NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE**PRACTITIONERS*

* Practitioner - One who practices an art or profession.

** Science - Knowledge, as of facts, phenomena, laws, and proximate causes,
gained and verified by exact observation, organized experiment, and correct thinking.

HARK! Two skilled, observant writers are on the bandwagon again! As if
Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" (2001) and Michael Pollen's
"The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006) carried insufficient warnings
that the American consumer is seriously endangered by an
UNNATURAL FOOD SUPPLY - A burden to our Health System.

And now there's a documentary of these journalistic warnings. MOVIES,
EATER'S DIGEST, Food, Inc. as described in Time Magazine, 06.22.09, P. 104.

Let there be credit where credit is due - These PRACTITIONERS excell
at telling Americans the score.

But where are the university-trained NUTRITIONAL SCIENTISTS?

There was a time when "land grant colleges" were completely involved
in the practicalities of farm management and safe food supply.
Your narrator witnessed a loyalty shift at a U. of MD. Nutrition Conference
in the late sixties. The AGENDA was over-loaded with pharmaceutical representatives
and invitations to corporate-hospitality-suites.

After a mind-boggling series of introductions to medicated feeds, the audience
respectfully stood up and greeted Dr. F. D. Morrison (Cornell), author of the classic,
Feeds and Feeding, 22nd and final edition, 1958.

Dr. Morrison was visibly upset with the presentations, and emphasized the critical
importance of range land for safe and sane animal husbandry.
The tide was obviously running against this nationally respected animal scientist.
Undoubtedly, one of the turning points, when land grant colleges
abandoned their historical mission, and slipped into corporate hands.

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