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...solution could be a move to Bloom Township, Ohio, a small farming community (pop. 3,500), set in rolling corn country twelve miles outside Columbus...
...because the fiber supplies no calories and has scarcely any nutritional value. Now, if the scientists' findings are confirmed, the time has come to rely not on commercial chemical laxatives but on nature's own brands -root vegetables, unpolished rice and such other unprocessed cereals as wheat, corn, barley and oats-to put fiber back into the diet of modern...
Nearly 10% of the U.S. corn crop is treated with aldrin, a highly effective pesticide. Both the manufacturer, Shell Chemical, and the Department of Agriculture consider the substance essential to control insect damage in the Midwest corn belt. Recently, after a year of still-unfinished hearings, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it plans to order a halt in the production of aldrin and a related Shell pesticide, dieldrin. Reason: the chemicals present "extremely high cancer risk...
...applied, aldrin gradually breaks down into dieldrin, a durable chlorinated hydrocarbon; the pesticide is long-lasting and requires only one application per year. That makes it more popular with farmers than shorter-lived, less potent pesticides that must be used more often and only at specific stages of the corn plants' growth. Dieldrin's impressive durability, says the EPA, is the very quality that makes it an increasingly serious threat...
With its 1975 production of aldrin scheduled to begin on Sept. 1, Shell has been granted a hearing on the ban order and hopes for a quick final decision by the EPA. But at week's end, it seemed all but certain that next year corn growers will no longer have aldrin/dieldrin to kill their bugs...