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Meat Boycott #228314

CBS Evening News for Tuesday, Apr 03, 1973
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(Studio) Meat boycott effects beginning to be felt.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(NYC) Meat sales off 25-50% in NYC.

(Los Angeles, California) Meat sales off 15-20% in Los Angeles.

(Atlanta, Georgia) Beef and pork sales down 25-40%. Chicken sales up in Atlanta. Poor areas not boycotting beef.
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase Chance Williams Luther Brown

(Chicago, Illinois) Beef sales off 30% in Chicago.

(Studio) Beef auctions having fewer cattle to sell.
REPORTER: Richard Roth; Walter Cronkite

(Newton County, Georgia) [Cattleman Lewis THOMPSON - says will hold cattle from sales.] [Tri-County Livestock Company owner Tom DALLY - says pasture good this time of year and cattlemen can let beef graze rather than sell.] Beef prices holding steady.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel

(Studio) Puerto Rico office at Lion Country Safari in Irving, California, comes up with idea of feeding lions fish in support of meat boycott.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

Reporter(s):
Williams, Chance;
Chase, Sylvia;
Brown, Luther;
Cronkite, Walter;
Rabel, Ed;
Roth, Richard
Duration:
00:04:50

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