re: Today I Learned: Hippos were almost released to Louisiana bayous

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How was there a meat crisis? Maybe during Dust Bowl/Depression era, but that was a generation later.

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America was withering under a serious meat shortage at the time. Beef prices had soared as rangeland had been ruined by overgrazing, and a crippled industry struggled to satisfy America’s explosively growing cities, an unceasing wave of immigrants, and a surging demand for meat abroad

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