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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-
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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
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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
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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.”
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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
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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.
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