C44—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Fabruary 16, 1860
DES MOINES, la. - Top
priority issues of concern to
the nation’s pork producers
were the subject of three
days of Congressional visits
by over 170 pork producers
taking part in the annual
Pork Producers Washington
Seminar, sponsored by the
National. Pork Producers
Council.
The producers,
representing 31 states,
called on their respective
delegations to authorize and
fund a National Academy of
Science review of nitrites in
food curing, and for
voluntary, rather than
mandatory nutrition
labeling.
Council spokesman said
NPPC opposes listing
suggested nutrients on all
labels, especially cholesterol
content by percentage,
which could well mislead
consumers and create un
necessary concern over
products so labeled.
The Council also asks that
labeling of imitation and or
substitute food products be
accurate and free from
labeling that would “trade
unfairly” on generic
products. NPPC
Family flocks earn
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Housewives and mothers are
turning back to a cookie jar
full of egg money. A family
flock of 100 laying pullets, if
managed well, can earn
$l,OOO a year banking money
over and above all costs as
net return to labor and
management, according to
Herbert C. Jordan, Penn
State poultry science
specialist.
“The Secret” is U well
managed; which means they
select the bird with the best
genetic potential. After this
you keep the bird in an en
vironment where tem
perature vanes only bet
ween 56°F. and 80*F. and
fresh air is available con
stantly.
The pullet must be cared
for every day and led a
Swine producers oppose labeling regs
representatives say they are
concerned, too, over the
increased food costs to
consumers resulting from
the present proposed
labeling regulations and
legislation.
In the area of dietary
guidelines, recently released
jointly by USDA and HEW,
the NPPC expressed con
tinued concern on aspects of
the guidelines.
“The most recent
guidelines take a more
realistic and positive ap
proach to U.S. eating habits
because they recommend a
balanced diet and eating in
moderation instead of
singling out a specific food or
food component as
dangerous,” says Chris
Herbert, NPPC Director,
Nutrition Services,
“However,” she says, “the
guidelines continue to im
plicate animal products in
heart disease without
scientific evidence in
agreement on this issue.
NPPC feels each person
must assess individual
health needs and act ac
cordingly.”
Pork producers, con-
nutritionally adequate diet
or laying ration.
If the lady of the house
does everything right and
each pullet lays 280 salable
eggs during the year and if
she gathers, processes and
markets all eggs at her
kitchen door for a dollar a
dozen she may have $l,OOO at
the end of the year to spend
as net return to labor and
management.
To learn how all of this is
done, send a check made
payable to: The Penn
sylvania State University in
the amount of $6.50 (plus 25
cents postage). Ask for
Correspondence Course No.
92, POULTRY KEEPING;
address your request to: Box
5000, University Park, PA
16802.
cerneu over possibility of
entry of African Swine Fever
into the U.S. and spread of
the disease by garbage
feeding of hogs, have called
on members of Congress for
support of legislation
prohibiting garbage feeding
of hogs except when done
under a strict con
trol/inspection system.
A four-member NPPC
study team has recently
returned from a three
country tour to Puerto Rico,
the Dominican Republic,
and Spain. They told
producers that their ob
servations show spread of
ASF linked to meat from
infected or earner pigs and
that meat scraps in garbage
fed to swine is a vehicle by
which ASF gams entry into
countries previously free of
the disease.
“This situation em
phasizes the extreme im
portance of strict controls on
garbage feeding programs,”
says Dr. C. Donald Van
Houwehng, NPPC’s director
of government affairs, and a
member of the study group.
Van Houweling noted that
his group was impressed
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with efforts underway in
Puerto Rico to prevent in
troduction of the disease
from the Dominican
Republic, and with
Dominican Republic moves
to eliminate ASF there.
“Unfortunately,” Van
Houwehng continues, “there
is little evidence of such
effort in Haiti, and presence
of ASF in Haiti continues to
be a threat to both Puerto
Rico and the Dominican
Republic as well as the U.S.
as a result. Spam is ap
parently content to live with
ASF, a disease prevalent
there for 20years.”
NPPC is presently sup
porting ASF legislation
drafted by Illinois
Congressmen Madigan and
Findley and will be working
with the USDA, AID and
other agencies to support
programs designed to
eradicate ASF where it
exists and to strengthen
efforts to prevent spread of
the disease.
Washington seminar
participants also gave
support to continued moves
calling for positive action on
an NPPC-Amencan
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