FACULTY!!
Are your class notes ready for fall?
Let us furnish your students with copies of your preferred study materi
als. Fast turnaround-Econonical rates. Convenient. Plenty of Parking
across campus on Texas Ave.
Call Mike or Gaylen 693-2679
40
COPY
CENTER
707 Texas Ave Bldg. A-110
University
Drive
T.A.M.U.
t/J
<
s
Texas Ave.
Bldg. A-110
Binding • Transparencies • Blueline Paper
Page 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, July 26, 1988
Beef industry
trims back fat
Macintosh Plus
Now as Easy to Own
As It Is To Use.
Only $68.00 Per Month
693-8080
2553 Texas Ave. South
01988 Apple Computers Inc., Apple Macintosh
are trade marks of Apple Computers, Inc.
Authorized Reseller
INTERNATIONA!
HOUSE e'EMOKis.
RESTAURANT
$2.99
Mon:
Burgers French Fries
Tues:
Buttermilk Pancakes
Wed:
Burgers French Fries
Thur:
Hot Dogs & French Fries
Fri:
Catfish Nuggets & Fries
Sat:
French Toast
Sun:
Spaghetti & Meat Sauce
By Lisa Williams
Reporter
The American consumer has
made it clear that “fat is out and lean
is in” and the beef industry has re
sponded by putting 1.2 million
pounds less fat in the meat case each
day.
“The beef industry has gotten out
of the business of producing and
selling fat,” Dr. Russell Cross, a meat
scientist with the A&M animal sci
ence department, said.
“As a result of meat basket surveys
(including the National Household
Beef Consumer Study and the Na
tional Consumer Retail Beef Study
conducted in 1983 and 1986), which
expressed consumer demand for
lean meat, packers and retailers im
mediately started trimming beef
from one-half inch to one-fourth
inch external fat,” Cross said.
In fact, Cross said, a 1987 study
commissioned by the American
Meat Institute showed that 87 per
cent of retail chains offered cuts with
one-fourth-inch trim and that the
average outside fat. is now one-
eighth inch. The study found that 42
percent of beef cuts have no measur
able external fat.
“When retailers trim beef of extra
fat, as the market basket studies
show they are doing, they’re helping
to make lean meat a more conve
nient product for consumers,” Cross
said.
And, he said, retailers are not
likely to stop at one-eighth-inch
trim, knowing that consumers don’t
want plate waste. He expects trends
to continue, resulting in more bone
less cuts, with seam fat and all exter
nal fat removed.
He said chains such as Kroger and
Safeway have responded immedi
ately to the industry’s findings by re
ducing the amount of plate waste,
ibut said fat inside lean meat, called
marbling, is important for taste ap
peal.
“For acceptable taste, a minimum
of 3 percent fat inside the meat is re
quired,” he said.
From a nutritional standpoint, na
tional health organizations recom
mend beef not to exceed 7.5 percent
fat inside the meat.
“The beef industry is listening,”
Cross said, “because almost all the
lean beef found in the grocery store
falls into a 3 to 7.5 percent fat
range.”
Cross attributes the leanness in
the meat cases today to new, accu
rate information that comes with up
dated beef studies.
“Public attention has been focused
on misconceptions giving beef a bad
name,” he said. “Many shoppers are
relying on information that is based
on studies that are 30 years old.
Even the USD A data bases are out
dated.”
Cross said that in the 1970s every
one thought beef was the perfect
product; everyone wanted to buy it;
everyone wanted to eat it.
In 1976, 94.4 pounds of beef were
being sold at retail outlets per per
son in the United States. But, from
1976 to 1983, retail beef-cuts de
clined to 78.7 pounds (nearly 16
pounds less), and by 1987, the
weight per capita had fallen to 70
pounds per person.
Dr. Cross relates this decrease in
consumption to a flurry of reports
prompted by Sen. McGovern’s Select
Committee on Diet/Health that
claimed beef was unhealthy — too
high in cholestrol, calories and fatty
acids and responsible for the wide
spread obesity among the U.S. pop
ulace.
“For instance,” Cross said, “recent
reports show that beef, poultry and
E ork differ only slightly in their cho-
isterol levels, and certain cuts of
beef have fewer calories than most
expect.”
justice system
'broke,’ director says
ALL YOU CAN EAT $2"
6 p.ini.-6 a.m.
Ho take outs • must present this ad
Expires 6/30/88
Rooty Tooty $2
49
2 eggs, 2 pancakes, 2 sausage, 2 bacon
good Mon.-rri. Anytime
International House of Pancakes
Restaurant
103 S. College Skaggs Center
GALVESTON (AP) — The Texas
criminal justice system is “broke”
and, despite a massive prison build
ing program, there is no quick fix in
sight, the state prison director said
Monday.
“We don’t have a good solution to
the overcrowding problem. We
didn’t get into it overnight and we
are not getting out of it overnight,”
James Lynaugh, Texas Department
of Corrections director, said at the
Texas Daily Newspaper Associa
tion’s summer meeting.
The prison construction program
under way includes 2,250-inmate,
maximum-security units in Amarillo
and Gatesville, four 1,000-bed me
dium-security prisons and 12 trusty
camps, each holding 200 inmates.
Private prisons that will hold seve
ral thousand inmates also are in the
works.
But Lynaugh said he would ask
the 1989 Legislature for money to
build 10,000 more beds, or find a
way to divert 10,000 felons into
other programs.
TDC now can hold 38,900 in
mates.
“Ninty-five percent of all my in
mates will serve less than six years,
the term of a TDC board member,”
Lynaugh said.
“The criminal justice system in
my op
rail
inion, it’s broke. We lack an
overall goal, and withoyt an overall
goal, planning for growth is diffi
cult.”
Lynaugh called on communities
to improve services for parolees and
probationers and for lawmakers to
review sentencing laws. He said
some felons convicted of less serious
offenses should be given a chance to
do community service and other
projects instead of going to prison.
Lynaugh predicted that the pres
sure on TDC could increase in com
ing years with the end of a lawsuit
that will force the Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retarda
tion to release people from its facili
ties.
“I can tell you that TDC will ulti
mately end up with an awful lot of
those people,” he said. “They’re not
really the criminals you think of, but
your local police and your local citi
zens get tired of messing with them
and sooner or later they are con
victed and I’ll end up with them.”
At the end of his talk, which was
entitled “Understanding the Texas
Prison System,” Lynaugh said, “I’ve
not painted a very bright picture. As
I’ve said, the system is broke.
“I don’t really know how to ex
plain the system.”
National Briefs
Forest fire rages in Yellowstone Park
Associated Press
A 2,500-acre forest fire in
Yellowstone National Park
burned to within nine miles of
Old Faithful geyser Monday and
two other fires were less than a
mile from a closed hotel in the
country’s first national park.
Altogether, fires burning Mon
day in Yellowstone had charred
roughly 40,000 acres of the 2.2
million-acre park.
“These are conditions that we
haven’t seen in the recorded his
tory of Yellowstone,” park
spokesman Joan Anzelmo said.
The National Weather Service
said the park is 7.5 inches below
normal precipitation for the year
and the Old Faithful area got less
than an inch of rain in June.
Fires also crackled across hun
dreds of acres of brush and forest
elsewhere in Wyoming and ini
parts of Idaho, Washington, Ore
gon, Utah, Colorado and )'
tana. And 53 fires were burning
Monday in Alaska, with firelight"
ers battling only 22 of them
These fires had charred about li|
million acres.
Firefighters in central
northern California mopped upl
dozens of little fires while morel
lightning strikes were reportedinj
the Sierra Nevada range.
Crews had nearly extinguished!
pair of fires in Calaveras-
Fir.
a pair ot tires in
County that burned about 1 1,000Lfi‘ 11
acres and eight homes, state for
estry officials said. ||M ne
Fire strategists met Monday atB nie
Old Faithful to map out battlfil *
plans against fires in and around at; '
Yellowstone °f !
T.W.
GOP requests hold on campaign fund:
Jars.
I. I.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re
publican officials said Monday
that $46 million in federal cam
paign money for Democrats Mi
chael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen
should be held up on grounds
there is a built-in conflict in the fi
nancing of Bentsen’s dual cam
paigns for the vice presidency
and the Senate.
A spokesman for the Federal
Election Commission, Sharon
Snyder, said, “This will probably
add some time to the deliberative
process” that must be completed
before the money is released to
the candidate for use.
be a ruling on the comp
within 10 days.
Jann Olsten, executive director b|isin
of the GOP Senate campaignUjA&
committee, said Bentsen is ex K No
peeled to spend more than $ij one (
million on his Senate re-election I sljoul
campaign in Texas. These fund: house
would he in addition to those be Ne
ing used to finance the pres: |®ck
dential campaign where Bentsen IQ go
will run for vice president on thR lb
Democratic ticket with Dukakis wis s
An unusual Texas law permit: iffle k
Bentsen to seek both the Senat;p| ()m
seat and the vice presidency si B) ine
multaneously, raising an unpret g ;
edented question for the Federal ^ ir
She said there probably would Election Commission.
Drought causes rancher arguments rj
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
simmering feud between beef
producers and dairymen has
grown more heated as Congress
wrestles with legislation to aid
drought-stricken farmers.
A group of beef cattlemen has
asked Congress to limit conces
sions to the dajrymen, while the
nation’s largest dairy farm coop
erative says additional govern
ment help is necessary to avoid
milk shortages and higher prices
at the grocery store.
James L. Powell, president of
the Texas and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Association, has
asked Texas congressmen, in
cluding House Agriculture Com
mittee Chairman Rika de la
Garza, to oppose concessions to
the dairymen that extend beyonii
suspension of a 50-cent cm in
milk price supports and drough
relief assistance programs.
Farmers in some drougliiH
stricken counties are now allowec|||
L
it
to graze cattle on land previouslti
set aside as non-productive.
Jim Eskin, spokesman for As
sociated Milk Producers Inc.of
San Antonio, the nation’s larges
dairy farm cooperative, said the
group is asking Congress not only
to suspend the 50-cent cut in
price supports, but to increase
price supports by about $1.06 pei T ues
100 pounds of milk. H g j
if Mi
W;
Hous
BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) —
Researchers have identified ge
netic mutations that lead to the
development of colon cancer, a
critical step toward the devel
opment of better treatments for a
form of cancer that kills 53,500
Americans annually.
“You can look at these genetic
alterations as the causes of cancer
—just as you can look at bacteria
as the causes of infection,” said
Dr. Bert Vogelstein of the Johns
Hopkins University School of
Mutation leading to colon cancer fount f
^ V C 1 U1
uau ha prop \/f jirwW A P's— Medicine in Baltimore. “ExcepiB Ha
it’s more complicated in cancer to fa
just as the polio virus hadtolx dean
discovered before the polio vac same
cine could be developed, so these black
genetic changes must be found proce
before cancer can be prevented In
Vogelstein said Monday in a tele who
phone interview. H'nd
Research so far suggests tktt a f
perhaps as many as seven gened t0 rei
mutations must occur for colon!: He
cancer tumors to appear nicn t
Vogelstein said. M ent
Senat
College grads offered higher salaries Jig!
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — $1,812 to $2,010, for an average
This year’s college graduates re
ceived higher salary offers than
last year’s graduates, especially in
business Fields, but the number of
job offers declined slightly,
according to a survey released
Sunday.
The largest increase was in ac
counting, with graduates receiv
ing salary offers 10.9 percent
higher than last year. The aver
age monthly offer rose from
yearly salary of $24,120.
Come see the difference
with contacts that fit right.
At TSO, the doctors of optometry know that
every contact lens prescription must be exact. The
fit precise. You must be completely comfortable.
That’s why they take the time to fit you properly.
And help you choose contacts that are both easy to
wear, and easy to care for.
Doctors at TSO also have access to all the latest
types of contacts. From soft lenses to rigid gas per-
meables to tinted lenses.
So have the doctor at TSO fit you for contacts.
You’ll see the difference immediately.
rno
Ctexas statiTqptical
Affordable Eyewear.
From A Family Of Doctors.
Doctor’s prescription required. An indepen
dent doctor of optometry is located adjacent
to some TSO locations.
Survey: Low oil prices cause concern for U.S.
Job offers in accounting wt
down slightly from 5,47
5,264, according to a
Placement Council survey
leased Sunday.
The data included offers mail
to students graduating betweel
Sept. 1, 1987, and Aug. 31,1’
Placement offices at 154 col
and universities participated w W.
the survey. Justii
chief
Tues
las i
win A
era 11
HOUSTON (AP) — The next president needs
to do something about depressed oil and gas
prices and the subsequent risk the nation faces in
becoming too dependent on foreign oil, accord
ing to a survey released Monday.
Arthur Andersen & Co.’s 1988 survey on oil
and gas reserves concluded that domestic pro
ducers don’t have enough incentive to spend
more money to explore for additional oil. Those
lower prices coupled with depleting domestic re
serves could result in dangerous foreign depen
dence, it warned.
“Current oil and gas reserve replacement
trends raise the real possibility that the U.S. will
reach the point of no return in our reliance on
imported oil sooner than many believe possible,”
said Michael F. O’Donnell, managing director of
the firm’s Worldwide Oil & Gas Industry Services
Program.
About 41 percent of the oil used in the United
States is imported, and the nation is continuing
to increase that amount.
Although he was not specific about the “no re
turn” point, O’Donnell said it would would be
reached when the nation loses control of the
source that meets its energy needs. He could not
say when that point might be reached or what
might happen to the nation then, adding that the
issue is one that must be addressed by the next
president and Congress.
The survey — an annual study of 256 publicly
owned oil and gas companies — showed that
many firms are riding out the price slump by ex
ploring only their best prospects and drilling
only those wells with the lowest cost.
“We believe this is not a strategy that can be
followed indefinitely without risking seriou 1 An
serve depletion and substantially higher fc Arno
dence on oil imports,” O’Donnell said. saint'
Recent lower oil prices have meant goodpist‘’'
to consumers. But if the demand were tosut|Mt‘es
the supply and prices increased, consffijin W<
would be the ones hurt, he noted.
“The economic reality is that to find and W<
duce the large amounts of oil and gas the (Com
needs to maintain energy independence,coldinai
nies must have the incentive to take more ha\ e
and to spend more on exploration and they®
receive an adequate price in return,” he said U
“Quick, responsible action will be requitfi
create the alternatives needed to avoid |
dally skyrocketing energy prices or contid
increased dependence on foreig
said.
toreign sources.
8008 Post Oak Mall
764-0010