In 2019, animal rights groups have adopted more aggressive tactics.
In March, a group of protestors showed up at a dairy near Waterloo, Ont. They barged onto the farm, even after the producer told them to stop, and removed a dead calf from the barn.
“The farmer said, ‘you’re not allowed to come on my property,’ and they said, ‘yes, we are,’ ” said Kelly Daynard, Farm and Food Care Ontario executive director.
Then in late April, a large group of activists marched into a hog farm in Abbotsford, B.C., and occupied the farm for several hours.
They’re coming for agriculture like they came for pipelines and our governments are asleep at the wheel.
The comments at the producer seem to sum it up: They are right, you are wrong, the law doesn’t matter.
They are right, you are wrong, the law doesn’t matter.
That mentality has been around for decades. I remember hearing that preached in Sunday sermons under the guise of “civil disobedience” and “social justice”. If one gets arrested for it, then it’s the law that’s wrong and unjust.
This is just another example of legislating from the bench. Lawfare as practiced by leftist Judges. These intellectual defectives need to be removed from the bench. They are catapulting (no felines were harmed) our society into anarchy. Law-LESS-ness is being promoted by incompetent Judges.
Yes what I don’t understand is that judges don’t make laws but the politicians are quite happy to pretend they do. Abortion anyone? By striking down the previous law, the judges effectively made a new law allowing abortion anywhere anytime. Not that I’m particularly enraged by that issue, but it is the most egregious example.
On abortion, I think it is wrong but a woman has a right to chose and there are three choices for a woman, birth & motherhood; infanticide or adoption.
Also, it is not HER body as it does not have all her DNA. That’s one lie I detest.
I didn’t see any comments?
I haven’t read the Producer in decades. I used to subscribe but it was so left wing it finally drove me off.
These morons think it all comes from the grocery store.
It’s also why vegans should be registered.
Having lived in Lucan, Ontario for about 5 years all it would take is for a local red-neck (town is full of them) to “brush up” against one of the protestors vehicles with a rusty old snow plow blade on the front end of a stinky old Dodge RAM with no seat covers and that would send the message out that you cannot trespass on someone’s farm (I am not suggesting this, only speculating). Or, more likely, some idiot protestor will injure themselves while trespassing and sue the farmer.
I think a muck sprayer is a much better tool – covers a wider area, and can be used against fools on foot.
This reminds me of the way Stalin treated the Kulaks(independent farmers) in the USSR. It will not end well as the animal rights people have been dealing with CEO’s of industry that have an image to protect.Farmers,who are the owners, have their lively hood at stake and their good name to protect as well as their animals. Oh,by the way,I call vegans diegans as every thing that they consume is produced with diesel fuel.
These anarchists have gotten away with flouting the laws when it comes to the energy resource industry and we have been warned and knew that they would come for the farmers. While we have a federal government and some provincial that sympathize and aid and abet these anarchists.
Maybe the farmers should start retaliating. But most likely, like the oil industry, will begin to fight back after it is too late.
What will Scheer do?
We really should make that a bumper sticker. If he gets elected the answer is a resounding “Nothing”
Great, someone put new batteries into the Maxbot.
Temporary solutions to those kind of problems can only really be found without the state being involved. I recall back during the war in the woods, a group of contract loggers beat the RCMP to a road blockade and gave the protesters flying lessons over the embankment and got to go to work that day otherwise they would have had to turn around and wait weeks for an injunction (served by the company) and eventually an enforcement by the RCMP. Another example was on the North Coast when Green Peace chained themselves to some yarders (machines that drag or fly logs to roadside). The loggers were thinking of pouring honey on them and leaving them to the bears and when that became common knowledge their tactics changed.
I’m pretty sure farmers could think up something that would deter trespassing shy of shooting them. Hmmmm. how about some innovative uses of the liquid manure spreader for example…..
Yup. Just like this farmer gave Emma Thompson a nice organic treatment after trespassing on his land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyIed1K5ylU
I’d love to see that farmer show up to a few Shameless Sodomite Parades with his tractor and trailer in tow.
Thank you for that. I never owned one of those machines but I got to operate one (not fun) when I hired on with Tam roarin’ hog farms and I bin dreamin’ of doin’ like that ever since. Thanks for the laughs. I can not think of a more appropriate response to peta trespassers.
Let the bulls out. The manure spreader is a good idea, too.
Meanwhile Scheer is busy telling the Chinese that he will be even more flexible than Trudeau after the election.
Of course he can be flexible–Gumby has more of a backbone than him.
Just like Obama told Russia.
While you may believe McCallum’s foolish comments where has Trudeau stated that he will cancel Canada’s participation in the Chinese – Canadian Bank for instance; where has Trudeau stated he will crack down on the Chinese imports at the Ports with stricter inspections, et al. McCallum is a doddering old fool and has been an embarrassment to Canada for years. You may not think much of Scheer, however, checking some of his most recent Global interviews in B.C. in no way was there a suggestion by him that he would be more ‘flexible’ re the Chinese after the election. As a matter of fact the policies of his party appear to be much tougher [the port inspections for one] than anything Trudeau and his ‘advisors’ would even contemplate. It would be interesting to see where, what and who claimed that Scheer would be more flexible re the Chinese and just which liberal Canadian journo, etc. actually came up with this story….
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The “Beware of Snakes” signs work well, but you need to place them inside your barn where the protesters suddenly see them & panic.,,, I have used them effectively to keep berry pickers out of my yard, the ladies throw their pails away & run like hell…..They never come back…
Don’t try this in Texas. The neighbors will show up to help shoot.
Our governments aren’t asleep at the wheel.
THEY’RE ON THE OTHER SIDE.
Kevin is right. The government is the enemy of farmers. So are the banks who finance that government while cutting off credit lines to farmers:
https://reut.rs/30uyRck
There is a co-ordinated effort by citizens of nowhere on Wall Street, Bay Street, and in DC and Ottawa to drive north American farmers out of business, help themselves to their land for pennies on the dollar, and make a fortune exporting everything worth eating to their business partners in communist China.
If it’s any consolation, once China has control of our farmland, you won’t hear another word about the rights of pets, or about colonies of feral cats. Cats and toy dogs will become too valuable as a source of meat—and not among our Chinese overseers either.
Where is Willie when we really need him?
Free pork sausages at the gate.
Property ,as in private property and the God Given right to protect it,is the foundation of civilization.
I keep hearing,no one should die over property, or variations on that theme, as in no one deserves to die. Really?
Darwin awards all round, we obviously need some Polar Bear Ranchers,close to the urban centres.
Although I have met one or two bulls who would have loved to meet these bipedal nitwits in an open field.
one rack of the action on a pump shotgun and watch them leave in a hurry
Have you ever actually tried that? I’ve had mixed results. Two guys trying to steal my Harley ran like bunnies. Didn’t even look back. An other time, a big fat guy defied me to shoot him. Refused to leave. Eventually, the cops cuffed him and took him away.
As I have said many times in the past, one must destroy one’s enemies before they destroy you. If you do not realize just who is your enemy you will lose.
my take on it?
the farming sector population is a tiny minority now, what with mechanization etc.
and that tiny minority is swamped during parts of the year with getting the crop planted in some window in the weather.
the rest of the time keeping up to date with contradictory regulations.
and wondering why the crystal ball is fogged up so often.
and and and and.
thus, an ideal target for activists and trial by agenda.
keep it up, keep it up there activists. some time in the future, well, given enough time ANYTHING can happen.
or cease to happen.
food does NOT originate in the local co-op. it originates in and on the ground. according to oh, say, farming methods adopted and perfected for, what’s the latest estimate? 30,000 years?
I wonder what it would be like to infiltrate one of these outfits and if I could figure out a way to sabotage the bunch and make it look like an accident, you know, the building where the planning meeting took place burst into flames and unfortunately the doors were blocked by furniture left where it shouldn’t have been. that might be something to consider in my twilight years.
as long as my vision holds out, then see if my strategy of ‘take as many of them with me as I can’ works out.
go*&$^d*&$^#mmed leftists.