The Rural Voice, 1988-10, Page 28Bodmin boars
have been selected
and bred for your
commercial use
and conditions.
SEEDSTOCK
YORK, LANDRACE,
HAMP. & DUROC.
Health Classification
Excellent***
Bodmin has an
on-going inventory
of 40-80
performance tested
purebred boars
As profit margins become smaller, the
benefits of Bodmin's Sound Breeding,
Selection, and Health program
become more important to you.
Call:
Phil Smith 519-764-2898
Gerry Campschroer 519-523-4284
Boar Store (Days) 519-887-9206
Bring Your Soyabeans to: The Masters
of Roasted Soyabeans
Nobody roasts soyabeans with the
expertise that we have developed.
eans
We will buy or store your soyabeans
and corn and we can return them as
processed feed — as you need them.
For high Quality Livestock Feeds &
Service call:
BOYDS FEED MILL
Kurtzville, Ontario
519-291-2220 519-335-3535
26 THE RURAL VOICE
technology as intended. An irradia-
tion plant needs many skilled technic-
ians and workers, constant supplies of
electricity and water, and an efficient
transportation system. It needs in-
spectors to monitor the safe operation
of the plant. The food that is irradia-
ted must be handled carefully to
preserve the sterile environment in
which it is packaged. Many of the
target nations will be hard-pressed to
supply these requirements. The very
fact that they need irradiation to
preserve food means that they have
not been able to organize conventional
methods of food preservation, casting
doubt on their abilities to operate an
irradiation plant efficiently or safely.
The one area where food irradia-
tion appears to be a real need is in the
treatment of food imported into
Canada. We have forced exporting
nations to look at food irradiation as
an option by banning the fumigants
that they were using, but we have left
them a catch-22: the only treatment
we allow them that makes any sense is
food irradiation, but we won't buy
food treated that way. How this
situation will be overcome is not clear.
Will Canadians see irradiated food
on the grocery shelf? Proposed trials
of irradiated products last year were
not carried out because of consumer
pressure, and Dr. L'Ecuyer says that
no further tests are in the works right
now. If such products are marketed,
he adds, they will be marked clearly
with a logo and descriptive wording,
so consumers will be able to decide
whether or not they want to purchase
them; irradiated food won't be forced
down anybody's throat. And until
some of the controversy surrounding
the technology is worked out, it is
unlikely that irradiated food will make
its way to anyone's table.0
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