Meat Regulations Slaughter Small Business

We've been lucky, as we have an inspected facility nearby, but there are hardly any others in BC, none for hundreds of km from here, so where can people send their clean animals?

A lot of people, including my wife, are highly allergic to the chemicals they force into animals in the feedlots, so if the meat is switched, they'll get violently sick. Who's going take the responsibility?

On top of it, our inspected facility is now for sale, as the owners can no longer cope with the regulations forced on them either.

At the same time the government is removing regulations from a thousand necessary actions and areas, like mining, which is becoming an environmental disaster, which shows that their whole plan and intention is to kill the small produces and internationalize our lives under corporate dictatorship.

Ed Deak.

Excellent response Ed

I had you in mind when I submitted the article

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake

<blockquote> As of Sept. 30, the new rules will force all meat to be slaughtered in a provincially licensed facility. It also has to be inspected prior to being sold. </blockquote>Hmmmmm......just like they inspect All the cargo ships arriving in Vancouver......or just like they inspect all the dog and cat food from China........or just like they inspect toys with lead paint from same........? <p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
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Wasn't the part of the movement against the British government in India because they were forced to pay tax on salt, even if they made the salt themselves?

Hmmmmmm.

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Check the legislation very carefully!

I would think that it is legal to slaughter for your own use; consequently a cooperative might be the way to go.

Of course you may also supply friends who return the favour.

Surely you (us) bright people can think of ways to bypass this bullying rubbish the sole purpose of which is to drive the small, independent operator out of business.

Next time vote for the independent candidate!

In the meantime burn up the fax, phone, and email lines to your MPP.

H.F. Wolff

Great post from Diogenes once again.

Looks to me like the biggies have a special door into the regulator office once again making a farce of our public infrastructures with the agenda of removing regulations. Like if the problem is regulations rather than these special interest groups that are constantly screwing up the regulator and therefore the public.

Incidentally I read "bitter chocolate" from Carol Off earlier this year. Large food processor companies were described as as much corrupted as the weapons and pharmaceutical companies that really run our countries.
Interesting that the mainstream canadian or BC press (&public broadcaster) is not covering much of this. Vive Vive(&Dio)!

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

We never hear of any sicknesses caused by products from small farms and producers, but a constantly repetitious string of recall notices on meats etc. from large corporations.

There was an e-coli recall notice on some Safeway meats on TV last night.....again and again.

People are blaming governments, all the time, but don't realize that they're only following the orders of their owners, which in Canada's and BC's case are the large corporations, with their huge, tax deductible donations, ensuring "business friendly, good governments".

Ed Deak.

"People are blaming governments, all the time, but don't realize that they're only following the orders of their owners, which in Canada's and BC's case are the large corporations, with their huge, tax deductible donations, ensuring "business friendly, good governments"."
Bles you Sir!
for this has been one of my mantras sinse befoe i arrived here
and not to miss a thank you to gaulios, Thank yo!
and a dig at GWest, hey G nothing of value, eh? it seems your claim has been countered

Not being able to kill two birds with one stone gave rise to the shot gun



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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake

Restaurants and facilities that sell alcohol have provincial inspectors who come to the premises and do inspections. They pass or fail said facilities. There is something more to this new law. Someone is to gain by the actions of a capitalist government/partnership. Several years ago, shops in Chinatown could no longer hang dressed meat or fish (such as barbecued pork) in their windows yet we can walk in Safeway to purchase their chickens cooking on a spit.

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