Epiphany needed???

[foragefarmer]

"SF3, you're typical of some who say, "oh I love hog barns", but then return to their home in town at night."


Just like the investors and owners of the barns do. How many family farms are involved in these factory hog barns, how many farm sites are located at the barns sits? Nothing but vertically integrated, feed mills building barns, all the small guys have been squeezed out.

Not to mention the meat from the factory farms tastes like shit, full of antibiotics to keep them alive, so very few open hoop barns where the pigs can burrow and move freely.

Very interesting correlation between barns burning and low hog prices, one goes up when the other goes down!

Living down wind would definitely decrease quality of life!

[fjlip]

twelves miles away and still smell gets here. Fertilizer is great, not living near them. Barns are getting OLD, falling down even. Short term project...
Visit Lethbridge, wrong wind and WHOLE city is COW SHIT, smell of money it is said.

[grassfarmer]

Seems to be a lot of that in this part of the world Braveheart. Nepotism is probably worse than anywhere I've lived before. MASC staff doing crop insurance inspections that are clearly in conflict of interest positions. Seems lots of people have no ethics.

[oneoff]

C'mon council members...defend your peers. Tell us your personal secrets of success in protecting your ratepayers from instances such as expressed above.

Tell us how clay capped roads just don't happen to all run by council members land. And how does clay supply giv associated families, close friends and typically the member themselves.. cheques of $20,000 to $470000 and no limit is theoretically possible.

Who gets to bill for a full day "dealing with lawyers confirming my defence to right to privacy act".

NO I DIDN'T MAKE THAT UP.

And on the same expense sheet how about another full day "fighting fire", and another full day spent on "oil company concerns".

All billed and all paid by out of my and other's taxes. And all OK'd by the rest of council which one must assume does look at billing; but considering it isn't nearly all "their" money; one should expect that such crap gets tossed before being paid.