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8 THE RURAL VOICE
Adrian Vos
Of this and that
The defiant actions by farmer
Schmidt, who sells so-called "organic"
non -pasteurized milk from his farm, is
of no benefit to anyone, and a possible
danger to his trusting customers.
Some diseases
can be transmit-
ted from cows to
people through
milk. That is a
well known and
established fact
for more than a
century. It is for
that reason that
all modern gov-
ernments insist
that harmful bac-
teria in all milk
be killed through
pasteurization. It
is simply a meas-
ure to protect the public from people
like Schmidt who believe that their
cows are pure and always will be pure.
People like Schmidt, and he is not
alone, who intimate that our food is
not wholesome, play on the fact that
our society is increasingly becoming
hypochondriacal. Another aspect of
this food phobia is the continuous at-
tack on food additives. The processors
do not spend unnecessary money on
these additives just to aggravate their
customers. They do it so the food will
remain wholesome for longer periods.
It prevents the forming of molds and
proliferation of bacteria, thereby keep-
ing the food more fresh and palatable.
* * *
Do you want some extra income
during die coming tourist season?
Those of you who live in the counties
near Lake Huron can lay out a route to
historic and unusual places in their
county and offer to guide summer
visitors on tours to these places. This
can take the form of taking a van with
visitors or you can simply drive ahead
of their vehicle. Most counties have
maps of interesting places. In Huron
the Huron County Historical Society
has produced a wonderful map to
historical places. Why not contact the
tourist office in your county about
such a venture?
* * *
The Anglo provinces are whining
that the NAFTA Environment Centre
will be located in Montreal instead of
in one of the WASP provinces. Now
the Quebec haters will have new
ammunition too. But I think the
government did the correct thing. The
amount of $30 million, seen in the
context that the Rae government put us
in the hole to the tune of $9,000
million, is negligible.
If it helps to keep our country
together I can only say more power to
them. Much of the furore was caused
by the unwise remarks of the Honour-
able Sheila Copps (of whom I am no
fan), that Montreal was chosen to
punish Rae.
In the last four or more years we
heard many demands that MPs must
account for their votes in parliament or
the electors in their riding should be
able to cancel their election. The latest
fuel added to that fire was caused
when Jag Badhuria, MP was assailed
for making hollow threats against the
school board members for whom he
was a school principal and for exagge-
rating his educational accomplish-
ments. That at the same time at least
two other MPs were charged with
criminal acts was apparently disre-
garded. Badhuria was able to show
that he had not lied about his education
but that his detractors showed their
ignorance by misinterpreting the initial
of his law studies from Int(ermediate)
to Int(emational).
I suspect that the fact that Badhuria
has more melanin in his skin than the
other accused MPs has something to
do with this.
All that aside, we elect an MP or
MPP because we expect him/her to
make the correct judgement and vote
accordingly. The person at the source
knows better than the mob at home
what is involved in the issues. If we
disagree with them we have only
ourselves to blame for not asking at
candidate meetings before an election,
what they stand for. Anything else
only leads to anarchy.0
Adrian Vos, from Huron County has
contributed to The Rural Voice since
its inception in 1975. He is a writer
and raises exotic birds on the farm
where he raised pigs for many years.