The Rural Voice, 1990-07, Page 7FEEDBACK
Notes from Nova Scotia:
I wish to say how much Jim Fitzger-
ald's column impressed my wife and I, and
how we wish average people today would
practise those frugal ways and methods of
waste not, want not, using things for
another purpose rather than throwing them
away.
I was speaking with our "almost"
neighbours who print the Rural Delivery
magazine this morning, informing them of
your magazine (they said they received it).
I said what I would like to see is your
magazine sold here and Rural Delivery
from Liverpool, Nova Scotia sold in your
area so that we would understand each
other's problems. Better still, both should
be sold in Toronto and Ottawa to catch the
large populations who might then under-
stand farmers' problems and be more
willing to pay a few extra dollars for food.
If people look at the average age of
most farmers today, and then add five
years and think what their parents are
expecting to do at that age, they will then
think, "by golly who is going to grow our
food?"
I think we should also do all we can to
get TV stations to get the facts across to
the city people before it's too late.
I know Russia used to feed Britain
when I was very young, and once they get
back to normal they could do so again.
But that will take years, so farming is safe
here yet, and will be if we produce
naturally grown produce.
Keep up the good work.0
John A. Green
Moose Harbour, Nova Scotia
The facts about quota:
After reading Adrian Vos's April
column entitled FYI: Fact not Fiction, I
was left with a big question on my mind.
In the column he attacks health freaks and
animal rights activists for using misinfor-
mation to present a false and misleading
perception of abuse in farm practices in
order to develop a sense of fear and com-
passion in the minds of urban people.
I found his theme quite interesting
because it was only a few months previous
that Adrian Vos was accused by myself
and other readers of doing the same thing.
He used false and misleading information
to try to sway people's opinion against
supply management.
In his May column, he tries to
undermine supply management once
again by using misinformation and false
assumptions. He blames supply -managed
commodity boards for facilitating the
evolution of production control from the
family farm to the corporate farm by
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