The Food Professor sat down to talk to some University of Montreal grad students the other day. The feedback he got confirms the suspicions of many that most universities have never altered their mission to graduate as many Marxists as possible.
Spoke with a group of graduate students and faculty today. The consensus in the room was clear: they believe food companies shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit, and meat consumption should be banned or at least heavily discouraged.
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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.
And the average family could afford to eat beef. https://t.co/UMeok2xMdi
— Katewerk (@katewerk) June 16, 2025
I just can’t unsee this video https://t.co/OffG19T9xI pic.twitter.com/ghjSyLrZnJ
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) May 12, 2025
London Free Press- London cricket plant cuts two-thirds of workforce amid cash-flow crunch
Aspire Foods announced the jobs cuts Wednesday. About 50 workers remain at the plant in southeast London that opened in 2022 and received $8.5 million in federal government funding.
“It has been challenging. The company was ramping up but it became clear we needed to improve yields and we did not have cost structure” to improve production while keeping workers on site, he said.
“The mechanical systems were challenged, they were overloaded harvesting. We had crickets everywhere.”
By 2050, Britain will be a Muslim nation, so good luck with that, buddy.
Britain must cut its meat and dairy consumption by up to 50pc to meet the latest net zero targets, the Government’s climate watchdog has said.
The Climate Change Committee said in an ideal scenario, meat and dairy consumption should halve by 2050 and products be substituted with plant-based options.
The proposals are part of new net zero targets that have been recommended to Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary.
In a letter to Mr Miliband, the committee said the Government must cut CO2 emissions by 81pc by 2035 when compared to the benchmark year of 1990. This would amount to a reduction of 200m tonnes from the current level of 384m tonnes.
Piers Forster, the CCC’s chairman, said persuading British consumers to change their diets would play a key role in achieving such massive cuts.
Mr Forster did not specify how the UK could reduce meat eating but options could include reducing subsidies for livestock, taxing meat products and a clampdown by regulators on advertising.
One that eats more beef and less soy.
Bill C-293 is arguably the most concerning legislation I've seen in 25 years. Under the guise of pandemic preparedness, it grants the government excessive power to potentially reduce meat consumption in favour of promoting plant-based diets.
My chat with @SenatorWallin. ⬇️ https://t.co/CygnAQfw5D
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 29, 2024
International Business Times- British Surgeon Blames Daughter’s Vegan Diet For Her Suicide; Lack Of A Key Vitamin ‘Made Her Psychotic’
Owen maintains that vitamin B12 deficiency can significantly increase the risk of severe cognitive disorders like depression, psychosis, and dementia. Additionally, he asserts that it can lead to diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Scientific research supports his claims.
Sun- Is Bill C-293 Canada’s ‘Vegan Act’?
Under this bill, public health officials could have the authority to close facilities they consider “high risk,” such as meatpacking plants, during pandemics and even “mandate” the consumption of vegetable proteins by Canadians — measures that border on the absurd. It’s hardly surprising that the private member who introduced Bill C-293 is Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who is known for his vegan lifestyle.
Research out of Tufts University three years ago created the Food Compass—a new guide to what is healthy that rivals the Food Pyramid for sheer lunacy. Advising us that Froot Loops and Pringles are healthier choices than meat and eggs, the authors of that research are now promoting ESG + Nutrition, in which their Food Compass informs governments and private enterprise on how to get the population of the world to follow along.
I refuse to pay a tax when my cattle fart. So don’t even think about it Justin. Denmark taxes cow farts.
National Post- The Liberal war on fish farming threatens Indigenous livelihoods
According to Kitasoo Xai’Xais Deputy Chief Councillor Isaiah Robinson, his community has enjoyed 99 per cent employment because of the salmon farming industry, which generates 51 percent of their income.
“Because of the work and dignity that comes with the salmon farming industry, we have had no suicides in my community of Klemtu for the past 18 years,” wrote Robinson in an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month. “It makes no sense to shut it down. There is no industry that can fill that space.”
New York Post- Vegan fake meats linked to heart disease, early death: study
“While ultra-processed foods are often marketed as healthy foods, this large study suggests that plant-based ultra-processed foods do not seem to have protective health effects and are linked to poor health outcomes,” she said.
The Lancet Regional Health- Implications of food ultra-processing on cardiovascular risk considering plant origin foods: an analysis of the UK Biobank cohort
Conversely, plant-sourced UPF consumption was associated with a 5% increased risk (1.03–1.07) and a 12% higher mortality (1.05–1.20). The contribution of all UPF was linked to higher CVD risk and mortality, and no evidence for an association between contribution of all plant-sourced foods and CVD incidence and mortality was observed.
“The Real Healthcare Crisis”
Excellent presentation. Well worth the hour spent watching it. There is a transcript for those who prefer to read along.
Toronto Star- ‘Flying blind’: How bird flu is revealing the lessons we didn’t learn from COVID-19
But four years into COVID, and with bird flu spreading largely undetected in U.S. dairy cattle for months now, he says he’s appalled governments aren’t doing similar surveillance for potential pandemic viruses.
And by golly, a famine is what we’re going to get.
WHO Director-General calls for a “transformation” of the food system, away from meat-eating and traditional agriculture, in the name of fighting “climate change”:
“Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease.”
“Transforming food systems is therefore essential, by shifting towards healthier, diversified and more plant based diets.”