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Other complaints came in from Ralph Nader, who told a congressional committee that he suspected General Motors had been given advance notice of the price freeze, possibly during a recent meeting between Connally and G.M. President James Roche. (G.M. had raised prices on its 1972 models before the freeze went into effect, but agreed to rescind the increases...
...Give their employees an irrevocable right to a percentage of their retirement pensions after a fixed number of years. Javits' bill would grant 10% vesting after six years' service, increasing to 100% after 15 years. Another proposal, by Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, calls for legislation that would create pension-fund trusts to manage individual employee retirement funds-no matter who their employers...
...average, each American eats 116 lbs. of beef and 50 lbs. of poultry every year; Nader charges that all too often it is contaminated or diseased. In addition farm crops from citrus to cereals are annually dusted with about 1 billion pounds of pesticides. Such massive spraying, says Nader, is cause to fear for the environment and human health...
Horror Stories. Nader's group concedes that federal inspectors do a good job in checking 75% of the meat processed in the U S. But state inspection standards, which legally should be certified by the Agriculture Department, are in a jurisdictional limbo. In most states, according to the report, nearly un-monitored inspectors tend to be subject both to intimidation (one poultry inspector was pushed into a plucking machine) and to bribes (money, girls, or all the meat they can eat). As a result, the report charges, they routinely approve "4D" animals-dead, dying, diseased or disabled-for processing...
...American consumer has never been better protected," the Agriculture Department retorted last week. In addition, Agriculture spokesmen say, Nader's study "purposely deals in certain specific problem areas which are not typical either of the conditions that exist in the department or the food industry...