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Zurich Citizens News, 1974-09-19, Page 4PAGE 4 The crime of waste! ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1974 Bombings, fires and fatal motor accidents ---all have occupied their place in the news during the past two weeks. None of these stories was more shocking than the disclosure that the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency had to destroy millions of eggs which had rotted under their ownership. Such a gigantic waste of good food is beyond reason or excuse. The agency is a trans -provincial organization, establish- ed with government blessing after the completion for egg sales boiled up to a near -battle between Ontario and Queb- ec producers a couple of years ago. The CEMA purchases the surplus eggs which are not sold on the open market, the intention, of course, being to maintain a "fair" price level for the producers. As far as can be ascertained the agency simply ran out of properly equipped storage facilit- ies and the millions of eggs stored in other warehouses rot- ted. ot-ted. The federal commission charged with watch -dog duties for Canadian consumers has condemned the CEMA for its mis-management of an extremely valuable farm product and charges that its policies have maintained the price of eggs to Canadian consumers at an unnecessarily high level. Egg producers and farm organizations maintain that artific- ially maintained price levels are not designed to provide higher profits for producers, but rather to maintain prices high,.enough to keep producers in business. Most of us would consider these objectives as identical. We are not here to deny farmers a fair return for their investment and labor. Rather it is the sheer waste of val- uable food that riles us. Eggs can be dried or otherwise processed so that their food value can be preserved for shipment to almost any place on the face of the globe. With millions of people starving in Africa and India the heinous crime of allowing so much food to go to waste is unexcusable. It may be true that Canada has no existing program to move so much food abroad, but it not, it is high time that such a plan be put into action. Only last week a Strathroy firm was forced to kill 25, 000 turkey poults because sales of full-grown turkeys have slumped. Once more events have proved that Can- ada is capable of vastly increased food production. Only the vagaries of the marketplace prevent us from providing aid for the other four-fifths of a world which is dying for the need of what we so carelessly throw away or decide not to produce. The Washington County Historical Society (AR): "In 1854 William Thomas opened a beef market here, selling good steak at 3 cents and roasts at 2 1/2 cents and he made plenty of money; but now in 1882 our butchers complain that they cannot make any at 12 1/2 cents per pound." Jack Rice in the St. Louis Dispatch about a proposed one million hog operation (that didn't go through)" 1, 000, 000 hogs wouldn't take up more room than 1, 000, 000 people, and the hogs wouldn't come with cars and a television set blaring at full volume. It always is a pleasure to talk with a man who has proper respect for a hog." It is often thought that the large packers slaughter most of the pigs, but a report from USDA shows that, at least in the USA this is not so. During the 1920's the four largest US packers killed about forty per- cent of the hogs. During the sixties it declined to between 30 and 3550, In current years it declined more and is now between 31 and 3250. The report doesn't say however what they consider a big packer. There must surely be more than four in the United States. I wonder what the French Consumers Association has to say about the beef that was dumped in Le Havre harbour by irate French farmers. If it was anything like Plurntre and Brechin it must be a dilly. Talk about militant farmers, Europe has got them. Beside the dumping of imported Argen- tine beef, they stuck pigs on lamp posts, sprayed manure on government buildings, hijack- ed loads of livestock and block- ed roads and airfields with trucks and tractors. It worked though, for the European Com- mittee banned all imports of beef for three months, supplied the armed forces with beef and gave it to pensioners on fixed incomes at low low prices I hope that our dairy producers, whose prices are set by the government as in Europe, don't have to take such drastic steps to receive a fair price for their product. In Consumer Reports are some interesting facts about investors who put their money in the cattle business. If they lose money there, they recov- er it tax -wise as investment losses. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 is rq Member: e. Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association4001 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association .t�"' Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ International. Scene (by Raymond Cannot* just for a few minutes but all day every day. One can imag- ine the extra work the heart alone has to do to compensate for the excess weight. Back to the Swedes once more. Some of you may have seen the T .V , commercial put out by Participation, a Canadian organization trying to get people to become more fit. One ad shows a 60 year old Swede running with a Canad- ian half his age and the pitch made is that the Swede is the one in better shape. My own experiences lead me to believe WHAT SHAPE ARE YOU IN? I have been following the prep arations of the hockey players of the World Hockey Associat- ion as they prepare for their eight game series with the Russ- ians. I am not going to predict the outcome of this series; all I hope is that it produces some good hockey. What does interest me is the numerous times that I have heard about the good condition of the Russian players. If I rem- ember correctly, this was talked about a great deal the last ser- ies and, in fact, it is generally accepted that European players are in better shape than Canad- ians. If this is so, it is because so frequently in this country, physical fitness is a dirty word. I remember that when I was playing hockey in Switzerland, we had a game scheduled with a Swedish team that was tour- ing Europe. I had become acc- ustomed to hockey teams with at least three lines and two pair of defensemen and so you can imagine my surprise when the Swedes showed up with only nine players. They played the entire game with these nine and what 1 shallnever forget is that, at the end of the gone, they were skating more strongly than we were and in addition they beat us. The Swedes are perhaps the best conditioned people in Europe or at least one of the best but, in all honesty, any country wouldn't have to go much to beat Canada. I think it is safe to say that, for many Canadians, avoiding physical exercise, or at least enough to do you any good, seems to be a way of life. Even kids get into the act and spend far too much time watching T.V. when they could be out doing something physical. Occasiona 1 exercise is not good enough. Even the amount you get at school, if you are a student, needs to be supple- mented by outside pastimes. What the Swedes and other Europeans have discovered, as well as those Canadians who have taken the trouble to learn, is that constant proper physical exercise has short term as well as long term benefits. Not only do you feel better both physic- ally and mentally but your chances of living longer are that much greater. If you consider the body as a machine, it is a machine which was meant to work, not to sit around. Any machine that is idle for any length of time becomes rusty and its efficiency is reduced. Our body is the same way and one sure- fire way to up the chances of dying a premature death is to neglect physical fitness. I once had this pointed out to me in dramatic fashion. The coach of one of the softball teams I played for got us all together one time and told us about keeping in shape and trying to avoid getting over- weight. To show us what it was like to be even fifteen pounds overweight and told one of the fellows to start carrying them around until he got tired or was told to stop. The first fellow started out at a good clip but it wasn't too long before he started to shift them around and finally he came to the coach and told him that he was tired. We were then informed that being 15 pounds overweight means that your body has to carry this fifteen pounds not that this is not exaggerated one little bit. Since I would like to see you live as long as possible and I think you would too, take my advice and do some- thing to get in and keep in Shape. It may turn out to be the best investment of time you ever made. Most Home Insurance polic- ies will not pay for the cost of replacing an item, reminds . consumers° Association of Can- ada. Insurance companies calculate depreciation costs on the basis of average wear life and most household items depreciate rather quickly. 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