The Brussels Post, 1975-06-11, Page 9(By Nancy Andrews)
"One of the things the
nsumer Association of Canada
lacking is a comprehensive food
licy," Ruth Jackson, president
the CAC said.
Mrs. Jackson was speaking to
e Huron County Federation of
griculture in Clinton Thursday
ght and said "I realize you
ye regarded CAC as a sworn
emy, but I feel it has been
own out of context."
The meeting was far from
stile, but could best" be
scribed as a sparring match,
th both sides taking a few
ngs.
Mrs. Jackson, who comes from
tchener, told the more than 60
FA members that a compre-
siye food policy should be
ncerned with land use, who
ould be allowed to gr ow food,
d retailing and food banking.
"We feel the government
sn't thought it out as it should
y Huron Board
be," she said.
Mrs. J ackson took a rather
safe position by attacking a range
of activities and offering a
spectruM of often conflicting
posSibilities.
She said Nutrition Canada is
the most comprehensive policy
perhaps in any country ever. The
direction that should have come
from NC has been lacking, she
said.-
"We need someone to point the
way, and I think it should be the
federal government," she
said. We know a lot of our
children are deficient in calcium,
and it has to be decided if we are
going to enrich soft drinks or
other foods.
Mrs. Jackson, who is also the
CAC member • on the Farm
Products Marketing Board, said
farmers should be licensed to
prevent city dwellers from
speculation in the industry.
Speculation
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onsumer pres. spars with H FofA
he recent issue of providing
transportation to Huron
nty school students residing
re than one mile from schools
three towns was reopened at
day's meeting of the Huron
001 Board.
move at the April meeting by
erith trustee Cayley Hill to
vide busing for elementary
dents in Goderich outside the
mile limit was defeated,
ill's original attempt came
r a delegation of Goderich
nts attended the February
ding showing concern over
safety of their children when
had to walk long distances to ses,
her tonsiderable discussion
ndaYBill agreed to Withdraw
ion to operate buses on a trial
is from mid-November to
He agreed to have the
rd's administration determine
here the need is."
Other Goderich trustee on the
d Mts. Dorothy Wallace
oses the busing proposal. She
the boatd, "All of the
Oita it question are iri,gradeS
She- said the amount of
speculation by fly-by-night
farmer should be controlled. She
said when beef prices were high,
many people st arted to raise beef
and that resulted in oversupply
and decrease in its price.
That, of course, brought the
response who is a serious farmer?
Mrs. Jackson said she doesn't
have a definition for a farmer.
"On the other hand, she said, I
don't like controls because they
are artificial and arbitrary," she
said.
Mrs. Jackson said: "I'm aware
of the different costs of
production." She said she didn't
feel the consumer should pay the
difference and later explained
land use policy should encourage
farming on the best agriculture
land, and halt farming on less
productive land and put the land
to other use.
She said people have to decide
whether the farming industry is
said.
Hill agreed with other trustees
that the need is "basically for
small children'', He added, "I
originally had a number of
concerned people talking to me
but since the matter was rejected
two months ago 'I have not heard
from any of them."
going to be that fully controlled or
revert to the free enterprise
system. "Have we gone too far
toward a controlled industry to
turn back?" she asied.
She said the farm income
stabilization plan • has to be a
national scheme if we are to be
one country, for those items now
being handled by provincial
marketing boards have a
disruptive effect.
' Mrs. ackson said the farm
products marketing board "at
times seems so busy with the
housekeeping, it doesn't have the
time to stand back and take a
wider view."
Less responsibility
She said some marketing
boards are behaving less
responsibility than others and
that maybe we should name them
and not criticize them all."
One statement made by an
OFA member brought her up
short. He said "I know you spent
one week working on a farm . . . "
She pushed the hair
back from her face and said "One
day really, I can't lie, I didn't
even work, I just looked."
One OFA member asked why
was a CAC member on the farm
products marketing board when
no such member was on the
automobile association..
She said under law' farm
organizations are exempt from
charges of collusion and are given
monopoly power, therefore, the
public interests are at stake.
One farmer said he has heard
someone say that due to the rise •
in food, a person had to cut back
.on necessities.
Mrs. Jackson said she has long
said, that one of the main
problems with the price of food, is
the price of housing. If people
could spend less on housing,
more could be spent on food.
She said the food marketing
board, acting for the provincial
government is completely
dominated by the government
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seven and eight and should be
able-to walk to school,"
"As a taxpayer I would object,
to the expenses of paying for
buses out of one pocket and
helping the government pay for
participation ads from the other
pocket. I can see a real' can of
worms being opened here," she
In town bus route defeated
THE BRUSSELS POSTy •JUNE 11, 1975