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PM must get involved in GATT negotiations
OTTAWA - "The Beard of Di,
inn of the C1tMdien Sig UM -
kiting *racy is holding the alder -
al ilevetaasnt directly •a000u table
tor doe 'livelihoods of Chhnarla's
38,000 egg, poultry and dot ry p o-
dueen, and for protecting !the best
Interests o aellieMen amewaes,“
Ken "'yodel', Chimer of the Pa -
Indian
g 1Ma lsadag Ageacy
(COMA) anneentteed last lWay.
A atatementtt Rammed by the
Aleaoy's Heard of Dhows's clads
on 4h&lNinte irllitrliseer Ito 1lleooate
linaeatily htMepled in Me #MI Ise-
wood
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days, our Beard of plrselers aims
eptresedlts very ateelegnIalleenet
the anwees foelden '$y titrarh-
27th annua farm industrN shove
The latest in John Deere farm equipment was Inspected by about 1200 visitors to Huron Trac-
tor's 17th annual Farm Industry show held in Exeter Monday and Tuesday. Huron Tractor sales
rep. Wayne Lyon points out some of the features to Albert Van Dyken of Nabisco Ltd.
The animal rights extremists
must have been seething in fury af-
ter reading a couple of releases
from the Associated Press last
month.
These are the delightful people
who threaten to put rat poison in
chocolate bars, the guys and gals
who .destroy scientific laboratories
in universities and fire guns at.pro-
fessors they think may be using ro-
dents .for experiments which could
make life easier tor human beings.
They are the characters who feel
no animals should be used for any-
thing else but what God intended
them for. No chickens or ducks or
geese or turkeys, cattle or hogs for
eating. No, no. Let all those ani-
mals resort to what they were be-
fore mankind domesticated them.
They want all house . cats and
dogs returned to the wild.
In fact, most of them are vegetari-
ans and will not rest until the rest of
the people in the world are vegetar-
ians, loo.
I do appreciate their stance as
vegetarians but they are enemies of
almost all branches of agriculture
and ale making a nuisance of them -
sevles .
The articles that probably had
them fuming dealt with rhinoceros-
es and e.olphins.
The one article had a picture of a
de -boned rhino that park rangers
bad deliberately de -barred with a
chain saw. The article explained
that the black rhinos are close to ex-
tinction because poachers kill them
for their barns. Literally thousands
of :these magnificent beasts .have
been destroyed because some primi-
tive eines and Far East honchos be-
lieve .the horns are a powerful aph-
rodisiac.
The rangers in the Zimbabe Na-
tional Parks and Wildlife sanctuar-
ies removed the horns to make the
beasts usatless .to poachers. The
black rhino herds have been deci-
mated in the last 20 years when
65,000 of them roamed Africa. To-
day because so many have been
killed, only about 2000 are left.
Without horns, though, they are
of no value to poachers.
So, what say the extremists?
Should these great beasts be left
with their horns intact and become
extinct or should man be allowed to
help them? .On.the.horns.of a.dilem-
ma, so to speak.
The other story was even more
poignant. Apparently, swimming
with dolphins is marvellous therapy.
It can even cureautistic children. At
the Dolphin Research centre ion the
Florida Keys, an English boy, diag-
nosed as autistic and unable to
speak, swam with the .dolphins and
began. to. talk..
The dolphin therapy is about to be
tried for another youngster. Experts
say they do.not know how it .works
but this dolphin therapy helps peo-
ple who are austistic, depressed or
have other mental illnesses.
Nobody really knows why it
works, says Dr. Horace Dobbs of
Britain's International Dolphin
Watch. "1t is as if there is some kind
of communication takes place."
Swimming with dolphins has a pro-
found effect on the human psyche.
particularly people who are sensi-
tive. People with mental illness tend
to withdraw into themselves and the
dolphins appear to break through
that barrier.
Awright! Let's go swimming with
the dolphins but be careful. Those
animal rights extremists do not be-
lieve any animals should be held
captive. We must .get .there .before
they allow the dolphins to get loose
where they will be killed by orcas
anyway. But .the extremists don't
care about killer whales. They, too,
are doingtheir own thing.
If my child or grandchild could be .
helped by dolphins I would stand by
the pool with a machine gun to keep
these extremists at bay.
egement systems ane to as a result
the current GATT negedadegs,"
asys 7 sten. "We aro kat a crucial
vont in Mae mks, had it is impera-
tive that the twit-MMister now
become pereetatlly involved in bi-
lateral trade negedations with the
US arid the Bmopean Community.
laden trays there is a strong per-
aep $on to the media that the federal
government k*s weakened its posi-
tion en Article XI and that supply
aulatgement can be protected by
ether methods. It is Article XI that
enables a comitry to implement im-
ptirt commits on commodities which
are subject to domestic supply con-
' vols.
"-Terifll ett-ivodd -have a -dev-
astating effect on our industry and
on consumers, not to mention the al-
lied Industries that rely on egg pro-
duction for -business," says Tjaden.
"The -Board of Dh ectors has asked
to -meet -with Ministers Wilson and
ght 4o= -the negative
impact the government's tariff -mo-
tion figures would have on egg pro-
ducers, but this has .been to no
avail."
in addition, the Board of Direc-
tors' s calling on the Prime Minister
to meet with farm leaders of the five
supply management commodities int
February to discuss what the federal
government plans on tabling as its
final GATT position in Geneva the
fust week of March.
ABCA looking to untie
bureacracy in farm grants
By Adrian Harte
EXETER - The Ausable Bay-
field Conservation Authority is at-
tempting to cut through some pro-
vincial red tape in order to get
local farmers better access to fimds
to imprgve the environment.
The ABCA board of directors
agreed with a staff proposal to ask
the province to do away with -some
of its expensive restrictions. placed
on its CURB program [Clean Up
Rural Beaches). While those re-
strictions have yet to be lifted, staff
member Doug Hocking remains
hopeful the province will listen to
reason.
At present, the CURB program is
providing up to 75 percent grants
to help farmers construct cattle
crossings over or through creeks
.and drains, but is demanding even
hard surface bed -level crossings be
design and inspection by profes-
sional engineers.
As Hocking describes it, that can
quickly add 32-3,000 on top of
each and every project. He has
met with the CURB people to.ask
them to pre -approve stale Ministry
of the Environment designs which
already exist for such crossings,
and said he appeared to get a gen-
eral agreement the idea was sound.
"A lot of these municipal drains
are just engineered to death," Hock-
ing told the Times Advocate Mon-
day, saying that to ask for engi-
neers designs was "overkill".
The crossings are aimed at -reduc-
ing water pollution by reducing the
amount of damage and stirring up
of the creek by tattle tramping
through.
The ABCA is currently holding
back. other funding applications for
crossings until a verdict an the de
sign issue is received, likely by ear-
ly March. 1`
The ABCA is alio asking the
ministry to reconsider its insistence
on galvanized eavestroughing
around barns for which manure
contamination of rainwater is a
problem.
While the CURB program will
fund additions of eavestroughing, roughing, it
requires the use of galvanized steel,
which Hocking concedes is not
common in this area and many con-
tractors do not use it.
The ABCA is asking CURB to
extend its program to cover instal-
lation of plastic and aluminum
taveatrtoughs.
Granton 441 club meets
On Friday evening, the Granton•
4-H Club gathered at the home of
leader Deanna Beauon to com-
mence the project, Your Best Foot
Forward.
Members answered the roll call
by telling of a situation where they
felt uncomfortable because they
didn't know what to do. The Junior
leader Angela Mcilhargey conduct -
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