Pork Has Improved - But
Consumers Don’t Know It
Have you ever heard of a ics. the average hog today yields
three-shammed hog? 14% pounds more lean meat—or
■ about the weight of an extra
ißdbert W. Nelson has. And he ham—than did the average hog
is secretary of the Pork Indus- 12 years ago.”
try Committee of the National
Live Stock and Meat Board in
Chicago. elusion that today’s hog is just
„ . , ~ , that much heavier than yester-
So he should know. . , , ... ~
Nelson explains it this way: da y s h °S- consider thls addl '
"Because of tremendous strides tional information from Nelson:
in the fields of feeding and genet- the total weight difference is ac-
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tually less than two pounds more.
Nelson explains, "... that alO
percent increase in amount of
lean has been accompanied by a
26 percent decrease in the
amount of fat and lard.”
In other words more lean and
less fat, more protein and fewer
calories ... just whav. the doctor
ordered; and what the modern
weight-conscious consumer is de
manding.
“As a matter of fact,” said
Nelson, “pork today has 36 per
cent fewer calories and 57 per
cent less fat than food composi
tion tables once indicated. Pork
products contain as much ... or
more ... protein, as other ani
mal protein foods.
“In spite of this, many home
makers still consider pork to be
fat, wasty, hard to digest and a
food to be avoided in warm
weather or for weight reducing.
These attitudes were revealed in
a recent national consumer sur
vey conducted by the Meat
Board and the U.S. Department
of Agriculture ”
Research has shown, the in
dustry executive said, that pork
is nearly 100 percent digestible;
is as acceptable in weight-reduc
ing diets and for warm weather
eating as other protein foods
•‘And certainly it’s a nutritious
and tasty food,” he added
Nelson said that homemakers
who deny themselves and their
families the benefits of pork be
cause of “old wives tales that
linger on” also are missing a
bet where the food budget is
concerned
“On a cost-per-serving basis—
which is a more realistic meas
ure of food expenditures than
cost-per-pound—pork offers ex
cellent values which have gone
unrecognized by many home
makers,” he said. “The home
maker can get from 2V4 to five
servings of ham, pork chops,
pork steaks, etc., per pound as
compared, for instance, with
I*3 servings per pound of chick
en ”
As further evidence of the de
velopment of the meat-type hog
in this country. Nelson noted
that U S Department of Agxi
culture grade standards w ere
changed on April 1 1968 U S.-
D A made the change to pio
\ ide better measures of the mar
ket value of these high-quality,
more lean, less fat porkers
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Sec. Freeman Calls Sediment
Number One Water Pollutant
Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L. Freeman today called
for intensified public and private
cooperation to protect the Na
tion’s land and water from the
“ravages of erosion and destruc
tive sediment.”
In a message to the American
Waterworks Association meeting
in Cleveland, the Secretary said
that soil washing or blowing
from rural lands and suburban
developments "is costing the
American people $5OO million a
year.”
Describing sediment as
“America’s number one pollu
tant,” Secretary Freeman pledg
ed all-out Department of Agri
culture support of State and lo
cal efforts to halt this “resource
loss” through erosion control
measures
Secretary Freeman said some
4 billion tons of sediment are
washed into our waterways and
reservoirs each year, an amount
equivalent to about 4 million
acres of topsoil. An increasing
amount of this sediment comes
from suburban construction,
where land is often stripped of
its natural cover, and allowed to
remain bare fo’’ prolonged peri
ods, permitting soil to wash or
blow aw'ay.
“The Department ot Agricul
ture over the years has develop
ed an impressn e array of princi
ples and techniques for dealing
with soil erosion problems,” the
Secretary pointed out “These
are applicable anywhere, an sub
urban housing de\ elopments as
well as on the farm ”
USDA scientists and techni
cians, who have helped to estab
lish sound conservation systems
on millions of acres of agricul
tural land, now are working
with more and more community
planners, land developers, build
ers, and engineers to help assure
a stable soil during and follow
ing urban development, Secre
tary Freeman said
“But greater coordination of
planning and action are essen
tial,” Mr Freeman said m a
statement expanding on his mes
sage. He called for front rank
leadership and contributions by
State and local governments,
and the cooperation of pm ate
organizations, developers, and
property owners to fight soil
erosion resulting from improper
use of land in tiansition fiom
agricultural to urban use
“We are helping about 300
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communities a year to work out
comprehensive development
plans based on sound soil and
water conservation principles.”
he said "But many more com
munities need to apply these
principles now ”
Mr. Freeman said that the
costly effects of soil erosion and
sediment damage can be seen
in roadways made dangerous or
destroyed; in reservoirs filled
with silt and made useless; in
severely hampered navigation
on the major river’ and in
streams contaminated with mine
acid
Secietary Freeman said stud
ies reveal that in some parts of
the Potomac River near Wash
ington sediment is more than
nine feet thick Over 50 million
tons of soil is lost each year by
eiosion in the Potomac Basin,
and 2*2 million tons of this soil
is dischaiged as sediment into
the Potomac estuary
According to Department of
Agncultme estimates, the cost
of keeping soil on the land runs
about 3 to 5 cents a cubic yard,
v hile it costs $1 a cubic yard to
dredge sediment from the Po
tomac at Washington in order
to keep the channel open to nav
igation
At least half of all sediment
comes from soil erosion on farm
and ranch lands, Mr Freeman
said It includes topsoil needed
for efficient crop production
Other serious sources of sedi
ment cited by Secretary Free
man include streambank and
roadside erosion Streambank
erosion destroys an estimated
$ll million worth of land along
stream channels each year.
Roads and highways needing
treatment annually contribute
millions of tons of soil to
streams harbors and reservoirs.
In addition, more than 2 mil
lion acies of abandoned stnp
mines and their spoil areas are
polluting sti earns and reservoirs
with sediment and acid drain
age
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