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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-06-19, Page 184i �r 10A”-GQDER H SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1975 consumer spars with F of A members` at recent CIinton meeting "One of the things the Con- sumer Association of Canada is lacking is a comprehensive food policy;"" Ruth Jackson, president of the CAC said. Mrs. Jackson was speaking to the Huron Cqunty Federation of Agriculture in . Clinton recently and said "I realize you have regarded, CAC as a sworn enemy, but I feel it has been blown out of context." The meeting was . far from hostile, but could- best be described as a sparring match, with both sides .taking a few swings, Mrs. Jackson, who conies froern .Kitchener; told the more than 60 OFA members. that. a comprehensive food policy should be concerned with land use, who should be allowed to grow food, food retailing and food banking. "We' feel the government hasn't thought it out as it should OFA member brought her up short. He said, "I know you spent one week working on a farm,.." She plashed the hair back from her 'face and said "One day reaNy, I can't lie, I'didn't even work, I just looked:'' One"OFA member asked why was a CAC member on the farm products marketing board when no such member was on the automobile association. She said under law, ' farm organizations are exempt from charges of collusion and are given monopoly power, therefore, the public interests are at stake. .One farmer said he has heard someone say 'that cjue to the rise in food, a person had, to cut back on necessities. Mrs, Jackson said she has long said, that one of the main problems with the price of food, is the price of housing. If people be," she said. , . could spend less on housing, Mrs.. Jackson took a rather more could be spent on food, safe position by attacking a . She said the food marketing range of activities and offering board, acting fon the provincial a..spectrum of often conflicting government- is completely possibilities, dominated by the government. She said Nutrition Canada .is The importance of having. a the most comprehensive policy CAC member on -the board is perhaps , in any country ever. . that the CAC can say. things The Direction that should have that the others can't and there come from NC has been is a separate consumer interest lacking, she said. - to protect. "We need someone to point The farmers agreed until the way, and l think it should be people establish their priorities the- federal government," • she .when they go -shopping-, they` said. "We know a lot of our . will continue to complain about children are deficient in , the cost of food. calcium,' and it has to be One farmer said people buy decided if we are going to pop' before milk. "They're enrich soft drinks- or other stupid as '-far as I'm con- cerned," he said:. Russel Kernighan said once when Marc Lalonde, Minister of Health, was questioned on the rise in milk prices last year, he said his family drinks powdered milk; "If the Minister of Health who earns more than $43,000 can't afford to feed his family fluid milk{, where am I? he said. foods; SPECULATION "' Mrs. Jackson, who is also the CAC member on the Farm Products Marketing Board, said farmers should be licensed to prevent city dwellers from speculation in the industry. She said the amount of speculation . by fly-by-night farmer should be controlled._' She said when beef prices were , high,{ many people started to raise beef and that resulted in oversupply and decrease in -its • price: That, of course; brought the question who is a serious far- mer. Mrs. Jackson said she doesn't have a definition for a farmer. "On the other hand," she said, "I don't like controls because they are artificial and arbitrary." Mrs. Jackson said: "I'm m aware of the different costs of production."' She said she didn't feel the consumer should .pay the dif- ference and later explained land use policy should en- courage farming on. the best agriculture land, . anfi - halt farming on less productive land' .andput the land to other use. She said people have to Mrs. Jackson said she felt it was a matter of . personal preference and that ;he was setting ,a good example'for low income people who resist purchasing powdered milk because fluid milk becomes a status symbol. Mrs. Jackson said if she could make any suggestion, "Don't come out too militant." A farmer -poke out saying, "We've been easy going for years'. Where has it got us?" ON STRIKE "Where would the country. be if we. went out on `strike?" another farmer said. Another farmer spoke out, ,A` `I' 11 tell you, it would be imned hungry." John Hazlitt, a director of the Ontario Bean Marketing Board said "normally .the farmer is, the scapegoat" , when prices decide whether the farming, rise but'last August a study industry is going to be that fully controlled or revert to the free enterprise system. "Have we gone too far toward 'a -controlled industry to turn back?" she asked. • She said the farm income stabilization pian has to be a national scheme, for those items now being handled by- provincial yprovincial marketing boards have a disruptive effect. Mrs. Jackson said the farm products marketing board "at time§ seems so busy „with the housekeeping, it doesn't have the time to stand back and take a wider' view„" LESS RESPONSIBILITY She said some marketing boar& are behaving less responsibility than - others and -that maybe we should name them and not criticize them all." One statement made by an s tNfP !r 1 •. osr -Funerals;- ^ 1 .Get Well- -Weddings -Anniversaries- • 524.7885, 61 CHURCH ST. 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"People voted baby food tins off the market and replaced then with glass jars that .are more ex - „pensive and can more easily be contaminnterf "' Early in the meeting, she said the CAC. "objected to 'the highhanded way .any other transportation facility raises its rates without letting the people know the reasons. ' Mrs. Jackson said also the people shouldn't - close their minds to helping produce food for the hungry peoples of the world. ' .When asked after the meeting, if the CAC would find its power diluted when it is striking out in so many directions, she said: "It's possible but we hope not." With over 100,000 members across Canada they hopefully should maintain enthusiasm, she said. ResidentiaFLighting Display Electric Heating "INDUSTRIAL—COMMERCIAL" RESIDENTIAL -WIRING CUSTOM TRENCHING GRAHAM ELECTRIC 62 CAMBRIA RD. 'N GODERICH. 524.-8670 r BUSINESS DIRECTORY a .0 Ronald L.' McDonald CHARTERED' ACCOUNTANT 39 St. David St., 524-6253 ' • Goderich. 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