BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent HERSHEY - Who’s responsible for the con troversial socio-economic pohtical attitudes toward food production that have emerged to farmers’ oc casional dismay in the past decade’ That was the question addressed by Margaret Roger, food expert and director of the Food Ad visory Board m her “Critical Food Issues” address to Monday’s AAW convention meeting at the Hershey Convention Center. Attacking the notions that current food production methods, using modern technology, are unhealthy and unnatural, she said that Americans are among the “longest lived, best fed societies civilization has ever known.” “The history of ‘natural’ foods is documented in the Bible,”, claims Rogers. “It includes starvation, pestilence and disease, e the new auger-type wood Dork-Duster...the fastest, most crvliftQrc efficient, most economical SpilTT6rS way. to split logs. Ir's o whole new concept in wood splitting splitting from the side with on ouger instead of from the end with a wedge Bark-Duster bores through the toughest logs log after log in lust seconds And it's about half the price of cumbersome hydraulic wood splitters Choose from three models PIO operated by tractor power rake-off, 5-Horse with 5 hp Dnggs and Stratton engine, and the unique new Auto-Drive powered by the drive wheel of o truck or cor without removing the wheel. Don't spend hours and hours doing back-breaking work Discover the ease and speed of Dork-Duster ..America's No 1 ouger 4 type wood splitters FARMERSVIUi EQUIPMENT RD4, EPHRATA, PA Food expert addresses AAW members conditions we see today in places like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe And who’s feeding these people’ The USA, using our food science and technology.” Rogers calls the critics of modern ag production techniques “the new class, the upper middle class in tellectuals who get most of their information from books with little practical ex perience and get their power through persuasiveness ” Far too many of them, she warned, are on the staffs of liberal congressional offices and holding positions in offices of agencies like Health, Education and Welfare. “They’re absolutely paranoid about chemicals and bring up cancer as an excuse for questioning everything,” she insists, suggesting instead that cancer is a function of old age rather than the result of modern food production methods. Only through the affluence INC. ipt Jg Jgc. _ visory Board, a group of scientists seeking reason over emotion in food issues. of society, which does not have to spend 70 percent of its time hunting food like man once had to, says Rogers does this “new class” have the tune and money to worry about details of food production 717-354-4271 A new breed of cattle maybe? No, just Mrs. Kenneth Stewart, Harr isburg, entertaining the children of the Hershey Medical Center. This was all part of a puppet show presented by American Agri-Women. MffifiEpUcE RUSTED, BROKEN FREE STALLS Replacement free stalls from Agway are the answer... they are safer for cows and more efficient for dairymen. SUSPENDED FREE STALL No. 86 • replace stalls with no concrete work • no curblme posts to interfere with bedding or alley scrapers* high strength IV OD steel tubing—not pipe • accessory top rail required (agww) AVAILABLE AT YOUR LOCAL AGWAY STORE OR REPRESENTATIVE Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 15,1980—A33 American Agri-Women convention depicting the history of the American farm wife. This and other displays were on exhibit for the women Monday and Tuesday. WAY SUSPENDED FREE STALL SUPER 96 • 130% stronger than No 86 • high-strength 2%" OD steel tubing • installs with no concrete work required • accessory top rail required No. 76 H -4 FREEDOM ■ STALL ■ • floating lower rail for greater animal safety * • posts are located 15" in . from curb for greater cow comfort • 3VT OD steel H| tubing • planks to be purchased locally - w *fih
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