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ui a ffjnoriXKO--ihe name U derived from \he Iirsi- rtfrigcMiiva ship wihtch uea from Argentina to J-rafe in 15S' .mdvvnv culled Kflgortfiqwc ..nwred by her father. In IriBorifivoo, meat' it preded. lested lor skwut*. cut. pecked HfKi mutle ready for export. Diena is involved in every rtoge of this process. ** It it waiting work and t don't know any other girl doing it. I huVe * boyfriend who is the owner of a frtaorifico end wo cup talk about things like carcewes and ; offul. whereat a girl would |utt M,i; * How intereeting , add think l wns a MUe strange. They imagine that due U a dirty industry* and this place would be covered with bones, blood and fai. They don't reaHre bow hyghmlc and modem it ik, and how we are aubjeet to the most stringent rule* regard* I inu oteanllnea.*." . Thf pfom has a capacity to i prepurc cult of meat front about I UOOcarcasses a day. using 70 wor1 kern In the mornings and 90 in i the evening. The tUuphlerin* i in done near by. and carcauet brought in a spotlessly dean lorry to the plant, cut into quar- arranges bookiOiN on ne ship)., and discueso. any problems people v' M have wftt. lighting, tempera . or rsen damaged preferred living on the osc.rci* 10 living in Buenos Airo> and went there at much a \ib.e. wusobvioudy impress^ .ith the `U.s cuar.gv*. "When l ^ fjTT X*il try to meet women uno ieei the same way at I do so that wo can investigate the problem storage oartoo. ih is uaed to socia, life of the capital. She of women ", she say*. - I don't teeing animals being &Ja lightered, mentioned the exclusive Jockey think that problems there arc ur, and it no longer upsets her it Club, founded 75 years ago. diiferem from thos* anvwhere did at first. Membership is 60 a year, and else io the world--the mam one. She first beeama interested in this includes the wife and child * feel, it facing the opposition the work white n aocretary at ren uoder 12. Many of the of men when women start to another large, paciuns plant. So British community there are establish themselves as women in ehe decided "to train for the among the 5,000 nemben>."und their own right.'* production tide of the industry, -one of their swimming pools is She feels women get * raw deal and for three years learnt how .for the exclusive use of nu*- io society, hut that they wdl to recognize and prepare cum of horses. ' have to be pushed into uikiiv meat ** Now 1 am gUo that I'm The other woman regarded some nctioo. involved in managing part her eetsncis as rather like a ' We do not have enough nur of the country's pnocspal ' hippie opnunupe, with .every aery schools, woman never have industry.** , . body joining in the work. economic independence, and Argentina hat a cattle popu She drtjyc there in a large girls are pressurized into marry lation of 51 million, producing lorry--it was 24 hours away by ing early, Many are made to feel 2\ million tons of beef * year. road but ber hutbani owned an unhappy if they are not marned Of thia, 80 pet cent ia for homo aeropltne--and had designed all by >25. These are the sort ,f consumption--the people eat an the surrounding garden. She thing* 1 hope to be able to in average of Jtuti about half a bred horses, knew *11 the vestigate." pound of beef a day each--and workers* names and was fasci - Her butbaod,' a researcher, the remaining 20 tper cent H nated by. till, their superstitions. agrees, and ha* often defended exported. Of this, five per cent One man driving past on4d.iv, ,lhe cause of women. comes to Britain. was amazed to see her in full However, Argeotine women The cuttle are reared and gauchocostume riding round the have solved one problem--the fattened on the country's 400,000 estancia, and once an old man " pill'' is. available at ans estanciaa. enomoua ranches on of 99 came and asked for Work. chemist without a doctor s pie* the vast plains of the Pampas *' We gave him accommodation scriotion. As Mrs. Simpson area, which covers almost a and he now looks after the trees saief: " You can seed your chil quarter of a million square mile* --and we look after him." dren out to.buy it Jar you." Science Report TW 1170 POLLUTION This it fortunate, because P.C.B.* of journal called Environment less than a tenth as toxic to birds (the term standi for polychlorinated Pollution, indicate that bird* from as D.D.T., whtch in turn m about a biphenyU) are usco in numerous wide range of habitats through tenth as toxic * dieMrin. Chemical absorbed industrial applications and wui* probably be far more costly to restrict than most pctUciccs. 1"hcy find their way into tne environment through the smoke sne effluent from factories and tbe exhaust from aircraft engines. out Britain contain small quantities of P.C.B^ in ilictr tissues- Vor.i affected ate iuke and river birds from the MidkimU, est and south of England. *um* of which-e.-ritained up to DOO parts per million in iheir Jive:'*. Also, the population decline nf birds such as the peteenne (..Icon and the sparrow hawk eoncuied in space and time with the introduc tion of altlrio, dieldrin and hci'iacl,. lor, in the mid-1950s, tsiicrcaa The first sign of P.C.Bs in wild The ubiquity of the cnemk-a! P.C.U.s prohnbly entered (is en by birds life was found in the ea.-iy l**6Ms when chromatogram peaks " of an unknown chwnicil were noticed | B> Nature Times News Service in bird tissues being anr,tyred tor D.D.T. Pour years ago <he peak 1I Birds in most region;, and was identified as being due to P.C.H.l Since then `he .-igs and habitat- of Britain curry uneli tissues of b:rd< n .'nan) yaru of i amounts of the industrial Britain have beer, vfviec.cd for vhcmivnl known as P.C.B.* in measurement or their P.C.B.s von* t ilseii body tissues. aco-Tding to tent. I an cxlcn-ivc survey carried out lait Prcsti. D J Jefferies and t I at the Monks Wood experimental station. Hui the chemical has prohahli accounted lor fairly lew deaths in the wild, although it- N. W. Muorc. wcntii:;. at the MooW> Wood *\f.'itr,r-.i*', ststion. b.<ve cotnp.etec. an ara'ysi* of more th.n 50*) l:vei j and <asv coi* fected between 1964 *nO. 9W..The nut) imped* breeding success. roull'. rcnuried m i,.c > <-l u'uc suiucsts that.' like tbe orpanochTorme pc-.icidce. they are rcMS* t..nt to natvrh! mean* of degr..dntion. Another iim.ianty is that tr.cy vironment in the 19-tOs. Although the P.C.U.s u-y not haw caused any sudden p. ouuiion avCumulute hi-the bodv tat. so pre cr^sli. it is Isird to rule out moic datory biro- at the lop oi tovit iriidioiiv vuh-lclhal of.'-. In chains arc -he rrnist at risk- In lii.-t, there is -.<mc evidc.;.* lu sug^enrr.i) the quantities of P.C B.'> pe.t that P.sl.B.s may ho pari!) re arc of the mi me order of mugn'l.u! sponsible for ihe vvidc.mc i>t breed..s me re'iu-*f.' ct OA>.(. in bud in^ fui'urc iiinoog bn.-.- p*e tisdie. that hj*s ocvurred :nvo tnc "ar Could the P.(\B.` have c;srd m Europe 3(td Uio Un.iou the Ila-nape O ;ld lilc. p,irt:c,.i.ir'\ birds of ruy. tftwt h.s been ni\nhided to the o.'iMro-chioi.ne r-':.ciues ? The Moiks Wood acientis'v Sou'co : Ettviiomnon:..' I'o!. il cn. No!, 1. P. 3, l`T.). 1'^vr i'uehsnm^ <`o. rule this out because teedHiu ,nfv;i- ad Vi Nature-Tiuiea .Ntl geemee, m. tiw have -Un-.u llial P.C .11 \ ,.i c t |V7it. M0NS 031551