Big business is here to stay, the Commission concluded-in farming and marketing as well. The question of whether big business is ethically good or bad is considered irrelevant. The family farm is now only nostalgia, although the Commission calls it a highly revered concept useful in its day. The production-marketing system for food is looked on as one entity-a highly efficient industry that compares well with any other segment of the economy. Statistics are no longer considered a business secret. Through a computer that flashes information on a screen, the marketing (and farmer) executive has all possible information on quantity produced and shipped and on prices for his company and competitors. This only intensifies the need for top-notch managerial decision making; the future is still unknown. Webster's 18th Collegiate no longer defines the word independent. It is noted as archaic, but the reader is referred to interdependence and responsibility. Oh yes-advertising and promotion are here to stay-an accepted and integral part of our economy. But we've licked the problem of trading stamps for the last time. They now come with self-sealing mucilage that adheres only to the special paper used in trading stamp books. To return to the here and now-the actions that result from the Com-