No Sacred Cow

[parsley]

I simply dont find it is within business-practices
acceptability to have all others jailed and fined for
trying to sell their oil paintings, while claiming a
portrait monopoly for myself, even if my uncle is
Prime Minister of Canada.

Its wrong morally, legslatively, fiscally, and
socially.

[parsley]

Your kind of thinking needs to be composted,
rockpile Pars

[Kodiak]

No, I'm not interested, nor in a race to the bottom. Just looking for a level playing field, equal opportunity, and an end to political privelege. Are those not your ideals as well?

[riders2010]

So we want someone to produce the cheapest bottle of milk the cheapest egg and expect it to be the best quality?

[rockpile]

Kodiak, in a perfect world yes those would be my
ideals as well. Parsley, in your words and vitriolic
attack I sense nothing more than an acceptance of
how it really is, and you don't like it. A while back I
believe Joe posted a video on farming in Argentina,
and Shaney posted an interview on farming in the
Ukraine. Pretty well no one paid attention, but like
leonardo playing the role of Howard Hughes in the
Aviator kept repeating at the end - "It is the way of
the future". You simply don't matter anymore and
I'm very happy to be out of the squirrel cage. Still
enjoy stirring shit though. Good luck with your
compost Pars.

[parsley]

How it was in Canada, until enough stood
strong, and refused the argument that a person
should be jailed for trying to sell what they grow.

Regulatory production is an idea that has
'passed' and will continue to go,the way of sour
milk. I'm happy with the metamorphosis of so
many young farmers' thinking. It's you rocky, who
will lament, while I celebrate the 'youngers' who
no longer have to jail the govt-unlicensed
productionists. ha! Call it vitriol!
Pars

[riders2010]

I don't disagree that farmers should have the right to sell where they want. But at the time the law was they could not. Therefore until the law is or was changed if you did different you were in the wrong it was illegal and although morally it was wrong for them to be jailed it was the law at that time. They chose to break it.

There are many laws I may not agree with and maybe feel they do not apply to me but I obey them until they are changed.

In regards to the cwb if the minister at the time would have let those farmers through, would that have been fair to the farmers that followed the law and committed grain to the cwb? no, even though as I said all farmers should have had that right to begin with.

Parsley who is saying regulated production is not the in thing? Not consumers, consumers are very pleased at the quality etc. of the dairy industry. I for one do not want any foreign milk from some rat eating countries on my table for my kids, just because someone has a warped idea that money is the only thing of value.

[FarmRanger]

<i>"Parsley who is saying regulated production is not the in thing? Not consumers, consumers are very pleased at the quality etc. of the dairy industry. "</i>

Except for the fact that Canadian consumers aren't given a choice. You are forced to buy the stuff that is twice as expensive or do without. As far as quality goes, I've never heard of anyone dying from eating California cheese.

[riders2010]

Well you got me there because I never heard of anyone dying from eating a rat either! lol

[riders2010]

However when you get rid of our dairy and egg industry what choices will we have then? We will be subject to the standards of the other country. What if California goes broke and no cheese, then where.

[riders2010]

Also how does California produce cheese and ship all that way here cheaper? by using basically slave type labor. Our oil industry has a campaign for the world to buy our oil because the workers are paid well the environment is not compromised so why is that slogan good for oil and not for producing milk and cheese by paying the producer fairly as apposed to slave labor.

[cottonpicken]

I believe we should supply manage running shoes
so that the price will double and people making
running shoes get way more money out of our
pockets,otherwise the entire running shoe
business will be destroyed and the quality will be
destroyed,and my god think of the children do you
really want your kids in cheap running shoes that
will make them trip and fall,and for god sakes
think of the health care costs that will come from
all these poor little kids going to emergency
rooms,dont you see my logic and how our society
should be structured around my logic,for gods
sakes we are talking about running shoes!!!!

[riders2010]

I don't eat running shoes!

[Happytrails]

riders you said "Also how does California produce cheese and ship all that way here cheaper? by using basically slave type labor." Pretty loose with the slave label and not very accurate. I've seen their dairies. They are not my cup of tea but the people working there are surely not under duress.

[cottonpicken]

Do you eat when you goto the u.s?