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the farmers’ strike, and
USDA’s effectiveness in
dealing with agricultural
problems.
Lancaster Countian Carol
Henkel, who with her
husband, John attended that
Congress, submitted the
following report on Bute’s
presentation.
In his topic, “Actions to
Present Actions”, Butz
indicated that those in
agriculture have their work
cut out for them. The Senate
Committee on Human
Nutrition has come out with
a menu that would include 25
per cent less meat in the diet
and recently in the Roosevelt
Room of the White House a
vegetarian dinner was
served, he said.
Dr. Butz’s concern is that
the new philosophy out of
Washington is to do research
in human nutrition and tell
the American public what
they should eat. For many
years the National Institute
of Health has been doing the
bulk of the research on
human nutrition and he feels
they should continue.
Butz is not in agreement
with the farmers’ strike. He
claims people cannot strike
a biological industry. A
person cannot drop out of
farming for three months
when planting crops - it
would have to be a 12 month
strike. What the nation’s
farmers need is a friend in
the Department of
Agriculture in Washington.
There is farmer unrest
because they feel they no
longer have any spokesman
in the capitol, he said.
Butz also indicated that he
believes 100 per cent of
parity to be an obsolete
concept - as outdated and
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Butz
outmoded as the machinery
and equipment used when
parity began in 1920.
Bute suggested that the
chief power of the National
Pork Proudcers Council is at
tiie lower level of govern
ment; not as a lobby in
Washington. Instead, it is
individuals contacting their
local representatives in
Congress. The Pork
Producers Council should
primarily be an educational
promotional organization.
Campaign on issue that we
are a well-fed country and
our food is wholesome, he
advised. To exemplify his
statement, he said an
tibiotics give consumers
healthy, not un-bealthy hogs.
Bute mused that present
day society is too young to
remember wormy apples,
trichinae in pork, scabby
apples and people who
developed hunched backs
from eating tuberculin
meats.
Butz supports Secretary
Bergland, describing him as
excellent man, but having
been used badly by die White
House. Political appointees
have hampered his efforts
by their involvement with
environmentalists and
consumers, Butz said. He
claims also that the present
Administration wants to
adjust production to needs:
Butz wants to let price do the
adjusting.
The imported fire ant first
entered the United States
from South America about
1920 through the port of
Mobile, Alabama. Since then
it has become a pest in both
urban and rural areas and
today infests an estimated
135 to 150 million acres.
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