You will live in a pod and eat bugs.
…the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is moving forward with expanded identification and traceability regulations that will require farmers and ranchers to report livestock movements in significantly greater detail. These rules were first proposed in 2023. Conservatives opposed them then, and they oppose them now, because they add new regulatory costs at a moment when households are already being asked to absorb higher food prices and producers are operating under documented financial strain.
(A point repeatedly missed by commentators who write on food prices: commercial beef is sold at auction. Like most western Canadian commodities, there’s no mechanism for producers to recover expenses because they don’t set the price, and their regulatory costs aren’t passed along to the consumer directly.)
John Barlow, the Conservative agriculture critic, released a statement warning that these regulations add yet another layer of red tape onto producers who are already being crushed by higher fuel costs, higher energy prices, labour shortages, drought, and regulatory overload. These aren’t large multinational corporations. These are family farms, ranchers, and community-based agricultural groups trying to survive.[…]
Indeed: The same dysfunctional @liberal_party that has ‘misplaced’ millions of TFW’s, Int’l students, uninvited immigrants etc., and DON’T CARE about finding & sending them home …. Now wants to pinpoint & track EVERY f*kin cow in the food chain??
Farmers would be required to track and report routine livestock movements that were previously informal or community-based, including movements tied to agricultural fairs, 4-H events, rodeos, and local exhibitions.
Those groups have been very clear about what this means. It means more paperwork, more compliance costs, more liability, and fewer events. It threatens youth programs, rural traditions, and the local economies that depend on them. This isn’t theory, these organizations told regulators directly that they may not be able to continue operating under the new rules.
More detail from Alberta Beef Producers: Proposed Part XV of the Health of Animal Regulations
The Ministry of Compliance seems to primarily focus on the western provinces. There’s a reason for that.
Also, don’t talk about the ostriches.
It’s a great time for a referendum, wouldn’t you say?
What was that saying????
Oh yeah, “the west wants out!!”
It’s going to be an interesting year.
The nanny state knows no limits to the futile regulatory obsession in the pursuit of making the world safe for morons, up until it collapses from bankruptcy or revolution. The EU is a model for such suicidal parasitism.
I am sorry I thought by now you all understood the cost of doing business with the EU ?
If you sign up to trade with the EU it is on the explicit understanding that you implement EU regulations.
You know level playing fields and all.
Depending on how desperate you are to trade with the EU you may get a period of grace but its ultimately non-negotiable. Which is why all the pesky little things like having eggs stamped with a code to say they are from listeria free herds etc ends up with egg shortages that no one could have foreseen, right?
So yeah ask european farmers about beast movements and tracking and figure why there isn’t the same beef and lamb industry in europe as there is in the Americas.
Some agreements get a the country like NZ a pass for 10 years (all for a lousy market of 3% of its output) but that date eventually comes due and then its the farmer left wondering how the hell did this happen and of course all the entrenched bureaucracy lower their eyes and continue on.
Din’t do nuffin, nuffin to do with me, international agreements you see.
I am guessing your turd could not have cared less about getting a longer period of grace to put it far into the future, because you have to trade with europe, after all strategic alliances and markets certainly, especially after you piss off the neighbour.
Which begs the question of course why this is not so obvious. Why do you think you didn’t send all your stuff to europe before?
After watching the CFIA’s culling operations ramping up, I think this track and trace expansion is to enable more culling of cattle herds. Do a bit of research on Paul MacKinnon, head of the cfia, especially his connections to Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act. IMO, Paul MacKinnon has been put in charge of the cfia for reasons that have little to do with health and safety.
Hopefully, the provincial governments in Alberta and Saskatchewan will be able to intervene to protect farmers and ranchers from Ottawa…again. The federal government’s war against the prairie’s energy, resource and agriculture industries isn’t exactly subtle.
The war on beef is just one element of the war on everything good being pushed by commies, greenies and globalists.
Eating less Meat won’t save the Planet. Here’s Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
Interesting ‘cover screen’ (or whatever it is called) on the YouTube video.
Didn’t watch it because of the “Human activities have been the main driver of climate change” line right underneath that opening screen.
“Didn’t watch it”
More poor you.
L- The Liberal/W.E.F. war on meat is going to pump up the support for the Alberta Prosperity Project and the Sask. Prosperity Project, too. After the C.F.I.A. Using the 100 RCMP against the farmers, who owned them to facilitate the slaughter healthy ostriches. That is looking like a test. This will force the Alberta and Saskatchewan government to accelerate replacing the RCMP with the Marshals service too defend farming. What’s number of RCMP, who want to join the Marshals Service and become the heroes that the RCMP were, before the Liberals chose to use them for partisan political purposes?
This is how the lefts “wage war” on what they deem unhealthy, or morally corrupt. Here in CA … PG&E is allowed by the CAPUC to charge 3x the market rate for Nat. Gas … because “using fossil fuels is bad for the environment”. They use high prices and economic punishment to FORCE behavior. Just now, the left has realized they can get away with that for “red meat”, which they deem “unhealthy” and “immoral”.
Yes, this is command and control Socialism cum Communism.
“We, the producers and directors of The War on Beef gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Ontario’s farm organizations, without whose passivity our progress to date would not have been possible.”
Worst part is that these rules will be in place raising ranchers’ expenses forever but after a flurry of activity (persecuting those that don’t comply) the reports will never be used again. This will create 2 new government jobs one printing the reports and one filing the reports.
Start asking the Climatistas how many bugs they ate today to save the planet.
If the answer is none ask them why they want all the birds and whales to die.
Don’t they care???
Gang Green doesn’t want bugs eaten. They want us to die.
Compare for them the landscape before and after the demise of the Plains Bison. Ask them if cows are still bad. Then ask them if the 19th Century Europeans were climate visionaries.
I don’t see where these new regs apply to the sacred dairy cows in the east…did I miss something?
Good catch; bankrupting regulation do not apply to dairy cattle, ie; eastern Canadians, ie; liberal voters.
Sacred Cow Watch
Should I find it ironic that many TFW’s and international students don’t eat beef?
But chicken, for some reason, is hot on the menu.
Sounds like the USDA RFID mandates, but on steroids and less technologically advanced.
Eat More Cows.
So, if I move 6 cows and heifers thru the barbwire fence into my neighbours small pasture to chew the grass down, I write that down? What details do I include?
1015am..opened the ear gate.
1022am..cattle moved almost in single file thru the gate.
1024am..there was a fair amount of methane released.
1027am..closed the ear gate.
1044am..had a coffee out on the porch.
1132am…went out and roped the smallest heifer who came back thru the gate I didn’t
close properly.
1138am..heifer back in the neighbours’ pasture and gate securely closed.
The report will be concluded at the end of August when I herd the fat and happy cattle back home.
One more movement of cattle….
645am….Sept.15…heifers loaded into the trailer for a road trip.