Word: farm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (Rodnik, Riga, Nos. 3-6, 1989). The famous 1945 critique of totalitarianism sold out immediately...
...farm country, Hightower has become a hotly controversial figure because of his impassioned attacks on pesticides and corporate agriculture in general. Delegates of the Texas Farm Bureau, a privately supported business group, met in Waco last week for a special session in which they railed against Hightower. They were joined by an array of cattlemen, grain-elevator operators and pesticide makers, who charged that Hightower is pursuing political ambitions instead of looking after the state's farmers. But supporters of small-farm interests rallied just as staunchly to his defense. Said Joe Rankin, president of the Texas Farmers Union...
Both irrigation districts are firm on one point. The bid of $60 an acre-foot that Willey has presented on behalf of the Mono Lake litigants will cut no deals. One farmer states the proposition from Willey's point of view: "You get the price up, and if farm prices aren't so good, you're going to get other districts saying, 'Look what those fellows are doing over there.' " A price upwards of $125 might begin to stir their interest. Then they grimace and stare at their thumbs as if to say they honestly wished they could do better...
...last January the E.C. banned imports of meat treated with hormones. But adding antibiotics to feed may pose an even greater threat. For years the drugs have been losing their punch against bacterial infections in humans. One explanation: the bacteria that normally flourish in the guts of farm animals are developing immunity to the antibiotics. And these new strains of superbugs are being passed on to people in the meat they eat. Charges Bradley Miller, director of the Humane Farming Association: "The livestock industry is squandering our medical miracles." Though ranchers challenge such claims, the growing public outcry is persuading...
Once food leaves the farm for processing and distribution, it is handled by a myriad of machines and workers before it reaches consumers. And the opportunities for contamination are also myriad: inadequate refrigeration, careless packing, unsanitary conditions in plants...