Poultry industry feels 6 hatchet job 9 By DIETER KRIEG LANCASTER - The poultry industry is in trouble, according to many of its top leaders, and poultrymen everywhere are being encouraged to write letters to senators who are responsible for their present woes. A government publication released earlier this .year, entitled “Dietary Goals for the United States” is causing the dismay and is said to have the potential of having a devastating effect on the egg, dairy and beef in dustries. The issue at stake is that the government has issued dietary guidelines for Americans. While the controversial publication isn’t officially designated as such by officials in the nation’s capital, that’s what many agricultural leaders consider it to be. Many consumers who read the pamphlet, which is presently going out at a faster rate than any other government publication, will buy the contents as gospel truth and therefore be influenced by it when they go to the supermarket, say objectors to the “Dietary Goals” booklet. The publication is the work of the Senate Select Com- JOHN J. HESS 11, INC. mittee on Nutrition and Human Needs, chaired by Democratic Senator George McGovern from South Dakota. (See related story beginning on page 1). In the words of Hank Simpson, president of the Northeast Egg Marketing Council, the egg industry is the victim of a “hatchet job” as a result of the report on dietary recommendations made by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. What bums the egg people up even worse is that as of this writing they have not been granted the chance to be heard. That’s why they’re pushing the letter writing campaign. “The meat industry had its chance to be heard-we want our turn too!” declares Simpson. “They (The Select Committee) have made their recommendations and to my way of thinking have dealth a severe blow to the meat, dairy and egg industries,” Simpson says in a NEMA newsletter. The egg marketing association .executive goes on to say in his Spring newsletter: “If there had been an opportunity for our industry to offer its input of scientific evidence before the recommendations were BIOUYEIM 1 Bio Layena 100 Bio Layena 107 Bio Layena 114 Bio Layena 121 Bio Layena 128 The numbers after the Bio Layena rations indicate the Purina Bio-Rating. Each subsequent ration contains 7 per cent extra amino add, vitamin and mineral fortification over the previous one. For example, Bio Layena 114 contains 7 per cent more fortification than Bio Layena 107 and 14 per cent more than Bio Layena 100. 2 Values are guides only since feed use varies due to wastage, strains, etc Use local judgment as when to change rations. “Serving The Needs of the Agricultural Community” calL^”^7-442-4632 offered-that would be one thing. No opportunity was offered. Now that the damage is done, the Com mittee shows no disposition to hear oral testimony from the United Egg Producers (UEP) and the egg industry taking issue with their fin dings.” He urges that messages be sent to any of the eight senators who serve on the Committee. Aside from McGovern, they are: Edward Kennedy, (Massachusetts); Patrick Leahy (Vermont); Robert Dole, (Kansas); Richard Schweiker, (Pennsylvania); Hubert Humphrey, (Min nesota); Edward Zorinsky, (Nebraska); and Charles Percy, (Illinois). Any senator can be addressed at the Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; Hendrik Wentink, chairman of the National Commission on Egg Nutrition, a non-profit truth finding concern, says he’s grateful that petty dif ferences have been put aside by many agricultural groups and that a unison effort may be exerted. “It’s a tremendous step in the right direction,” he remarked. Cattlemen, farm organizations and poultry groups have cooperated well so far in the drive to have the USE THEY LAY EGGS. 810 LAYENA INTAKE GUIDES PRE PERK 2 '(18-28 whs) POST PERK 2 (28 wks.+) In House Daily Feed Intake Maximum Temperature Lbs/100 Hens/Day Senate Committee listen to them. A letter which NEMA executives Homer Simpson Jr. and William S. Rent sent to senators in behalf of Northeastern egg producers says in part: “To say that the nation’s egg industry is very disturbed over the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs (Dietary Goals for the United States) recommendations is a gross understatement of our concern. “To recommend that Americans should decrease consumption of eggs and other high cholesterol food gives Congessional validity to the very controversy the egg industry has spent countless time and money in combating. “It ignores the mass of testimony which has been presented before the Federal Trade Commission during this past year, both on FTC proposed regulations on food advertising and the FTC judicial proceeding against the National Commission on Egg Nutrition. The report tends to tell Americans that there is no question but that reducing dietary cholesterol will reduce one’s chances of developing coronary heart.” Utilizing extensive laboratory tests and feeding experiments, Purina nutritionists have reviewed the hen’s requirements in addition to nutrient content, availability and market value of essential ingredients. These facts are used in conjunction with electronic computer techniques to formulate Purina Bio-4 Laying Chows. To meet the needs of poultry producers throughout the U.S., the Purina Bio-Rated Poultry Chows offer the flexibility for producers to choose the ration they need for their particular poultry operations. The key is to match a level of ration fortification that will provide the nutrient intake that a particular house of layers needs without any shortages or expensive and ex cessive overages. To do this weekly records of feed intake are necessary. Such records will return much more than effort involved to maintain them. Below GOT 60-7 OT 70-80“? 80-90 T Above 90°F Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 30,1977 According to spokesmen at the office of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, critics have overreacted to the govern ment publication. It’s also emphasized that the studies and investigations on nutrition will continue - thereby implying that the “door hasn’t been closed on anyone.” The report released earlier this year is not to be viewed as final. The fact remains, however, that by publishing the report, a degree of finality is implied. One of the reasons cited for the study in the first place is to reduce health care costs through preventitive Airplanes on display DOVER, DEL.-Dover Air Force Base will host an Open House on Saturday, May 14 in observance of Armed Forces Day and honoring the 200th anniversary of Dover as the capital of Delaware. Taking part in the com munity appreciation day will be the Thunderbirds, the Air Force’s aerial demon stration team. The Open House will start at 10 a.m. with a variety of aircraft open to the public to walk through and inspect. In Over 25.0 23.4 to 25.0 21.7 to 23.3 20.0 to 21.6 Under 20.0 lbs. measures. It’s widely believed that diets are in fluential in health problems. Spokesmen at the Nutrition Committee’s office openly acknowledge that the report contains numerous weaknesses and that they will be looked into. At least one of them concerns the egg industry. No definite hearing date to receive testimony from the egg industry has been decided upon, nor has to been definitely acknowledged that poultrymen will be heard. It’s reported that Senator McGovern will have the closing word on that. addition to the numerous aircraft on display, units assigned to Dover AFB will have displays showing their role in toe Air Force. The day’s program will end at 5 p.m. The Thunderbirds fly the Northrop T-38 Talon. This supersonic aircraft is used as a jet trainer in toe ad vanced portion of Air Force pilot training. Since their inception in 1954, the Thunderbirds have per formed in over 80 nations around toe world. 17
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