Home Ec Colleges
Receive Pork Kits
Prompted by the results of a
recent educational study among
Allentown area high schools,
Pennsylvania Pork Producers
are out to increase awareness of
the nutritive value and eating
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quality of the new lean pork.
Aimed at reaching consumers
through home economics
educational channels, the Penn
sylvania Pork Producers Council
has distributed the latest
nutrition information on pork to
13 colleges in the state that offer
home economics degrees.
This program was started as
the result of the Allentown
project which indicated “high
school home economics teachers
have a crying need for up-to-date
nutritional information on pork,”
according to Herb Schick,
secretary-treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers
Council.
Materials in the kit, produced
by (he Pork Industry Group of the
Meat Board (PIG-MB), include
brochures, slides, handbooks and
charts containing the latest in
formation on selection, handling,
storing and cooking of pork. Two
full-color films tell the story of
the new pork and show many
ways it can be prepared.
Valuable dietary and nutritional
information is also provided in
authoritative manuals such as
“Lessons on Meat” and “The
Nutritive Value of Cooked Meat.”
The entire cost of the kit for
each college, about $4OO, is being
defrayed by the Pennsylvania
Pork Producers Council, through
voluntary investments made by
producers on the hogs they
market, in their continuing ef
forts to improve pork’s image in
the mind of the consumer.
The Pennsylvania Pork Pork Producers
recently presented nutrition education kits
to 13 Pennsylvania colleges offering
degrees in home economics. Shown here at
the Cheyney State College presentation
are, left to right: John Henkel, Strasburg
swine producer and a director of the
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Businessmen, Consumers
Said to Have Same Aims
Consumer advocates and
businessmen share the same
goals, according to Judd H.
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Alexander, vice president,
American Can Co. “They are
both striving to create a bet
ter life for themselves, their
children, their countrymen,
and their world,” he said in
NAM Reports, published by
the National Association of
Manufacturers.
He pointed out that “a
schism of distrust” has de
veloped between the producer
and the consumer and said
they must be brought back
together, “if the sublime ob
jective they shire is to be
attained.”
Mr. Alexander wrote that
the flame of distrust is fanned
by the “self-appointed” con
sumerist which might result
in the wiping out of a prod
uct, business or industry.
Citing the volunteer com-
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National Pork'Producers Council; Mark
Nestleroth, Manheim, preseident of the
Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council;
Catherine Walker, home economics
professor at Cheyney State; and Ed Thum,
representing the National Pork Producers
Council.
munity efforts of collecting
cans and bottles for recycling,
he said that the action is
noble and is highly motivated.
“We do have a solid waste
problem and something must
be done,” the article stated.
“However, look at some other
facets of the situation. Glass
bottles are made from sand,
limestone and potash in al
most exactly the same propor
tion that these materials
exist in the earth’s crust.
The supply of these raw ma
terials is sufficient to make
glass bottles at the current
world rate for about three
billion years.
“The annual per capita
consumption of metal cans
for everything including
beer, corn, peas and hairspray
is 316 cans, or about 30
pounds in weight. The scrap
value of a year’s supply is
about 32 cents, not enough to
offset the cost of the gallon
of gasoline used to drive the
cans to the collection station
All the cans used in the nation
represent less than two per
cent of all collectible waste.
Since our waste is growing at
four per cent a year, the com
plete elimination of all cans
would delay our solid waste
crisis by about five months!”
Mr. Alexander summed up
the problem with two choices:
“We can modernize our 1920
waste system from its creak
ing, antiquated under-fi
nanced waste collection and
disposal system to 1972 stand
ards, or we can reduce our
1972 consumption patterns to
1920 levels. I believe the
former choice will prove to be
less costly, less disruptive,
and far more effective.”
He noted that the key to a
modern waste handling fa
cility is recovery of the metal
cans by magnetic separation
at the disposal site. This is
being done now in Atlanta,
Chicago, Tampa, Wilmington
and a dozen other cities.
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