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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1975
Ag moratorium proposed
for developing nations
HOUSTON — An internationally which in turn leads to increasing Also speaking at the convention
known author and agricultural con- population. The lives saved today was Dr. Georg Borgstrom, profes-
sultant yesterday proposed a by additional food will be paid for by sor of nutrition and geography at
moratorium on agricultural re- lives lost in the foture.” Michigan State University. He too
search in all the developing nations Author of the book “Famine voiced concern over the world’s
where the population growth is 1975,” Paddock said that world population growth. “Were in an
higher than the world average. population has increased from one unprecedented situation. With
Dr. William Paddock of billion 125 years ago to well over 4 two-thirds of the world’s population
Washington, D.C., a consultant in billion at present. “Modern inadequately fed, how are we going
tropical agriculture, suggested the medicine gave the world death con- to take care of another one billion
moratorium at the annual meeting trol (by increasing life span) without people in the next 10 years?” he
of the American Phytopathological birth control. ” asked.
Society and the Society of He forecast a 90 percent popula- Borgstrom said that more effi-
Nematologists. tion increase in developing nations cient use must be made of the re-
Paddock’s proposal was spurred over the next 20 years. Paddock said sources that go into food produc-
by the continuing population explo- that the population of Mexico will tion. He said that too much fossil
sion throughout the world espe- reach the size of China in the next 70 fuel is tied up in food production,
cially in undeveloped countries. years if its population continues to “We re using far too much energy
“Most of the world’s population grow at the present rate. The survi- in food production throughout the
problems today are due to too many yal of many Mexicans depends on world, ” Borgstrom said. “For
people on the earth. There is not a immigration into the United States, example, one glass of milk requires
shortage of food, but a longage of he said. the use of one-half glass diesel fuel
people. “Food production and population and one pound of hamburger re-
“Population growth is cancer that growth are on a collision course that quires the use of three pounds of
will destroy us all,” Paddock said, can only be avoided by curbing the coal.
“We cannot control a cancer by population,” Paddock said. “In- “Our energy returns in food pro
feeding it. And this is what we are creasing food production through duction today continue to decline,
doing by increasing agricultural re- agricultural technology will only Yet, our usage of energy continues
search in the poor countries. This add to human suffering in the de- to mushroom and will double in the
allows for more food production veloping countries. ” next 14 years,” he said. "Our world
energy use is increasing more than
twice the rate of the world popula-
tion growth. The gap continues to
widen between the units of energy
^ ; consumed and the units of food pro-
« A «g_ ■ ^ A 1 te * n P r °duced.”
^#1# jlj £2| 1 £$& T2| I A third speaker, Dr. Daniel Jan-
^ zen of the University of Michigan,
The latest issue of ‘Conservation News’, a bulletin took a look at the tropical areas of
printed by the National Wildlife Federation, contains at f) 16 , , , ,
least one interesting item. food Production^ The t r0 p ics do
not mean more tood. Much ot the
T , , „ . . i i r • i i i ii l an d is already in production, and
In the bulletin was the sad tale of a sick baby whale. , ittle of the remainder is adaptable
According to an unconfirmed Associated Press report, the to f OCK j production. Much of the
whale, believed to be a variety of pygmy sperm whale, i an d i s so poor that production costs
had washed up on Miami Beach. The report states that would be astronomical,” Janzen
the whale was then set upon and stabbed to death by a said.
mo b. “Furthermore, if the land was to
be developed we would be destory-
The federation bulletin says that some have spec- in 8 die habitat of many native
ulated the cause of the incident to be a recent showing P eo P le ^ ho are concerned with rais-
. .i w . r.i . tatx/o ingfamilies. Inis would be like cas-
m the Miami area ot the movie JAWb. ^
J trating them.
, i f "Far-sighted, long range plan-
Apparently some people don t know their shark from ning is essential if any of the tropical
a whale on the beach. land is to be used for future food
production, ” he said.
It is also interesting to note that according to the
Federal government, the sick baby whale had a perfect
right to wash up on Miami Beach. TtllS Cldy
The Marine Mammal Protection Act clearly states August 13, 1846 On this day,
that it is against the law to wantonly stab to death a pygmy one hundred and twenty-nine years
sperm whale, or any other marine mammal for that Captain John C. Fremont led
1 7 U.8. Army troops into Los Angeles.
ma ei ' This was during the Mexican War.
.... When the peace treaty was finally
Marine mammals therefore should take heart. The s j gned j n 1848, California became
U.S. government will protect you from crazy beachgoers. par t 0 f the United States.
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