Giving thanks at Thanksgiving

[bucket]

Thanks Tom
With the amount of crop in the field, it is easy to have a huge amount of stress and anxiety. That being said we can be thankful that most of us are not worried about putting food on the table or a roof over our head. All of us know we have had weather like this before and we will see it again. It is very easy to feel sorry for ourselves and second guess our decisions in a year like this. I had the opportunity to go to India a number of years ago. It was an education to see how many people in the world are living in a condition of poverty with absolutely no opportunity to extract themselves from this level of existence. In these tough wet days in western Canada that we are struggling through I find I have to remember what I saw over there and realize we actually are the one percenters in the world. I see it irritates some to see people of faith express it but I will add that having faith gets me through these dark times and I am a better person for it. Happy thanksgiving everyone

What a vundervul story....the sad part is Canada has the product to help those poor people in India except the leadership of our country and theirs don't give a shit about poor people...

I listened to a wannabe candidate talk about the people that have to be fed in this world and I stopped him in his diatribe ...no leader wants to feed the world and I can't do it for free otherwise I end up like them....

Get off the nonsense that people are poor and not fed...that is a bad religion to follow like the climate emergency religion....

People could be fed...takes leadership....

[bucket]

I quit worrying about the starving people in the world long ago when the ads about it and a donation never ended even with celebrities "helping" the (ir) cause...

Its getting to the point where I am supposed to take a few hundred thousand dollar hit ...but I ask myself why isn't other industries taking a financial hit when things go south for them...


Evraz received 40 million for a trade spat that could have been helped had the government just built the pipeline...

AGT received 117 million worth of help buying a gifted used rail line to Churchill that only need about a quarter of that to fix....I have never received a gift of money from any government to fix used machinery....

Verdient foods that is back by investors received a few million to increase production ...non of that made its way back to primary producers nor were the investors asked to pony up....

Paterson Global foods received tax incentive to build in Manitoba...

Roquette the same

P&H received 10 million to fund an upgrade on its Ontario flour mill...and yet they still force you dump a super B in mouse jaw use a grate made for horse and buggy....

No elevator will get with the times, like its 2019, why do we have to move our trucks to dump...

Just another day when someone brings up starving people but its OK to say farmers are not that bad off...just gets me to thinking......we are not better off...

[tweety]

Celebrating the genocide massacre of Native Americans. Proud moment in Whities history now isn't it? So let's thank god we were able to kill them before they killed us and eat turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving.

[jamesb]

What a vundervul story....the sad part is Canada has the product to help those poor people in India except the leadership of our country and theirs don't give a shit about poor people...

I listened to a wannabe candidate talk about the people that have to be fed in this world and I stopped him in his diatribe ...no leader wants to feed the world and I can't do it for free otherwise I end up like them....

Get off the nonsense that people are poor and not fed...that is a bad religion to follow like the climate emergency religion....

People could be fed...takes leadership....

Don't mean to move away from Tom's original post but I never said that they needed food. Heck there is surplus in India now. That why our product and most others is pretty well banned or severely restricted. Until the supply drops and or price goes up to the Indian farmer we aren't going to sell them much. Yes our current federal leaders have absolutely made a mess of the situation. Trudeau has handled it very poorly. That being said we have no food shortages in the world. Farmers do too good of a job in increasing supply for the masses. We would have to see serious shortages before the world really changes in their attitudes.

[bucket]

Don't mean to move away from Tom's original post but I never said that they needed food. Heck there is surplus in India now. That why our product and most others is pretty well banned or severely restricted. Until the supply drops and or price goes up to the Indian farmer we aren't going to sell them much. Yes our current federal leaders have absolutely made a mess of the situation. Trudeau has handled it very poorly. That being said we have no food shortages in the world. Farmers do too good of a job in increasing supply for the masses. We would have to see serious shortages before the world really changes in their attitudes.

Then why are people starving in Yemen , Africa and other places and I still see ads for helping them...

India isn't immune from it either...

Its a lack of leadership, not a lack of production....but I think what the leadership is concerned with is there would be a production shortfall if they actually fed the starving...

[bucket]

And besides TOM is just rubbing it in knowing he has enough seed to sell next year for all the guys that will be short seed in the spring if they get this sprouted crop off....big $$$$$$$...I would be thanking everyone as well...

[jamesb]

Then why are people starving in Yemen , Africa and other places and I still see ads for helping them...

India isn't immune from it either...

Its a lack of leadership, not a lack of production....but I think what the leadership is concerned with is there would be a production shortfall if they actually fed the starving...

Yes I agree about Africa. IMO the world has essentially written off a lot of the countries over there. Somalia gave the US issues (Black hawk down affair), Canada (Airborne Regiment incident), Rwandan genocide, Yemen civil war, the list goes on and on. The tide of migrants flooding Europe and the west is an obvious result of the collapse of the countries. Religious and tribal wars will keep Africa down for a long time yet.

[mcfarms]

From Wikipedia
Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce), or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), sometimes called Canadian Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the American holiday of the same name, is an annual Canadian holiday, occurring on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year.



Notice it says to celebrate the harvest, well since harvest is not completed for a good portion of those that do the harvesting and since agriculture seemingly has no voice or place in the urban policy debate that we call elections anymore maybe Thanksgiving should be postponed or cancelled outright this year maybe that would get a little attention. I'm sorry everyone the harvest is not complete in the country so we cannot have thanksgiving this year no free day off urbanites ,back to work.
After all why ever should the city folks even get to celebrate a "harvest" celebration when most of them have zero connection to the land or a clue that the very thing they are "celebrating" hasn't even been completed.

[bucket]

From Wikipedia
Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce), or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), sometimes called Canadian Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the American holiday of the same name, is an annual Canadian holiday, occurring on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year.



Notice it says to celebrate the harvest, well since harvest is not completed for a good portion of those that do the harvesting and since agriculture seemingly has no voice or place in the urban policy debate that we call elections anymore maybe Thanksgiving should be postponed or cancelled outright this year maybe that would get a little attention. I'm sorry everyone the harvest is not complete in the country so we cannot have thanksgiving this year no free day off urbanites ,back to work.
After all why ever should the city folks even get to celebrate a "harvest" celebration when most of them have zero connection to the land or a clue that the very thing they are "celebrating" hasn't even been completed.

Crown workers harvest the taxpayers regularly. ..they think it should be celebrated

[tweety]

Wiki paints such a pretty picture to easily cut and paste. Never that simple.

https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-odd-complicated-history-of-canadian-thanksgiving/ https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-odd-complicated-history-of-canadian-thanksgiving/