, their
work calling for comparatively slight
muscular exertion. The wortgng-
man's dinnerpail .* no longer the in-
stitution which it once v»us. In tne
larger cities und even smoll com
munities quick-lunch count* r with
ham sandwiches and cheese sand-
wiches as it* principal staples, j, f« r |
more popular with the avi lage young
mechanic.
That is one reason why we are
changing from a nation of heavy eat-
to ® nation of moderate o&te-a.
Another in the general desirt* to
fat. So much his been said in print
and otherwise about the physical
danger of overweight that even
those who cam little about how they
look are deliberately avoiding the
fattening foods. And as for the
Kifl»—;Well, it is hardly necessary to
point out tha* they can’t keep tho*«-
boyish figures and eat the old-fash
ioned three square meals a day.
Lettuce is one item of food which
has gained most in popularity. Be
tween 1920 and 1929 our national
consumption of lettuce was multi
plied by four, from 13,000 carloads
in 1920 to over 53,000 carloads in
1929. And that indicates another
reason for the change in our eating
habits. Lettuce is one of the chief
courcea of the bculth-prcserving
vitamins, unheard of by the public
ten years ago, now generally under
stood to U- essential to the health
of everybody who does not spend
most of his or her time out of doors.
the
192
off to a shade over 51 pounds. In
the same period we reduced
average consumption of veal from
about 7 1-2 pounds to about 6 3-4
pounds. We continued to eat about
the same average amount of lumb
and mutton, but our consumptio
pork ran up in those nine j
from an average of 60 pounds t
most 74 pounds. Of all kinds ofj
meat, we are eating almost 25 per
cent !e.*s than we did twenty years
ago.
We have cut down on bread- -
wheat bread and corn bread both-
as the statictics of flour and corn-
meal shipments show. The fallir.g
off here in twenty years h nearly
40 percent.
Out of figures like these we obtain |
»t only an index of the changing!
tastes and habits of the nation, but
information of the greatest value to<
the forward-looking producers nf and
dealers in foodstuffs.
growers, for example, that their mar-j
ket is getting smaller. That should'
make many farmers consider trying
to reduce cost M production, cut
down wheat acreage, turn part of the
wheat 14nd into some other crop
which promises a better market.
The grower of corn is not so seri
ously threatened as is the wheat
farmer, for an increasing amount of
corn is being converted into pork,
probably about compensating for
the falling off of human consump
tion of corn bread.
There is every indication that the
trend in food preferences will con
tinue about as it is going now. That
means there is an enlarging oppor
tunity for the fruit and vegetable
grower. Already fruits and vege
tables total a higher value in annual
production than any other money
crop except corn. To the Western
farmer accustomed to a single crop
on large acreage, such as corn or
wheat, or the Southern farmer whose
sole staple has beefn cotton, such
crops as celery, lettuce, tomatoes,
peppers, strawberries and other small
fruits seem like kitchen garden stuff,
not worth while bothering with. But
the experience of specialists in such
crops has been that they are no
more hazardous than the grain cron-
when intelligently cultivated, that
while the investment per acre is
higher in production cost, the profit
per acre is vastly greater in good
years and at least as great in aver-j
age years.
Already the United States has
ceased to become u beef-exporting!
untry. In fact, we are importing,
ate more than three times
celery, more than six times
carloads nf carrots. Tbei
tables staaj high in the list ol foods
containing u high percentage of „ome beef from South America. With
vitamins. And we are eating about, tho fa „ iRK off in dome rtic consump-1
twice much grapefruit, cabbage.; tion , there i, „„ encouragement fori
cauliflower, wtoe, am) turnip, a, the cattlcfurmer to expand hi, »c-'
we d„l ten year, ago. , tivltie,. Hog, offer a better out-!
In 1917 we consumed about 42 look for the future, dairy farming,
gallons of milk per individual. In'looks like a stable nnd growing in- 1
1928 this had increased to 56 gnl- j d us try in which to start one’s sons.
Ions. In the same period we in- but the agricultural prizes of ten
creased our butter consumption by
three pounds per head and our use
of cheese by two pounds. That
much of this increased use of dairy
products can be traced to the “eat
less meat” campaigns is hardly to
be doubted, especially when we com
pare th«* figures showing the falling
years from now will go to the grow
ers of fruit and vegetables. If the
present tendency in food habits con
tinues they will be sitting on top of
the world in 1940.
off in the
In 1920 the
1 of i
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