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Penn’s
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
READING Penn’s Agri-
Women debated farm issues,
elected a new state secretary and
heard that Pennsylvania foodstuffs
are abundant and nutritious,
during their annual state con
vention, held Tuesday at the
Reading Motor Inn.
Opening the session was a report
on the Cornucopia project, spon
sored by organic fanning en
thusiast Robert Rodale. Two of
PAW’s members, Judy Cihylik,
Treichlers, and Jean Beck,
Hamburg, took part in a summer
conference at Lehigh University on
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Agri-Women hear Cornucopia issues
the Cornucopia study. Results of
that study are highly critical of
current fanning techniques and
food distribution methods.
According to Mrs. Cihylik,
Rodale outlined several of' the
criticisms of the study, pinpointing
grain feeding to cattle as wasteful,
and suggesting that the use of farm
chemicals for pest, weed and
fungus control are causing
respiratory problems to farmers.
Cornucopia’s bottom line
recommendation is a conversion to
total organic fanning.
Another conference speaker, she
said, told the conferees that all
farming should be done only by
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reverting back to the use of horses,
that farmers only should crop the
land they can handle using-horses,
and that only the Amish are good
stewards of the soil.
Speaking to the conference from
another angle was soil con
servationist Ned Samson. He
agreed that certain cropping
practices'need fine tuning, but told
the Cornucopia conferees that total
organic farming was just not
feasible. Samson claimed, instead,
that agriculture’s real concerns
are the erosion, compaction and
low organic matter in many soils,
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Jean Beck, who also monitored a
day of the Cornucopia conference,
noted that speakers she had heard
encouraged more tailgate
markets, backyard gardens, use of
local produce, as well as expanded
consumer education, buying clubs
and networks of communications.
The ultimate goal of these
recommendations >is to make
farming economically sustaining.
“And that,” says Beck, “is what
farmers have been doing for the
last hundred years. ’ ’
Featured luncheon speaker was
--Bucks County retired home
economist Frances Vannoy, who
now assists with nutrition
programs for senior citizens.
“Eat a balanced diet,” was her
■evading theme, with nutrient
recommendations based on the
guidelines of USDA, and widely
used in current Dairy Council
materials.
Glaiming that, because food is'an
emotional issue and untrue
statements are often made as fact,
Mrs. Vannoy urged PAW members
to question food claims they read
or hear.
She praised the quality of food
available in the Keystone state,
with its abundance and variety,
but noted that she feels most
families don’t take advantage of
highly nutritious, but less common
vegetables, such as acorn squash
and turnips.
Warning that most people, if
they eat a balanced diet, do not
need vitamin supplements, the
home economist suggested that too
many individuals prescribe
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-However, Mns. Vannoy noted that
a strictly vegetarian diet can be
dangerous, since protein intake
may be insufficient.
“Timing is crucial in the
vegetarian diet. The right foods
must be in the digestive tract at the
right time in the right com
bination,” she explained, adding
that, if those exact conditions do
not exist, the vitally-needed
proteins will be absent. _ -
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Current dietary guidelines
suggest the consumption of less
session, Centre County dairy
farmer Renee Bates was elected to
the office of secretary. Com
mittees were fanned to study and
write policy on issues including
animal welfare, the dairy support
program and rural crime.
Agri-Women are also gearing up
to celebrate the March 1982 annual
nationwide Ag Day by honoring,
“Ag Day babies” in several citid£
around the Commonwealth. An Ag
Day baby program, originated this
past year by the York Agri-Women
chapter, has been picked up and
promoted in Ag Day materials
distributed across the country.
PAW president Gail McPherson,
New Park, will head a delegation
of members participating in the
November 10-13 convention of
American Agri-Women at Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
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contact membership chairman
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