“…Requisitioning under quota, with higher fixed prices subsidized by the war effort, brought out the animals; holding grounds and stock routes funneled them to the center, where they were distributed via the Meat Supply Board. African producers were squeezed as never before, but white producers at last got the resources, the outlets, and the voice in government that they had wanted (Lonsdale 1986). Wartime measures could not address the deeper problems-their object was to feed the war effort-but they did point the way.…”