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Dear editor:
In the August 9 issue of the
Lancaster Fanning there is
an interesting editorial
discussing the advisability of
a national “Right to Farm”
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law. Robert B. Delano,
president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation
approves such a law which
includes the right to own
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right to develop markets and
have free access to them, the
right to use technology etc.
The editorial rightly
questions this proposal on
the grounds that it will (like
most laws) raise all kinds of
questions but, in my opinion,
misses the point at issue.
We have forgotten our
heritage when we say we
need legislative to guarantee
the right to farm. All we
have to do is to go back to the
constitution which states
that our right to “Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of
happiness’ is an unalienable
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right which comes from God.
No one may take it away.
The pitfall of enacting
legislation guaranteeing that
right is this: these rights are
already guaranteed by the
constitution and our
government, whose officials
have already taken an oath
to uphold the constitution. If
the government grants any
rights, they can also take
them away.
If we acknowledge that the
government is acting
correctly in giving us the
right to farm, for example,
we have admitted that the
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government not God, is
author of these rights.
The right to own and
control property or to farm
is already a natural right
held by every citizen. We
should beware of passing
any laws which give that
right to the government, for
what the government gives
us, they can also take away.
I am convinced that too
few people read the con
stitution. When the
newscasters stated that
Roth re-elected director
of Animal Breeders Assn.
LANCASTER - Harry
Roth, operations manager
for Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative, Lancaster, was
re-elected to a three-year
term as director of the Na
tional Association of
Animals Breeders at their
annual meeting held m Dear
born, Michigan.
A member of the Atlantic
staff for 16 years, Roth is m
charge of all production, pro
cessing of semen and sire
selection.
Since 1970 Roth has been a
member of the NAAB Dairy
Sire Evaluation Genetic Im
provement Committee and is
currently active as a
member of the NAAB
Researcn Committee on
Genetic Abnormalities. He
serves as chairman of the
NAAB Ad Hoc Committee on
Embryo Transfer investiga
tions. He is a member of
drafting only men might be
termed unconstitutional, I
asked myself, on what
ground?” The constitution
does not mention women
(nor does it mention the
word democracy.) Read the
constitution and guard
agains surrendering any of
your basic or unalienable
rights to Washington!
Eternal Vigilance is the
price of liberty.
Mrs. Ruth Schriver
Westminster, MdL
Atlantic’s research commit
tee.
Active in dairying m Penn
sylvania, Roth was honored
in 1979 when the Penn State
Dairy Exposition was
dedicated to him. He is a
director of the Pennsylvania
All-American Dairy Show,
and chairman of the Penn-
sylvania Invitational
Judging Contest.
A Pennsylvania native,
Roth grew up on a dairy
farm and had 10 years ex-
perience m 4-H work. He’s a
1954 graduate of Penn State
University where he was a
member of the Inter
collegiate Dairy Judging
Team, president of the Dairy
Science Club, member of the
Ag Student Council, chair
man of the Dairy Exposition
and a member of Delta
Theta Sigma fraternity.
After serving a year and a
half as agricultural exten
sion agent in York County,
Roth jomed Western Penn
sylvania Artificial Breeding
Cooperative as fieldman un
til he became sire analyst
and manager in 1960. He re
mained manager until
Western joined with
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Artificial Breeding
Cooperative to form Atlan
tic. At the merger, he assum
ed the position of Breed Pro
grams Director.
Roth is vice-moderator of
Grace Brethren Church and
a member of the Deacon
Board. He and his wife Ruth
have three daughters.