Horowitz cited studies suggesting the average intake of red meat for a Soviet citizen was half of what it had been for a subject of the tsar in 1913, that blacks under apartheid in South Africa owned more cars per capita and that the average welfare mother in the United States received more income in a month than the average Soviet worker could earn in a year.
Horowitz引用研究表明苏联公民的紅肉平均摄入量是沙皇统治时期的1913年的一半，南非種族隔離之下的黑人人均拥有汽车的数量更多，而且在美国拥有福利的母亲一个月平均得到的收入多于苏联工人一年平均的收入。