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Show 44,000.000 ANIMALS KILLED FOR FOOD By Aseeciatsd Pre ri.KVKI.ANP Iec. S. Figures given out tonight by James R. McCrea. president of the American Meat Packers Pack-ers association, show thafsince August, Au-gust, 1914. American meat packers have supplied American, allied and neutral governments more than l,4o.-07.810 l,4o.-07.810 pounds of meat products. This Include 5.1 79 709. 93 pounds of beef and . 20.377. 817 pounds of pork. For the four years preceding the outbreak of war the total meat shipments ship-ments to all forelutt countries were 4,943 512.568 pounds. Forty million hogs and 4 000,000 cat-tWere cat-tWere s'niiFhtcred mlrjib-LJ |