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A NATIONAL FOOD POLICY: WHY WE NEED ONE
A NATIONAL FOOD POLICY: WHY WE NEED ONE
Pages 5-14
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A massive crop failure in the United States is highly unrealistic -- that is, on a total basis -- but we can have sharp drops in production in certain years. If we should have this happen now in the absence of food reserves, we will face serious conditions.
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We now have to think about commodities in international terms, and this applies also to transportation and other aspects of food production. At present there are only four food reserve countries in the world: the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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They wanted to get away from just eating grains and to add dairy, poultry, and animal products to their daily diets. Interestingly enough, even in the communistsocialist societies, public opinion has forced central governments to make decisions to feed people increasingly better rather than cut back consumption levels.
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Veteran astronauts on the ground shared their experience with those in space who were learning while in danger. The space program has taught us as much about the relationship between resource supply and people demand, or, to put it in the terminology of this discussion, between food and population, because we created, in reality, little worlds inside these space capsules.
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We must find new sources of energy to enable the developing countries to increase their food production. Our agricultural methods require great amounts of energy and are not always appropriate for the developing countries.
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We need to remember that in most countries of the world the major cost item for a family is food, not a night club, country club, or an automobile, not even a home, but food. It will be difficult to rebuild reserves in face of a growing population and sharply increased demand from developed and developing countries.
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The government ought to set aside a certain amount every year just as individuals set a certain amount away to buy bonds. The United States recently discovered that it was a little short of plutonium, but that did not stop the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense from wanting to upgrade nuclear weapons.
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When I was Vice-President, I saw the Pentagon people come in with those long lead time items and their long-term plans. The Highway Trust Fund and the Highway Administration have longterm plans and they know how to use the money.
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We can hardly expect parents in developing countries to accept Western notions of family planning when surviving sons represent the only available form of social security. We have to look at the population problem in developing countries as an economic development problem.
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This turns people off. That is why planning both domestically and internationally is so vital -- to place goals within a time-frame, to allocate resources, and to set achievable goals and benchmarks so that people know what has yet to be achieved.
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