Expansion Of Food Supply Must
Come From Technology Advance
Any significant expansion of Technologists at the Sheraton
nation's food supply will have to Motor Inn, 12th and 42nd St.,
come from additional technolo- New York, DeGraff said:
glcal advances rather than ex- “It is disturbing that we hear
pamion of agriculture’s physical so much criticism of the techno
resources, Herrell DeGraff, pre- logy necessary today on the
Sident of the American Meat In- farms and in the food industries
stitute, said this week. to meet the food needs of an
Addressing the New York ever-increasing population, and
Section of the Institute of Food from an agricultural resource
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base that cannot be significant
ly expanded. The essential
‘stretch’ has to be technology.
A unit of land or a unit of
breeding livestock is not a static
entity as long as technology
continues to expand its yield
potential.”
DeGraff described as a seri
ous problem for the food indus
try the criticisms that have
been directed against the use of
fertilizers and pesticides, “with
out which there would definite
ly not be food abundance even
for today’s population.”
He continued: “When we are
as far advanced in technology as
we are today, it goes almost
without saymg that we are
working always at the edge of
our knowledge and understand
ing Every field of science per
tinent to our food is facing real
challenges.
“If the decades behind us
have belonged to the biological
scientist and the agronomist,
the years ahead may well be-
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Lancastor Farming. Saturday. September 20. 1969
Conservation Corner
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The grass is greener on the other side of the fence!
long to your fraternity, the food portant items, because demand
;echnologists ” outruns the immediately avail-
Amencans today get their able supply and higher price is
food supply with the least necessary to call forth more
amount of total economic effort production as quickly as adjust
ever known to any sizeable ments can be made ”
population group something , , „
under one day of work out of DeGraff described the cui>
the five day work week of the consumerism movement
typical family, DeGraff said f® ® by-product oi technology in
“Our problem is that the pub that the homemaker faces an
hc is seldom concerned with, or creasing complexities in her job
students of, or much impressed being the purchasing agent
with what is commonplace Oui for her fam “ y
food is so abundant, so varied,
so universally available that our
typical citizen takes it for gi ant
ed,” he said.
“He gets it so cheaply, by all Gieat Seal of the United States
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gives it little thought. He, or Thomson and William Barton,
she, seems even to get - angry and approved by the Continental
when the price goes up for im- Congress.
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