If you ate ANYTHING today...
...thank a farmer... before they go out of business...
The group has been lobbying since 2008 to get the provincial and federal governments to address stipulations in the Ontario Cattle Hog and Horticulture Payment (OCHHP), and Agri- Invest programs that they say have left young pork farmers in danger of losing their businesses.Says Ontario Minister of Agriculture Leona Dombrowksy...
"We are pretty well flat broke," said group spokesman Wayne Bartel. "I couldn't even pay my feed bill this month."
"I have been in regular contact with the Ontario Pork Council," she said. "We want them to bring us a plan."A plan, Leona?
You mean like the video game guys did?
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Many moons ago, our neighbour decided to raise a few laying hens. He sold us some of his extra eggs, maybe a dozen every few weeks, at cost.
Until somebody narked on him and called the Egg Marketing Board. He apparently was too good at this to be a hobby...
Get rid of every food marketing board you can name, and you'll see wealthier farmers.
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remember the dumbstick government bureaucrats who wanted to jail a dairy farmer for having the temerity to market that well-known poisonous industrial byproduct... raw milk?
i guess the fiberals are thinking we can just buy all our meat and produce from some place like... i don't know... china.
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Maybe a silly question, but I'm wondering why you call your blog the "Halls of Macadamia". Just wondering.
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no such thing as a "silly question" my friend.
when my son, neophyte, was a toddler.. he was always spitting out spoonerisms. for example, he came home from grade 1 or 2 one time... and tried to tell us about the kids in his class who were having trouble keeping up... you know... "the strugglers".
we never failed to be enchanted as his terms were often more appropriate than the more commonly accepted phrases.
in time, we incorporated some of these phrases into our daily lives.
anyway, this one is a play on the hoary old and often overused term... "halls of academia".
we're out here in the sticks, hence, well... you know.
fwiw, it's been almost three years now... and you're the first person who has ever asked.
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This is the sort of bureaucratic loggerheads which shows how far form reality lovely Leona is. If she wanted a plan, she should have stipulated what kind but that's not why they went to her.
We have the same sort of thing over here.
Sure, sure let's bail out even more inefficient pork producers with even more of the government subsidy pork producers are already receiving... now I don't eat pork but have you ever wondered why the price never lowers significantly?
Perhaps, just perhaps, its time for those who can't make a go of it raising swine to find a new business plan rather than insisting on more of my tax dollars to subsidize their living. But hey, that's just me.
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sorry, kate... if we're gonna subsidise anybody here... should it be gm, chrysler... a video game company... or the people who provide food to every person in this country three times a day?
i know which way i'd vote.
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Even during the great depression the United States produced more food than necessary. An unfortunate side effect of the subsidies provided to producers meant that the food purchased by the government was destroyed instead of being available for purchase by poverished people.
Stop all subsidies. Remove all farm quotas, boards, licenses etc. and allow the market to work.
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"langmann says... Remove all farm quotas, boards, licenses etc. and allow the market to work."
that'd work for me.
of course, it'll never happen... unlike actual monies for actual working people who produce actual products... government pork knows no limits.
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Yep. True.
Speaking of eating, it is hard to believe that this is the latest big deal....
And where did I ever suggest we should be handing out government subsidies to anyone? - Let alone those who persist in pursuing a failed business model and that includes farmers in my book.
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