Ranchers Not Being Compensated -Big Business IS!

Why are the CBC the only ones to report this?<p> Incidentally, if you search google for <a href='http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&edition=ca&q=mad+cow+compensation&btnG=Search+News'>"Mad Cow Compensation"</a> - this story on Vive le Canada turns up as #4 <p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

Reading this story just cements the idea of government serving corporations not people! The people of Canada wanted to assist the ranchers, no one wants to see the small farmer go under, except maybe the big corporations. The article brings to mind many questions, and as there are so many conspiracies these days I wonder...could the farmer that moved to Alberta from the U.S., never having been a farmer/rancher before, had one cow with the disease, was compensated and went back to the U.S.; be the beginning of the story? Could the whole plan have been to support the globalization of farming, the takeover of small farms, the spreading of corporate farming in Canada by destroying the small family farm? When the government of Canada through our taxes pays the corporations(U.S. owned no less) and not the small farmer, compensation, I think that says it all! If you consider that these people are going broke, they will end up selling whatever is left for bottom of the barrel prices to whoever will pay, which will be the corporations...end of family farm and hello corporate owned and operated farms all across this country. Or you might say I am being paranoid...and it might be true but I think not, when the people behind the globalization program have a plan I think they see it through, with whatever means is available and apparently our elected officials are more than willing to help them along! Really how sick is this? One cow origin unknown but possibly U.S., one farmer origin U.S., then the U.S. bans Canadian beef and the Canadian government compensates the U.S. corporations and feedlots rather than the Canadian farmer. Why didn\'t the U.S. government compensate their own companies, since it was their country causing the hardship to their companies?

I\'ll admit that I don\'t know a whole lot about the cattle industry or the oil and gas industry but I have read that the U.S. stepped right up to cover the export markets closed to Canadian beef.

Who would benefit by cattle farmers going under in Alberta? Any oil/gas companies?



4Canada

Well certainly oil and gas would benefit, think of the royalties they wouldn\'t have to pay the farmers that do have those rights and many do as the land has been handed down for generations, but also corporate farms that can grow whatever crops they want, including the GM products, if corporations own our land, they own us, in effect the food chain becomes incredibly well controlled. The small farm is gone, but some of the farmers would probably be given low paying jobs (to appease the masses) on these new industrial type farms. We will be forced to buy what they grow at prices they fix. This article speaks to corporate welfare better than any I have seen, when the little guy is left to perish and the corporations are compensated at these rates by the Canadian people, I can call it nothing more than welfare!! I thought Klein didn\'t like welfare bums?

Klein is, a corporate welfare bum!

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Dave Ruston

Yup.