Danielle Smith has some asses to kick.
Just messaging to let you know that last week the Government decided to effectively cancel the program that we’ve been supplying Highland beef to you through. They did this by placing a limit on how much beef we can sell and have set this at 3-4 beef per year (we did 25 last year).
After our current licence expires July 2026 the new limit will be in effect. This was done without a change to the Regulations (law), without Legislative debate or oversight, and no engagement with small agriculture producers who participate in this opportunity to sell direct to Albertans.
I spoke directly to Danielle Smith and RJ Sigurdson (Agriculture Minister) at the Okotoks town hall last evening. The Premier looked shocked that this happened and the Ag Minister told us to spend $1 million dollars to build an Abattoir (large provincially inspected slaughterhouse)
If you’d like to continue to have the option of purchasing Highland beef, or buying other meat products directly from farmers the best thing to do is send an email to the Agriculture Minister, his Chief of Staff, the Premier’s office, and your MLA. If your friends and family would like to have the option to purchase meat directly from farmers have them send emails too!
AGRIC.Minister@gov.ab.ca
josh.bilyk@gov.ab.ca
premier@gov.ab.ca
Your MLA
There are your contacts, Alberta. You know what to do.
More background here.
If they’re doing this for ‘Climate Change’ (i.e. to reduce the methane emissions from cows), they’re wasting their time. Besides the fact that ‘Climate Change’ is ‘political science’ (rather than real science), when Columbus arrived the bison population in N. America was estimated to be 180 to 240 million animals or more. That’s less than the number of beef & dairy cows in N. America today.
Shouldn’t that read “that’s more than…”
Here are the cattle numbers by country:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cattle-population-by-country
Holy cow! India has a lot of cows. But, do they eat them?
gato’s first law:
“as soon as you allow politicians determine that which can be bought and sold, the first thing bought and sold will always be politicians.”
Alberta apparently has a leviathan bureaucracy complete with those working as partisan operatives and or green zealots. Captured institutions cannot be reformed but only eliminated. It sounds like the “asses” that need kicking includes an Ag Minister. If a Cabinet Minister doesn’t know about a regulation change, he is either lying or incompetent.
100%
While I’m “dead set” against the selling of dead stock from garages in NE Calgary which was occurring last autumn – winter, I think that’s already covered by provincial health legislation.
All this while PM is parading Calgary Stampede with white cowboy hat – he should be sued for cultural appropriation. He’s a EU eco-Socialist, he should don a soviet-era Lenin hat.
Letter (e-mail) sent.
The problem with bureaucrats is that there are no repercussions or accountability for bad decisions. A bad decision that destroys lives results in a promotion or, at worst, a transfer.
I rarely buy meat of any kind from my local Safeway … here in overpriced N.CA … but I decided to peruse the Safeway meat cases while shopping for our pre-July 4th holiday. I noticed two things.
1) The area dedicated to BEEF in the Safeway meat cases has shrunk down to about a 3ft wide section of the refrigerated case. 3ft of beef. That’s it. And a raggedy-looking beef at that.
2) I looked at a package of a (too thin for me) Rib Eye steak … and it was priced at $54 !!! Wha wha whaaaaat!? I bought nothing, and was sorry that I bothered to look.
You want to STOP beef eating? Spend decades demonizing “red meat” … strangle the supply … price it out of reach … and voila!! You’ve CANCELLED beef eating. And when that’s done? Spread bird flu. And then porcine diseases … your vegan betters have spoken.