Canada's lower meat prices have long been the envy of U.S. housewives. Last week, T-bone steaks were 70¢ a lb. in Lethbridge and sirloin was 75¢ in Ottawa. This was a third less than New Yorkers were paying, but Canadian housewives thought the prices outrageous. In Ottawa they paraded with a papier-mâché cow, demanding a rollback. They would certainly protest more loudly if prices jumped againas prices certainly would if the government lifted the embargo on beef shipments to the U.S. Yet cattlemen in Calgary, selling choice steers for record prices as high as $23.70 a cwt., griped because...
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