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The Rural Voice, 2002-02, Page 30DURRER' GENERAL CONTRACTING Experience, Reliability, Working for you! S Efficiency a u` MIIIIIIi mouII ����ltii[tiUl•lfiPr * Agricultural * Residential * Commercial * Repairs * Renovations KEN DURRER MILDMAY ALLAN DURRER PHONE: 519-367-5225 FAX: 519-367-5966 I've had it... with these slippery floors!!! Slippery Concrete Floors? Building a new barn? Contact us now. Special pricing for new barns! BENEFITS TO GROOVING • ENSURES FOOTING FOR WALKING, MOUNTING & MOVING AROUND • DECREASES NERVOUSNESS & INJURIES This is a piece of cake... BARNYARDS AROUND FEED BUNKS SPRINGTIME SPECIALS A lot of freestall barn floors have not been cut they've been stamped when poured. This lasts for only 3 or 4 years. To increase your heats and lessen your injuries contact: JJM CONCRETE GROOVING R.R. #1, ARTHUR,ONT. (519) 848-3184 1-800-837-0246 26 THE RURAL VOICE backwards because Canada chooses not to keep up with and stay competitive with U.S. ag policy, we are going to be in trouble. It's going to come from your neighbours, and its going to be real messy. Our senior levels of government need to get the message and they need to hear it loud and clear. We will not accept being pitted against each other. We will not accept second best. We will not accept half-hearted measures. We will not accept a Minister of Agriculture who cannot get our message across. We will not accept the destruction of our grains and oilseeds farmers and the continuing thinner and thinner slice of the consumer dollar. The mis-truths, lies and deceptions that I do not like: How much research behind current causes such as tighter environmental regulations or gun laws is actually faked by government officials, or others in power with a vested interest in the outcome? • That's a valid question in the light of three recent cases where critical research data was found fraudulent: • U.S. government wildlife officials planted lynx fur to prove the presence of an endangered species, which would justify a broad expansion of their Endangered Species Act jurisdiction. • Tulane University (U.S.A.) researcher Dr. Steven F. Arnold admitted fabricating data and "proving" that certain combined pesticides are highly potent in imitating human estrogen. The research "verified" fears of a speculative but horrifying book, Our Stolen Future, which former U.S. Vice -President Al Gore praised and wrote the forward in. EPA chief Carol Browner called it strong evidence for birth defects. EPA pesticide chief Lynn Goldman called the results very clean looking. It also accelerated a drastic series of EPA regulations in the U.S.A. that are still on the books and seemingly cannot be undone. • Emory University (U.S.A.) professor Michael Bellesiles' book, Arming America: the Origins of the National Gun Culture, apparently perpetrated what the New York Times calls "one of the worst academic