U.S. Farm Bureau Adopts Resolutions
Voting delegates from member
state Farm Bureaus to the 53rd
annual meeting of the American
Farm Bureau Federation in the
Conrad Hilton Hotel, called for
new federal legislation to speed
up the settlement of strikes in the
transportation industry.
This was one of the resolutions
presented to the voting delegates
of the member state Farm
Bureaus by the convention
resolutions committee. To a
great extent these resolutions are
based on recommendations from
member state Farm Bureaus.
The resolution calls for “im
mediate” enactment of federal
legislation “to provide more
effective means for protecting
the public interest in tran
sportation strikes.” It supports a
plan of arbitration under which
the arbiters would choose bet
ween the final offers of the two
parties to the dispute
In the case of dock strikes like
the ones that paralyzed many
ports during the last half of 1971
and forced down the prices of
grain and soybeans to producers,
the resolution said (1) those in-
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jured should be allowed to file
suits for compensation and (2)
state governments should be
allowed to operate port facilities
under emergency powers during
strikes.
The U.S. Senate labor and
public welfare committee has
resumed hearings on S. 560 and
other bills relating to procedures
for settling longshore and other
transportation disputes.
William J. Kuhfuss, president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, reported that some
estimates place net farm losses
at about $1 billion as the result of
the effects on farm prices of
grains due to the chaotic
marketing condition created by
the dock strikes.
The resolutions presented to
the voting delegates also called
for “an all-out campaign” to
secure enactment of the National
Agricultural Marketing and
Bargaining Act the Sisk bill
this year.
The Sisk bill provides that
processors must bargain in good
faith with representatives of
qualified farmers’ marketing
associations. The legislation
applies only to farm products
marketed under contract such as
processed fruits and vegetables.
“Reasonable people should be
able to negotiate and come to
conclusions or agreements
without compulsion—provided
that there are reasonable rules to
be followed,” the resolution
stated. The resolution pointed out
that Farm Bureau “seeks only
equity in bargaining —not
politically imposed compulsion.”
The Sisk bill is sponsored by 101
members ot Congress. U.S.
Representative Sisk (D) of
Fresno, California, addressed the
Tuesday morning general session
of the convention and received
resounding applause from some
6,000 farmers in attendance
U.S Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz, making his first
appearance before a farm
audience since his confirmation
by the U.S Senate, said he was
for farmers having more
bargaining power so that they
can have more “say” over their
prices and terms of sale so that
they—the farmers—remain in
control of farming Butz said he
would testify in support of the
Sisk bill
Inflation control is another
issue given top priority in the
resolutions submitted to voting
delegates.
The resolutions on this insisted
upon prompt action by Congress
and the Administration to reduce
the federal deficit for 1972 and
called for a balanced budget next
year.
A one-year extension of the
President’s economic controls
was called for in another
resolution, but it was stressed
that such controls can “at best”
bring about short-term results
Other resolutions •
—Support “more strict
enforcement of laws
protecting private and
public property ”
—Support retention of
USDA as a cabinet-level
department.
—Call for work toward a
market oriented
agriculture and the
elimination ot com-
pensatory payments while
allowing the Agricultural
Act of 1970 to operate
through the 1973 crop year
—Oppose “strategic
reserve” programs as
“bad for producers, costly
for taxpayers, and un
necessary for the
protection of consumers.”
—Oppose “a complete ban
on the use of any
agricultural drug and
chemical unless it can be
demonstrated positively by
prolonged and responsible
research that the use of
such product represents a
clear and present danger
to health or that such use
would seriously jeopardize
our environment ”
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 18,1971 —
—Call for “a mandatory
program under which
livestock producers would
certify that they have
followed established
directions concerning the
required withdrawal
period in connection with
animal drugs and feed
additives ”
—Call for a moratorium on
increases in federal
grazing fees.
—Oppose limits on federal
payments to participants
in government farm
programs.
—Reiterate that a U.S
farm export goal of $lO
billion per year is at
tainable “if we dedicate
our efforts to supplying the
demands for increased
food and fiber consumption
throughout the world ”
—Call for an end, “as soon
as practicable,” to the
surcharge on imports
—Advocate Congressional
passage of a federal farm
labor relations bill to meet
Livestock Leaders Take
Diet Exhibit
The concern of livestock
association leaders regarding
misunderstanding and misin
formation on animal fats and
heart disease has prompted
action to help clear up the con
fusion.
It was this action that made it
possible for the National Live
Stock and Meat Board to produce
an attractive eye-catching
exhibit which carried the
livestock and meat industry’s
side of the story to well over a
thousand doctors attending the
American Heart Association’s
annual convention m Anaheim,
Calif., November 9-14
Beef, pork and lamb groups
cooperating financially in
sponsoring the exhibit include the
American Angus Assn , National
Pork Producers Council,
American Sheep Producers
Council, National Lamb Feeders
Assn and National Wool Growers
Assn., Lamb Education Com
mittee
Viewers of the Meat Board
exhibit are asked tape-recorded
agriculture’s special
needs, including a ban on
secondary boycotts
—Ask for preservation and
expansion of the
agricultural exemption
from present truck tran
sportation regulations.
—Emphasize that rural
development must be
generated through local
initiative, aided by loans,
grants, depreciation
allowances, or investment
credits on federal taxes
—Call for abolition of the
Office of Economic Op
portunity (OEO)
—Support the food stamp
program “as a means of
assisting those truly in
need ”
—Stress the need for
adequate national security
services
—Reaffirm their abiding
faith in American Con
stitutional government, the
private enterprise system,
and man’s inalienable
right to worship God
to Doctors
questions such as Is diet related
to heart disease 9 Does type of
dietary fat cause development of
atherosclerosis in humans 9 Is
there some other mechanism or
combination of mechanisms
involved 9
Following the questions, a
viewing mechanism suggests
some 16 variables that could
possibly be related to
atherosclerosis The taped
message then continues,”
many medical scientists believe
it is premature to suggest thai
diet modification is an answer
As a professional person, what do
you think 9 ”
Doctors then have an op
portunity to tell what they think
by filling out the questionaire
which is included in a folder
distributed at the exhibit The
folder itself also presents the
livestock and meat industry view
citing scientific reports on
the dietary fat-heart disease
hypothesis
Two pertinent reprints from
highly respected Medical
Counterpoint Magazine are also
included One, by its editor, Dr
Mark Altschule of Harvard
Medical School, traces the long
but unsuccessful search for
evidence to support the dietary
hypothesis The other, by Dr
Edward R Pinckney, Beverly
Hills, Calif, expresses alarm
over “commercialism” in
promoting polyunsaturated
(vegetable) fats and oils as part
of the dietary hypothesis
Finally, physicians arc assured
that the livestock and meat in
dustry is willing to seek product
changes if saturated animal fats
should ever prove to be i culprit
in heart disease
The exhibit will iso be
displayed at the A encan
Medical Association innual
meeting in San France June
18-22, 1972, and possibh other
major medical i etings
throughout the country
“Pastoral Epistles”
The epistles in the New
Testament known as the
“pastoral epistles’’ are the
first and second epistles to
Timothy and the epistle to
Titus They contain the ad
vice of a pastor concerning
church government, church
officials, teachings and
Christian faithfulness and
endurance.
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