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Pesticides: A Contribution to Agriculture and Nutrition

Pesticides: A Contribution to Agriculture and Nutrition is a pleasure for me to address myself to the subject of in relation to nutrition, for it is in this area that make their great contribution to our health as a nation and to the world's health. I think it is important, first, to attempt to bring the subject of nutrition and food supply somewhat into focus. I am certain that it is trite for me to state that the United States is one of the most abundantly fed nations of the world. Yet, because it is so commonplace, we perhaps fail at times to recognize that our housewives have access to the greatest variety of foodstuffs ever made available to a general population of any country. Their daily choices in foods exceed those of the royalty of yesteryear, thanks to the unprecedented strides in the production, processing, distribution, marketing, and conservation of food we have made, especially, during the last three decades. Those of us who were reared in rural America remember the general store, with its cracker barrel-and, if in the South, its salt pork and molasses-its overalls, and a handful of tins, in which the housewife, if she were fortunate in her home canning, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

Pesticides: A Contribution to Agriculture and Nutrition

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is a pleasure for me to address myself to the subject of in relation to nutrition, for it is in this area that make their great contribution to our health as a nation and to the world's health. I think it is important, first, to attempt to bring the subject of nutrition and food supply somewhat into focus. I am certain that it is trite for me to state that the United States is one of the most abundantly fed nations of the world. Yet, because it is so commonplace, we perhaps fail at times to recognize that our housewives have access to the greatest variety of foodstuffs ever made available to a general population of any country. Their daily choices in foods exceed those of the royalty of yesteryear, thanks to the unprecedented strides in the production, processing, distribution, marketing, and conservation of food we have made, especially, during the last three decades. Those of us who were reared in rural America remember the general store, with its cracker barrel-and, if in the South, its salt pork and molasses-its overalls, and a handful of tins, in which the housewife, if she were fortunate in her home canning,

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American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association

Published: Jan 1, 1964

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