The news is all over the contaminated meat coming out of that Brooks, Alberta meat plant. Now the U.S. Food Inspection has become involved and they never seem to tire of inventing inflated reasons to stomp all over Canada's cattle industry.
But the blame I place here is squarely on our own regulators who decided that LOCAL slaughterhouses were not good enough! The imposition of draconian and impossible standards forced, quite purposely, local small operators to shut down and the brilliance of the CFIA made meat contamination a MASSIVE issue, instead of a localized issue.
People are protesting an oil line through BC, protesting crude being shipped by tanker over very sensitive waters because an accident would have far reaching consequences. Well, the meat slaughter and distribution system as it is is every bit as dangerous to enormous amounts of people, and yet no one seem to protest that. Why? Because we are all stupid as sheep and believe every idiot in a lab coat who tells us THEY know what's better for us than we do! That the local butcher Bob is too dirty to continue providing beef to the local families and must be shut down and let's put slaughter/distribution in the hands of big faceless, nameless, massive companies where no one is accountable.
Neighbours all around me grow acres and acres of dope and are less bothered by enforcement than the guy who butchers a cow for someone else! THis is stinking insane! Every time I hear of a contamination that has travelled over thousands of miles and crossed borders I think, well, gee, why would anyone be surpirised? THe CFIA has set it up this way! The more people who get sick, the busier and more important they can pretend to be. Quick, make announcements, pull products, inspect plants, beat your own chest, pat yourself on the back but never let on that it was your killing the small local processor that left John Public vulnerable to this sort of huge, sweeping threat. I blame the Govt. I blame the CFIA and most of all I blame PEOPLE who are just so hopelessly ignorant. We all want a guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to us. Seat belts, helmets, immunizations, insurance policies and the CFIA. Ain't no guarantee but if you want one, someone will step up to put on a magic show and charge you mightily for it. Do you like your illusion of perpetual safety? Then pay up...and buy your mass meat, questionably raised and probably inhumanely slaughtered at the mass market. Ptuuiii (spitting on ground) is what I say to this whole mess, none of which is an accident.
But the blame I place here is squarely on our own regulators who decided that LOCAL slaughterhouses were not good enough! The imposition of draconian and impossible standards forced, quite purposely, local small operators to shut down and the brilliance of the CFIA made meat contamination a MASSIVE issue, instead of a localized issue.
People are protesting an oil line through BC, protesting crude being shipped by tanker over very sensitive waters because an accident would have far reaching consequences. Well, the meat slaughter and distribution system as it is is every bit as dangerous to enormous amounts of people, and yet no one seem to protest that. Why? Because we are all stupid as sheep and believe every idiot in a lab coat who tells us THEY know what's better for us than we do! That the local butcher Bob is too dirty to continue providing beef to the local families and must be shut down and let's put slaughter/distribution in the hands of big faceless, nameless, massive companies where no one is accountable.
Neighbours all around me grow acres and acres of dope and are less bothered by enforcement than the guy who butchers a cow for someone else! THis is stinking insane! Every time I hear of a contamination that has travelled over thousands of miles and crossed borders I think, well, gee, why would anyone be surpirised? THe CFIA has set it up this way! The more people who get sick, the busier and more important they can pretend to be. Quick, make announcements, pull products, inspect plants, beat your own chest, pat yourself on the back but never let on that it was your killing the small local processor that left John Public vulnerable to this sort of huge, sweeping threat. I blame the Govt. I blame the CFIA and most of all I blame PEOPLE who are just so hopelessly ignorant. We all want a guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to us. Seat belts, helmets, immunizations, insurance policies and the CFIA. Ain't no guarantee but if you want one, someone will step up to put on a magic show and charge you mightily for it. Do you like your illusion of perpetual safety? Then pay up...and buy your mass meat, questionably raised and probably inhumanely slaughtered at the mass market. Ptuuiii (spitting on ground) is what I say to this whole mess, none of which is an accident.
This was the main reason I quit!! It was awful, even chickens that fell to the floor and after an hour were picked up, then re hung without so much as a wash 
They should have not been processed at all. Some of this meat is sent over sea's but also was sent to KFC, Earl's Restaurants and Safeways 
to name a few. 
Everything worked out well and every time we eat anything from our own farm I am VERY thankful my family has this opportunity! I hope one day we will be able to supply many of our family members as well.