Is the Agriville beef forum dieing like the industry or is everyone planning a trip to Phoenix with our 164 million dollar gift from George?
How about a preview of my ABP candidate speech. May have to wrestle good old Diane for the mike after the first three minutes that is supposed to be in the rule book. Mommy said it took me five to spew it out. 70 word Rules were bent in the ABP annual report for almost every other person running ----and to think I followed the rules for that.
My name is Randy Kaiser and I am one of the founding members of Beef Initiative Group Canada. BIG C is an organization that traveled across western Canada in front of thousands of producers, three and a half years ago when this B.S. Economic crisis first began. Our presentations included some genuine alternative solutions and a lot of listening to primary producers suggestions.
As always Beef Initiative Group believes that it is time for the producers of this country to create our own solutions, manifest our own destiny and take back control of our industry.
I would like to make one or two quick points about our current situation before I offer some solutions that myself and the other members of BIG C believe will help us out of the current tailspin we find ourselves in.
- Streamlining a product to fit a generic need never produces profit for a supplier. The company doing the streamlining will always find the lowest priced supplier and in the case of multinational companies that amounts to some pretty low input, poverty based suppliers all over the world.
- We cannot deny the motives of any multinational company to create profits for shareholders or family. Searching the world for the lowest priced supply has meant the success of businesses like Walmart or even MacDonald’s. This search and ultimate agreement has left the suppliers in the very parts of the world that spawned these companies high and dry in every case.
- Companies like this have no interest in identifying their product as unique to a country of origin or even recognizing the supplier. Take the battle in the USA right now over Country of Origin Labeling. The lines are drawn between the multinational packers and producers.
- If we want our beef to be unique and special, which is a proven economic recipe for added value, we will have to accomplish this on our own.
- The solution to the faltering Canadian Beef Industry is to encourage diversity. Brand our wonderful Canadian Beef product unique to the world.
- Canada already has a number of advantages over the rest of the world.
1). A free and open politically democratic environment that allows it’s citizens to explore and move ahead with moral and honest solutions to problems. (That is as long as we can reign in the CFIA.)
2). A genetically superior Beef cow herd, mainly of the Bos Taurus variety, renowned the world over for it’s tender and tasty carcass. A cowherd supported by a determined and professional purebred industry dedicated to meeting the demands of a conscientious and aware consumer.
3). A climatic environment agreeable to fattening livestock that are housed out doors and intolerant of problems like foot and mouth disease which plague more temperate parts of the world.
4). A huge land base with an abundance of grass, stored forage and bi products of the cereal grain or bio-fuel markets.
Four advantages and four reasons why Canada will continue to be a place that makes sense to raise beef protein for consumers here at home and export that beef around the world.
The advantages that we are not using are even more due to our relentless desire to streamline our product for the multinational companies rather than encourage and support diversity and brand our Canadian product as unique.
BSE testing would set our country apart - period. No more games. No more reason for B.S. Economic sanctions. A lineup of new customers including customers in the USA who some will argue would shun our move toward testing. I would like to see the USDA challenge the importation of BSE tested beef in to the USA in front of the World Trade Organization. The Americans are already seen as a manipulating bully when it comes to food trade by most of the free world.
Passing legislation toward acceptance of BSE testing for marketing purposes would only be the beginning of course as we would then have to first ask, and then press the current packing industry in this country to test. This is our country after all and we - producers - consumers - and politicians alike make the laws. If the multinational companies want to continue to show there disdain for Country of Origin identification or brand identity, they may have to play the card they have been threatening us with lately and leave. Just the same as the Oil companies that are threatening to leave if we increase our royalty rates. Fat Chance. And if they do - we will finally be free to start this industry up again under our own control - producer owned control - producer directed control, and control with the best interest of the producer in mind.
I would love to share even more thoughts about removing hormonal implants for marketing purposes, - the New Zealand producer owned packing story - or the story of the pork industry in Denmark, - and thoughts about producer ownership here at home, however my three minutes is likely up. I am not going to beg for your vote, but I am certainly asking that you look at the alternatives that myself and Beef Initiative Group bring forward and keep searching for more yourselves. We are not only responsible for where we are in the industry right now, we are responsible for where it will be twenty years from now as well.
How about a preview of my ABP candidate speech. May have to wrestle good old Diane for the mike after the first three minutes that is supposed to be in the rule book. Mommy said it took me five to spew it out. 70 word Rules were bent in the ABP annual report for almost every other person running ----and to think I followed the rules for that.
My name is Randy Kaiser and I am one of the founding members of Beef Initiative Group Canada. BIG C is an organization that traveled across western Canada in front of thousands of producers, three and a half years ago when this B.S. Economic crisis first began. Our presentations included some genuine alternative solutions and a lot of listening to primary producers suggestions.
As always Beef Initiative Group believes that it is time for the producers of this country to create our own solutions, manifest our own destiny and take back control of our industry.
I would like to make one or two quick points about our current situation before I offer some solutions that myself and the other members of BIG C believe will help us out of the current tailspin we find ourselves in.
- Streamlining a product to fit a generic need never produces profit for a supplier. The company doing the streamlining will always find the lowest priced supplier and in the case of multinational companies that amounts to some pretty low input, poverty based suppliers all over the world.
- We cannot deny the motives of any multinational company to create profits for shareholders or family. Searching the world for the lowest priced supply has meant the success of businesses like Walmart or even MacDonald’s. This search and ultimate agreement has left the suppliers in the very parts of the world that spawned these companies high and dry in every case.
- Companies like this have no interest in identifying their product as unique to a country of origin or even recognizing the supplier. Take the battle in the USA right now over Country of Origin Labeling. The lines are drawn between the multinational packers and producers.
- If we want our beef to be unique and special, which is a proven economic recipe for added value, we will have to accomplish this on our own.
- The solution to the faltering Canadian Beef Industry is to encourage diversity. Brand our wonderful Canadian Beef product unique to the world.
- Canada already has a number of advantages over the rest of the world.
1). A free and open politically democratic environment that allows it’s citizens to explore and move ahead with moral and honest solutions to problems. (That is as long as we can reign in the CFIA.)
2). A genetically superior Beef cow herd, mainly of the Bos Taurus variety, renowned the world over for it’s tender and tasty carcass. A cowherd supported by a determined and professional purebred industry dedicated to meeting the demands of a conscientious and aware consumer.
3). A climatic environment agreeable to fattening livestock that are housed out doors and intolerant of problems like foot and mouth disease which plague more temperate parts of the world.
4). A huge land base with an abundance of grass, stored forage and bi products of the cereal grain or bio-fuel markets.
Four advantages and four reasons why Canada will continue to be a place that makes sense to raise beef protein for consumers here at home and export that beef around the world.
The advantages that we are not using are even more due to our relentless desire to streamline our product for the multinational companies rather than encourage and support diversity and brand our Canadian product as unique.
BSE testing would set our country apart - period. No more games. No more reason for B.S. Economic sanctions. A lineup of new customers including customers in the USA who some will argue would shun our move toward testing. I would like to see the USDA challenge the importation of BSE tested beef in to the USA in front of the World Trade Organization. The Americans are already seen as a manipulating bully when it comes to food trade by most of the free world.
Passing legislation toward acceptance of BSE testing for marketing purposes would only be the beginning of course as we would then have to first ask, and then press the current packing industry in this country to test. This is our country after all and we - producers - consumers - and politicians alike make the laws. If the multinational companies want to continue to show there disdain for Country of Origin identification or brand identity, they may have to play the card they have been threatening us with lately and leave. Just the same as the Oil companies that are threatening to leave if we increase our royalty rates. Fat Chance. And if they do - we will finally be free to start this industry up again under our own control - producer owned control - producer directed control, and control with the best interest of the producer in mind.
I would love to share even more thoughts about removing hormonal implants for marketing purposes, - the New Zealand producer owned packing story - or the story of the pork industry in Denmark, - and thoughts about producer ownership here at home, however my three minutes is likely up. I am not going to beg for your vote, but I am certainly asking that you look at the alternatives that myself and Beef Initiative Group bring forward and keep searching for more yourselves. We are not only responsible for where we are in the industry right now, we are responsible for where it will be twenty years from now as well.
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