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