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Presidential Address 2007: The Society's role in being empathetic to the animal production industry

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C.R. BURKE

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production 68: 1-3

Mark Twain once said, "Its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid...than to open it and remove all doubt". I considered my strength as President to be more of stewardship than visionary. Alas, it is with some risk to fulfilling Mark Twain’s prophecy that I continue with this address. I referred to some of the previous Presidential Addresses; to get a feel for what was expected. Certainly, if the Society was to undertake all the "must-do's" and follow all the visions put forward, we would have made Microsoft Corporation seem like a cake-stall operation by now.

I think the take home message here is ...Continued

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