Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While scoring food producers-who will present their case to the committee this week-Nader was no less gentle with regulatory agencies. Acknowledging the FDA's manpower and budgetary problems, he criticized its failure to conduct its own research or release results. Charging that the Agriculture Department is more industry-than consumer-oriented, he said that its inspection practices were characterized by "widespread complicity, incompetence and demoralization among the inspector corps...
...cure the country's nutritional ailments, Nader prescribed a heightened sense of responsibility for the food industry and stepped-up Government inspection. The latter is likelier than the former. Congress has already responded to Nader's campaign against unsound automobiles by legislating strict safety requirements for new cars. It reacted to his testimony on the quality of meat products by passing the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967, and to his disclosures on poultry with the Wholesome Poultry Products Act of 1968. His past crusades on the whole have been well documented, though often sensationalized and overdramatized. Unless...
...solve the subcontinent's old festering problems; but at least he will hear the same good news from both nations. As a result of the "green revolution" of miracle rice strains developed with U.S. funds, both India and Pakistan are well on the way to solving chronic food problems...
...Gandhi had thrown her prestige behind Acting President V. V. Giri, but the Syndicate vetoed his nomination. Then Indira switched her support to Food and Agriculture Minister Jagjivan Ram. The Syndicate, however, forced through the approval of Sanjiva Reddy, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) and a loyal Syndicate member. Indira was furious and decided to strike back directly at Finance Minister Desai, who had opposed her plan to nationalize the banks...
...many rock fans, nothing beats a good weekend festival of sound. Out in the open, with a dozen or so singers and bands to groove with, the living is easy. "Everybody is smiling and offering you food and laughing," explains one hip ticket buyer. "It's a really groovy thing when it's going right-kind of like the way you'd like the world...