Stop CBC and Suzuki propaganda...

[greybeard]

David Suzuki makes his living on sensationalisms. Ever week they have to come up with a story that will shock you. The world is going to end and your going to die is the predominate them. I used to watch him back in the 70’s when that stuff seemed more interesting. Maybe he was had better topics or maybe one of us (or both) changed.
The other night, I noticed the program on the guide and flipped it on to watch what he had to say about how the Canadian beef producer was getting a raw deal. The first thing I saw was a young woman suffering from CJD. Shocking to say the least. Of course, I just pushed the button and David is gone from my life forever.
I do note that he is stuck on the CBC. Rather a small audience for someone of his importance. Consider it preaching to the converted.

[ivbinconned]

Canadians have always had the need to be “scared” of something and Suzuki has made a living off of this fact.

This thread was not started to debate the merits of one David Suzuki.

The issue here is whether we should sit idly buy while our tax funded CBC, using lies, trashes our industry, and uses our own money to do it!!

I respectfully suggest that we all follow the courageous lead of Kathy Czar and her husband and let our voices be heard.

To sit back and criticize their effort as a waste of time just shows that many can talk, but are of no help when it comes to a fight.

[ivbinconned]

The first post on this thread I also posted on an Ontario non-agricultural site and the response supportive of the beef industry. But on the other hand very hard on Suzuki. The following is one of the posts:

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The worst part of it all is that Suzuki is a trained scientist.


More like a trained huckster........ironically Hollywood has graced us with the movie on Kinsey this month so we can see the paralells between Kinsey's life long quest to cloak his own perversions by cleansing it as science....he was an trained entomologist...he studied bugs.....how this qualified him to become the formost authority in human sexuality by associating with prostitutes and homosexuals is beyond scientific rationale.......it's a matter of left wing propaganda creating an icon to debase and deconstruct scientific and social norms.......similarly Suzuki gained fame for counting fruit flies as a endo biologist....how this qualifies him to be the authorative spokesman for every errant pseudo-scientific orthodoxy the left wants to evangelize is a matter for quantum leaps of logic.....one must look to the realms of covert politics and public manipulation by corrupted mass media for the answers.

the time has come for us to start the process of deflating these many false idols/icons of the loony deconstructionist left.

Suzuki is another lefty parasite milking the public teat with phoney scare mongering......there are real scientists that are in the process of publicly exposing this pseudo science bunkum and ravaging the unseemly repuations if its practitioners....in an effort to rescue pure science's reputaion form broader public disrepute.

Suzuki is running a con...and his 7 figure bank account proves it.....time for some iconoclastic investigation. Again we see the CBC complicit in a crime of public misinformation/manipulation......the reconing is near for both these sourses of disinformation

[grassfarmer]

Les, "How many ducks would you need to control 1500 acres of crop???"
Answer: why do need 1500 acres of crop to earn a living if industrial agriculture is such a success?

[wilagro]

Just finished watching Part 2 of the BSE saga as presented by Dr. Suzuki on the "Nature of Things".

Most excellent presentation as was Part 1.

What in hell is everyone bitchin' about?

[les]

grassfarmer... who said farming was a huge success?

[les]

I dont care a lot for suzuki either like a lot of you people here, but did he say anything that was not true??And look on the bright side who the hell watches CBC anyways unless there is curling on?

[gwf]

I watched the “Nature of Things” tonight. It was a program on CBC hosted by David Suzuki. (For those that might have been watching Beethoven’s Symphony #3, it was the program just prior). Although I do not agree with everything Suzuki has to offer, I feel he called the crisis on the BSE very fairly and revealing. I am no great fan of the CBC, but if they had not aired the program, would we be having this discussion? I do not recall Suzuki expressing an opinion on the cause of BSE, but rather he let you come to your own conclusion. The reasons the three scientists that were fired because of their stand on their revelations of BSE, would make very good reading or listening, and would perhaps shed more light on the fact that the CFIA and the government bureaucrats have maybe sold us a bill of bogus goods. Why are we so naïve to think that the crisis that is so devastating to all of us is going to be resolved by the present course of those that are making and implementing the rules? In reading some of the resolutions that will be presented to the up coming ABP Annual Meeting, one would never know that we as producers, are desperate for a resolve to the current and obvious short-comings of the status quo. It is difficult to know if the ABP represents the Alberta Government or visa-versa when it comes to policy concerning the livestock industry. I don’t know how much more hurt will have to be endured before we wake up and realize that we will have to fix this problem ourselves.

Only about 40% of the Western Canada Cow Herd is in Alberta. If and when the border opens we will still have to find a market for the over thirty month or maybe even 20 month cattle. If culls and drys represent up to 15% of the herd, that is still close to 700,000 head a year plus two years back-log of this type of cattle, that we will have to eat or export to somewhere other than the U.S. The border opening will have the greatest effect on the price of calves and under thirty month fat cattle. Everything else will stay on this side of the U.S. border or go offshore.

There is one proposition being put to producers by the Beef Initiative Group that has been supported by about 94% of nearly ten thousand producers in the four Western Provinces. It will be interesting to see of the Alberta Beef Magazine poll supports these figures. The concept of a producer funded Slaughter Facility as presented by the BIG-C, is being advance by the Manitoba and Saskatchewan governments, but does not have the support of the Alberta Government or the ABP.

The only thing producers need the Alberta Government and/or the ABP for, is to support and facilitate a vote of producers to accept or reject the concept of a producer funded slaughter facility. Then we can get on with what has to be done. If the vote is favorable, we can go to work, and if the vote fails, we will have to be satisfied with what we have now. Either way we will know what lies ahead.

We should be looking at ways to expand the livestock industry in a safe, efficient and profitable manner.