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Show tions." The FOOD Nutrition Experts Warn Irrisponsible Misleading information being members of the medical compromoted to the general public munity are being used to instill is undermining current and apprehension in the public's future efforts by the American mind concerning the nutritional food industry to provide an quality and safety of the food adequate supply of wholesome, supply." nutritious and safe foods. He cites the promotion of This warming has come from "FOOD DAY as a prime a number of eminent nutrition example. FOOD DAY - coexperts who have expressed ordinated by the Center for concern that irresponsible and Science in the Public Interest, a unscientific attacks on modern Washington, D.C. based activist agricultural and food processing group headed by Michael methods could jeopardize the Jacobsen, a bacteriologist - is food supply in the United States urging health activists to orand throughout the world. and other ganize local teach-in- s In a special report, Dr. activities on April 17th William J. Darby, President of "create public awareness of The Nutrition Foundation says: health problems. "Misleading and erroneous Among the basic premises of information and propaganda the organiers and supporters of much purely political in nature FOUl) DAY are charges that: - are "Most Americans are eating being widely disseminated under the guise of nutrition themselves to illness and education. Consumer groups, death" and that these eating academic institutions and habits contribute indirectly to organizations, joined by the plight of small number of scientists and millions in na -- -- heart-rendin- g famine-stricke- EVER WANT n TO DO THIS TO YOUR MOWER? YOU WONT BE FRUSTRATED WITH A LIACOBSEN TURBO-VEN- T 21 Power-Propelle- d ROTARY with PACE COMMAND 1 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 You want mowing performance for your money when you buy a power mower. You want a mower that mows all of the cutting width you pay for. You want a power-prpetted model to eliminate pushing. You get all of these with 1 V Jacobsen All JKObMtt rotiriM bar label and maat aicaad the 871 safety spec (fleet torts published by the American National OPEI Standards Institute. IJestcnsIiovs 39 s. Main Phone i Baa to FOOD DAY. Dr. George Briggs, a 528-33- 95 and Dr. Latham has stated that J"half the population of the world would starve to death in J the next five years if artificial fertilizers were not used; and that malaria and other insect-- ' borne diseases might double child mortality rates in the poor (countries of the world if ll i insecticides like DDT were not .available." Dr. Fergus M. Clydsdale of the University of Massachusetts, says: In order to supply 'wholesome, food in urban- high-qualit- y rtoday's ized world, nearly all foods must be processed and preserved . . . Without processing, preserva anxiety-producin- g "WKERE THE BUYER MEETS THE SELLER" j s SMflca raiD( n nutrition educator from the University of California, also listed as a member of the FOOD Advisory Board, has offer the consumer convenient or t ths or dangers of starvation disease. g DAY t featuring Paca Command variable speed drive that' lets you choose the best walking s. eed for you and the best cutting speed for the grass! chael C. Latham of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, himself a member of the FOOD DAY Advisory Board, considers that the dangers of fertilizers and certain insecticides are minor compared to the pro- written: "Our phenomenal agricultural production would be impossible without pesticides. Using these, plus preservation techniques and additives, the food industry has been able to Turbo-Ven- I 1 a DAY moters also condemn chemical" farming methods; "massive doses of chemical fertilizers; pesticides; and herbicides. This deliberate creation of unwarranted anxiety through dissemination of misinformation concerning our vital basic foods constitutes a glaring breach of public trust and responsibility. The basic premises put forth by the promoters of FOOD DAY have been rejected by eminent scientists and spokesmen representing a large majority of informed medical and scientific to Dr. opinion, according Darby. He quotes the President-Elec- t of the Society for Nutrition Education, Dr. Philip L. White, Secretary of the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association: "The statements of certain institutes of consumer concern add to public confusion, the Center for Science in the Public Interest being a classic example. Almost nothing from that Center is made of whole cloth." Dr. Jean Maver, the noted Harvard nutritionist, charac- terized the material on agriculture being disseminated for FOOD DAY as having nothing to do with feeding the world and Dr. cheaper costs of food. Maver, originally a member of the FOOD DAY Advisory Board, has told the organizers he wishes to dissociate himself completely front any activity t lies were organizing in relation April 24, 1975 of world." the tion and the use of food breads Another example of unsupadditives, the situation in the misworld would be much more ported Dr. out information by pointed severe than it already is." Dr. Frederick J. Stare of Darby, is the claim that current Harvard University, in his infant feeding practices in the United States are not desirable nationally syndicated column are industry and Food for Health, has called FOOD DAY another of the The facts are, he says, that carefully formulated and dehair brained' ideas of the Center for Science in the Public veloped infant foods are manuInterest." Responding to the factured in response to the attack on the nutritive value of neeJs of children as planned by enriched white bread. Dr. Stare physicians. Dr. Darby concludes his says: "The Center for Science in the Public Interest is apparently special report by urging indivinot aware that a report duals and. groups to obtain published in the Journal of the guidance from responsible scienAmerican Dietetic Association tific and professional nutrition in 1961 showed enriched white organizations. In this way, they bread to be second from the to may avoid the harmful and bread to be second from the top embarrassing consequences of of a group of 44 breads from 14 misinforming the public. countries studied for their nutritional qualities. Enriched It takes less time to do a white bread of the United States thing right than to explain why is excellent in nutritional value you did it wrong. and compares favorably with the exotic, foods and the consumer has eagerly accepted them. Not many in the United States would trade todays free choices of 8.000 attractive items on the grocery shelf for the specter of rancid, stale, jnoldy. products. 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