Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on big-time farming [Nov. 6] was a refreshing insight into a business that few people regard as such. The amazing bounty that agricultural scientists like Mr. Benedict are able to produce is a tremendous hope to starving people the world over, and the best way to counter our rising import costs...
...glad I still know small farmers; people who care for the land and don't feel the need to rip out lovely old shade trees. Mr. Benedict is no farmer; he's just another Big Businessman...
...social scientist. She was only eight when she was assigned to observe and record her younger sisters' speech patterns. Mead's university training-she studied at New York's Barnard College and Columbia University under such anthropology giants as Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict-only refined her talents...
WELL, you might ask, if small farms are actually more efficient than big ones, why are they being gobbled up by the likes of Pat Benedict, who in the past few years has aquired four farms? The article reports that "in three cases, he razed and burned the houses, uprooted graceful shade trees and returned all the land to crops." Time might call that progress, but the dispossessed farmers probably called it robbery...
...predicts that by 1985 corporations will control 75 per cent of our food supply in one of these two ways. And even the USDA admitted in a 1973 report that only cash grain and forage crops, and range livestock will be controlled by independent family farmers in 1985. Pat Benedict, a wheat farmer, is the exception, not the rule...