TOO MUCH MEAT, EGGS, BUTTER

‘By H. K. WARREN Eugene Whelan, Canada’s minister of agriculture, is still carrying on his campaign for higher consumer prices on the pretext of the world food crisis and to assure producers a better price e for his products. Whelan is trying to make the primary producer the goat in the eyes of the public for rising prices.

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nace Cordoni i discharge of waste heat into the reactors is stored under water in tes: Be ica ie shee See possible accidental. open tanks at the reactor site, and tr. Perlo, published in explosion of the planty and the requires constant oe 1974 edition of the disposal of highly radioactive because of decaying activity. une, where he sets out waste. eee According to the Canadian ee € US of the necessity and The operation of the cooling Association one plant will fil a fnuclear power plants, and systems for these plants are ‘storage tank the size of 24? x 25’ x wing so attempts to subject to breakdown. Mr. Perlo 65’ within 40 years. The projections those in opposition to states that ‘‘private companies are for over 1,000 nuclear plants in ee might not maintain adequate north America by the year 2000. - throughout around the clock monitoring In the United States waste ae Be rromoting the sys ee a canteen pire paige on of ces of accident. which cluding solar aaehe. eae nuclear plant must as evidenced by the frequent and geothermal power. discharge waste heat into the leakages. Storage eres me * Means of power environment. In Canadian plants Washington State alone have ha ion do have adverse effects the heat is given off directly into some 20 reported leakages. These “nVironment and it is lakes and rivers. Studies are still storage tanks are storing suns of Maga - ,t0 minimize this being conducted to determine the the most dangerous an oe ts 8 ang I believe. more im- effects of this form of pollution. lasting substances on earth, an lef © carefully consider the Dr. Gordon Shrum, Director of are only a hea age: expediaa) ve i ssociation, because corrosion

Bee Tr saree of oe pecan yr 48 small in. tanks away far sooner than the 6 to ive ada €nvironmental groups _ bulk and easy to transport. This 10 centuries (minimum) that the ey: opposed the permits the building of pss Monee: alien Se ee ae opulation and in- is i ote

“i ee ase Pak ae dlectrivity is needed, private insurance companies in the iy ORs in the U.S. which _ instead of building them at the fuel U.S. will not insure an individual’s PPPose the ‘use of such source and having to transmit the health. or _ property ageinst ey include Ralph Nader, _ electricity at great cost to distant radiation or insure. ee ; * Of the Earth, Sierra Club, markets.’’ These reactors are reactors for the full extent of their ) oncerned Scientists intended for location near urban. liability. pt the National En- areas, which constitutes athreatto 47 borlo wishes us to believe

e ny ited Protection Agency. human life. . that nuclear power plants operated ‘Ved oe “Se organizations are Mr. Perlo informs us that “even by a socialist government will be

: € political level,-as the worst accident conceivable — safe while those run by capitalists e a community arena, an explosion of the plant, would are somewhat dangerous. _ Protect the en- wreak serious damage over only. a However, the problems and Of th, nd improve the con- radius of about a third of a eae dangers previously mentioned are ain © Wh° live within it. and that if the cooling sys via] Teal to either society — regardless n Objections that those failed and radioactive ee of political ideology. 4 Cerned with the en- escaped it would kill ey ihe. Tnshis attempt to, discredit those ot Nuch Ve with regard to the within 10 to 20 miles. Is this Ie ae dupase micleanaaa eae ated ile ine reactors are: the possibility that, as se ot Perlo accuses them -of being ary fo, wUPtion of coolant contends, “rational people “unconcerned about the dangerous

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World food surpluses called ‘alarming’ but prices rise

We agree the primary producers need a better shake, because they are not responsible for higher prices and are as much a victim of

the big monopolies as the con-

sumers are.

Whelan recently tried to deny’

that eggs were being dumped in the U.S. When he was shown what should be considered irrefutable proof, he simply denied it by saying that this was not the in- formation he had. The U.S. departments are not much better. A recent press release shows that the U.S. Treasury has started an inquiry into ‘the dumping of Canadian: eggs. If they discover evidence that dumping may be prevalent, then the Tariff Com- mission would ‘‘investigate”’.

Both our own government and the U.S. government are sidestepping what every New Yorker knows: that Canadian eggs .can be bought in New York at 47 cents per dozen. Canadians are paying 99 cents for the same eggs. It is obvious that Whelan is at- tempting to be as evasive as his counterparts in the U.S. and trying to obscure what every New Yorker knows, that Canadian eggs are being dumped, and they are reaping the benefit.

Whelan also is trying to propagate the idea that the shortages and high prices are due to a world food crisis. Press ‘releases in farm papers show that the surpluses in the ECM is so frightening to the authorities that they are casting about for almost any means to relieve the problem. Holland recently sold 15,000 tons of butter to the USSR at cutrate prices rather than release it to their own domestic market at less than the then domestic price.

Last week, the EEC was thrown into a turmoil by a proposal by the Common Market’s agricultural minister M. Pierre Lardinois, when he made a proposal that the 130,000-ton beef surplus be reduced by issuing coupons to the “socially weaker’’ that would make them eligible to buy beef at half the market price. Not a bad idea! But, it illustrates the alarm throughout the Common Market countries with respect to the “alarming surpluses’’.

I refuse to believe that Whelan is ignorant of these conditions, yet he still persists in his call for higher prices to improve producer prices. He does not mention, anywhere, that excess profits by monopolistic profiteers are responsible for excessive consumer prices.,

Most of us credit the Weston interests with responsibility for excessive profiteering in consumer food prices in the North American market, but how come that all capitalist countries, including the European Common Market, are caught up in this inflationary price spiral? Nestle’s Food Products, for example, with headquarters in Switzerland, are credited with being the world’s largest monopoly in food processing, having plants in every quarter of the world, and exercise a world control on production, processing and merchandising of almost every known food product available to the consumer.

Are these monopolistic food processors too strong for our existing governments? Are our governments afraid of them? Are they in collusion with them?

It is up to the consumer public to face them down and ask some very pertinent questions of Whelan and his boss Prime Minister Trudeau.

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“Unfortunately, madame, we have nothing that would substitute for food and cost less.””

hardships and dangers afflicting the working class’’. This is outright arrogance! I have met _many people actively involved in en- vironmental matters and most show an, uncommon concern for people and their working and living _ conditions.

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