HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-03-13, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1991.
Letters to the editor
Cream producer worries about future under proposal
THE EDITOR,
I would like to express my
concerns on the proposal of discon
tinuing the 50/50 split for cream
producers that the Canadian Dairy
Commission is considering in its
discussion paper “The Butter Issue
- Options For The Future’’.
No further increase in the butter
support price would result in
separating-cream producers as a
dairy enterprise. Cost of producing
cream will continue to increase and
we would no longer see an increase
in our gross returns under the
Canadian Dairy Commission’s new
recommendations.
Every cream producer should
New attitudes needed
toward violence
THE EDITOR,
Doug Trollope was right in his
letter Feb. 27/91 - “Women do
commit abuses and violence
against men”, but he ommitted to
explain:
1. Abused men tend to be an
almost insignificant minority
(Eisenberg & Micklow)
2. Men have higher rates of the
most dangerous and injurious
forms of violence (beating up and
using weapons).
3. Abuse by men does more
damage to their victims (it is more
likely that a woman will be serious
ly injured when beaten).
4. When violent acts are commit
ted by a man, they are repeated
more often than is the case for
women.
5. Men who batter are those
whose early life experiences have
not taught them to trust, they are
isolated and lack friends with
whom they can be open and share
their feelings and fears.
He is also right when he says we
must look at the overall picture. As
a social worker who works with
victims of violence, I agree that we
must challenge the social struc
tures that generate abusing be
Pom not to blame
THE EDITOR,
To respond to Leslie Cook’s
letter of Mar. 6: all studies of
rapists do say that they admit to
using pornography but under fur
ther analysis these same people
later admit to using porn as an
excuse because it is a popular
socially acceptable scapegoat and a
good defence for insanity to get
clemency for what they have done.
The Bible or organized religion
has also been cited foremostly
“what made them do it.” All
research being done in this area
has concluded that there is no
evidence to indicate porn has
triggered this behaviour alone; that
unemployment, poverty, social sta
tus, religion, etc., could equally set
it off. They also report that the
attitudes of men and women who
rape, molest and abuse are instilled
early in childhood from childhood
impressions or morals, values and
role stereotyping, usually done by
the age of five. Cartoons like the
Flintstones are a good example of
role stereotyping and quite clearly
porn is not involved here in setting
those attitudes.
All these studies are concluding
is that there is very strong and
growing evidence to indicate the
more sexually regressive society
gets, the more the violence and
abuse escalates and they tend to
lean in that direction.
To correlate any final conclusions
you have to look at all the aspects of
violence and abuse in society.
Rape, molesting, physical and
mental abuse, racism, drug and
alcohol abuse, etc., are basically
violent whether self inflicted or
acknowledge this as a threat to
their well being. I believe these
periodic increases are a must for us
to continue. Without them it would
mean another kick in the back side
of an industry that is already
bruised. I see cream producers as
being excellent land stewardists. A
paragraph taken from pg. 17 of the
report “An Assessment of the
Economic Viability of Cream-Pro
ducing Enterprises in Ontario”
done in September 1988 illustrates
the point. On average sample
farms responding to the question
naire have about 20 per cent of
their owned and rented land under
permanent pasture, woodlets, bush
and swamp. The approximately 80
haviour in men. We need to
address the power imbalance be
tween men and women. Women
need to obtain equality and men
must learn to share power and
economic resources. We need to
empower all human beings, both
male and female to gain control
over their own lives.
Public education is an essential
component in the prevention of
abuse. It should be given in our
schools, churches, clubs and the
media. People need to learn to deal
with conflict in new ways that does
not hurt others. Marriage prepara
tion courses are offered by many
religious denominations with excel
lent results (Bader et.al). We can
all learn to develop new attitudes
about the inappropriateness of
violence and abuse. Schools and
families can espouse non-violent
interpersonal relationships. They
can denounce corpal punishment.
Children can be taught non-violent
ways to deal with their problems.
Mr. Trollope is also right when
he says that these problems must
be solved at the root. Let us learn to
treat each other more humanely
and learn to walk in Christ’s steps.
BARB BARTON-McMILLAN
BRUSSELS.
done to someone else and are only
symptoms of far deeper social
problems.
Porn is not involved in the rape
and molesting that has occurred in
the orphanages, reform schools,
and native schools run by nuns and
priests over the years, most of
which hasn’t come to light yet.
Priests molest boys only due to
their availability and in most cases
the priests’ sexual mentality is
below that of their victims. The
authorities report that St. John’s,
and St. Joseph’s in Ontario are
going to make the events in
Newfoundland look like a picnic
and the native schools and orphan
ages are even worse. Pornography
is not involved in the sexual abuse,
drug and alcohol abuse, physical
and mental abuse, etc., on Native
reserves which has been created by
300 years of oppression and racism
yet the abuses are identical in
nature to that committed by Gary
Bishop and/or Thomas Shirow.
Black leaders in Africa say point
blank that their social problems are
a direct result of Western morals
and values put upon them. The
same is also true in the Middle East
where the West is shoving its
morals and values down their
throats and that war is long from
over.
Not only does our society affect
others elsewhere but it affects itself
internally as well. The violence is
escalating. The human species is
reacting in a way that any other
animal reacts when it is caged and
you try to alter its normal and
Continued on page 19
per cent of total owned and rented
land is classed as tillable is used for
a variety of feed and cash crops,
the prevalent ones being pasture,
mixed grains and hay/haylage/sil-
age for feed crops, and grain corn
for cash crops.
At a time when the government
is setting aside millions of dollars
for better land practices they seem
to want to shut down a sector of the
dairy industry that already prac-;
tices all sorts of crop rotations,
grass plowdown, etc.
As far as I am concerned we as
cream producers are a small but
very important part of Ontario’s
agriculture. For most of us cream is
not all we produce. A lot of us use
the by-product of cream (skim
milk) to feed calves or pigs so that
maybe you can see that we patron
ize many businesses in the area.
Another statement taken from the
report states that “The most
popular non-dairy livestock enter
prises or cream-shipping farms are
beef cattle and swine”.
3 Out of 10
Canadian
Students
Drop Out...
And We All
Pay The Price.
J Every year, 3 out of 1 O
Canadian students drop out
before finishing high school...
And they realize all too soon
that it isn't as easy as they
thought.
The fact is, over the next few
opportunities or freedom
they're looking for.
When 30% drop out...over
100,000 students a year...it
affects everyone — parents,
educators, employers,
Canadian society as a whole
years, the majority of new jobs Making sure that young
will require a high
school education as
a minimum.
Without it, young
people simply won't
have the choices, the
Let's do something about it.
1*1
____
Government
of Canada
Minister of State
for Youth
Gouvernement
du Canada
Mimstre d'Etat
a la Jeunesse
Cream shippers are not risky
farmers to do business with.
Another statement taken from the
report backs up my remarks,
“With 29 cents of total debt for
every one dollar’s worth of assets,
the “average” cream-shipping
farm can be viewed as extremely
solvent. Similarly, with only 40
cents of debt money committed for
each one dollar of owner-operator’s
own equity capital invested in the
farm business, cream-shipping
farms can be described as “low
ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE
The Blyth Lions Club is once again wishing to sponsor Youth ages
16 to 21 to participate in the Lions International Youth Exchange
Program. Every effort is made to establish a visit with the country of
first choice. However, placements are subject to host family
availability and are not made in areas experiencing political and
civil instabilities. Also Blyth Lions are looking for families who
would be interested in hosting a young person from another
country. For further information, please contact Lion Gord Jenkins
523-9372.
Dropping
out is no
way out.
leveraged” operations with little
credit risk to lending institutions.”
Ontario holds 50 per cent of the
national quota allotment. So, alone,
we may not stand tall but when our
other commodities are considered
we are as important as any of our
neighbouring farmers and that we
have to help thread the fabric of our
community.
CHARLES REGELE
SEC.-TREAS.
HURON COUNTY CREAM
COMMITTEE.
people stay in
school is important
for all of us...and
more important
today than ever
before.
Canada