If I Ever See This Knuckle Dragging Neanderthal I would Kick Him In the Nuts

[kenchorney]

Cool, i wish i knew the name of every cow & pig i ate.Vegans are almost as annoying as jehova's witness's(at least vegans don't go door to door).Generally speaking,i would guess most folks could care less about the 'facts' of eating meat(be it rat, cow,cat or pig) I love moose & elk,but i don't preach eating meat.If folks wanna be a vegan, that's fine(i care about someone being a vegan,as much as i care about the Kardashian's or Paris Hilton)
Generally i don't choose my sp's on there own personnel beliefs(that's why i pay them, so i don't have to listen about there personnel lives) Life is so much easier that way:nod:
Oh! you know which pig that i would have liked to have eaten? Arnold off green acres!ound:

Very well put, you certainly don't see meat eaters jumping up on a soap box and ranting on and on about why vegans are evil.

 

[luvsdaty]

Very well put, you certainly don't see meat eaters jumping up on a soap box and ranting on and on about why vegans are evil.

There not evil,just annoying:fear:

 

[asdfg1218]

It's not twisted. It's absurd.


We're not talking about personal beliefs, we're talking about facts. Sorry but that is a ridiculous analogy.


We all know that in parts of Asia, people eat dogs and cats. Is it more twisted than eating chickens, pigs or cows?

If so, Why?

If not....why not?

Either it's all perfectly acceptable, normal and moral. Or none of it is. Why would one be considered any different? Defending eating chicken, cows and pigs is defending eating cats, dogs, horses and rats. Why would it not be the same?



And that's manipulative, condescending and disingenuous:





If you choose which sp to see based on their opinions (or lack of) being identical to yours, please don't assume it's what everyone does and please don't assume we're just too stupid to realize this so you have to tell us, as well as shame us for having done something so outrageous, such as giving our opinion on an unpopular topic.. so we can "behave".

Personally, I don't care if people want to kill animals and eat them. I love eating meat and do it every day. My point was that people have strong views about this topic, so why stir the pot with "I assume you're vegetarian? etc etc". It's probably the stupidest, most commonly used response to anyone objecting to the killing of animals.
I never said that I or anyone else will choose to see an SP based on her opinion being "identical" to mine so please don't put words in my mouth. Also, your accusation that I was trying to shame her is a little strong, don't you think?

 

[Very Veronica]

Eh i prefer not to fuck morons & fyi you misquoted me.

sidebar: few vegetarians are vegans

'One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.' - Mahatma Gandhi

Why start a debate like this? You're basically pissing off half of your potential client pool. Why not state your views on abortion while you're at it?
It's different because people have, and are entitled to their own opinions and beliefs. It is not "twisted thinking". By your twisted logic, since it's generally accepted to go to the grocery store and buy chicken to eat, I could kill your dog and eat it too? Same thing right? Or is that twisted?

 

[asdfg1218]

Eh i prefer not to fuck morons

lol oh man it would be too easy... I'll just keep my mouth shut and leave this thread, but talk about an alley oop! lol

 

[TONY LEONE]

How this thread got turned into a vegan vs.carnivore war is funny! Eat wht u like youre not changing anyones prefrences or choices...so when is buddy gunna kick Lesnar in the nuts? I for one wanna see him try this! (on pay per view only) lol

 

[luvsdaty]

Meat curtains to:eyebrows:

 

[uncleg]

My turn again..................

 

[storm rider]

Cool, i wish i knew the name of every cow & pig i ate.Vegans are almost as annoying as jehova's witness's(at least vegans don't go door to door).Generally speaking,i would guess most folks could care less about the 'facts' of eating meat(be it rat, cow,cat or pig) I love moose & elk,but i don't preach eating meat.If folks wanna be a vegan, that's fine(i care about someone being a vegan,as much as i care about the Kardashian's or Paris Hilton)
Generally i don't choose my sp's on there own personnel beliefs(that's why i pay them, so i don't have to listen about there personnel lives) Life is so much easier that way:nod:
Oh! you know which pig that i would have liked to have eaten? Arnold off green acres!ound:

Well said and I totally agree....WTF is with vegans that feel they have to cram their view down your throat?...if I had them doing the jehova's witness thing of knocking on my door and trying to convert me I swear I would splash them with a bucket of water.

SR

 

[InnocentBoy]

How much to take one of you fine ladies on a hunting trip?
From all the destruction of the forests I see in Bijou's vids the best thing you can do is drive your big suv's around and pump the air full of c02. Plants thrive on c02 but wait I thought thats what we were paying carbon taxes for to make less c02 for the plants? :fear:

 

[luvsdaty]

I get a kick outta those 'black death' logging videos. I see the 'black hole' every year on my way to Ucluelet(the one they use to show on the news when they where protesting Clayoquot sound/Meares island,it looks pretty green now. Same as most of Ukee,it use to look like a moonscape,25 yrs later it looks pretty good.

 

[Miss*Bijou]

LOL

Well said and I totally agree....WTF is with vegans that feel they have to cram their view down your throat?...if I had them doing the jehova's witness thing of knocking on my door and trying to convert me I swear I would splash them with a bucket of water.

SR

Cool, i wish i knew the name of every cow & pig i ate.Vegans are almost as annoying as jehova's witness's(at least vegans don't go door to door)Generally speaking,i would guess most folks could care less about the 'facts' of eating meat(be it rat, cow,cat or pig) I love moose & elk,but i don't preach eating meat.If folks wanna be a vegan, that's fine(i care about someone being a vegan,as much as i care about the Kardashian's or Paris Hilton)
Generally i don't choose my sp's on there own personnel beliefs(that's why i pay them, so i don't have to listen about there personnel lives) Life is so much easier that way
Oh! you know which pig that i would have liked to have eaten? Arnold off green acres!

Very well put, you certainly don't see meat eaters jumping up on a soap box and ranting on and on about why vegans are evil.

There not evil,just annoying

And what would meat eaters be jumping on a soap box to rant about? The virtues of eating animals that were abused for the purpose of becoming meat filled with antibiotics (and a list of potentially life threatening bacteria...among other things)?

Good luck with that.

Are you really that thick? No one's trying to convert you, people are trying to inform you. Novel concept to some of you apparently. Get this: Some people actually appreciate learning things once in a while and think of knowledge as a good thing - and not as something suspicious, dangerous or out to get (convert) you............ OMG!


FFS. Hello? Not like evil (annoying) vegans made it all up to convert you and make your little live miserable. Wake the hell up. What's fucked up about it all is precisely because it NOT made up and it's real. Acknowledging how fucked up and disgusting factory farming has nothing to do with being vegan, vegetarian or omnivore. Regardless of which category you fall into, there should be absolutely no doubt as to how wrong and unacceptable it is. There isn't a normal human being (ie not sociopath) who can find any sort of argument, reason and facts to justify that kind of evil. Period.


But if you guy could get over yourselves and your self entitlement for two minutes and stop framing this as a vegan/vegetarian vs. manly-meat-eating-macho-man issue, which TOTALLY defeats the purpose and detracts from the REAL issue of the animals that are victims of that demented, violent system - which you are responsible for supporting, for as long as you continue to avoid the topic and insist on eating your diseased meat that's a product of that sick industry. Talk about wasting time here - just because of ego.

You guys do realize I've never once said I was vegan. (Actually I've said in the past that I wasn't there yet and I do still eat dairy products and eggs occasionally.) The only difference between myself and you guys, I guess, is that I don't think it's my personal mission to defend and justify horrible things just because it's inconvenient? I also realize it's 100 times better to be informed and in touch with reality even if you might annoy those who prefer to stay dumb.


I'm not on any soap box and I'm not in any way perfect or where I'd like to be yet. I doubt any one can be perfect or that it even is the point. I know there are lots of people who are receptive to the facts and come up with a strategy that works for them and that doesn't mean every single one of them making the commitment to being 100% vegan. That's not the point but clearly this has gone right over your heads. Like I said in an earlier post, if there was nothing to it, neither one of you would waste any energy or time trying to defend it.


This kind of attitude is really like a 5 year old covering his ears with his hands and screaming I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I CAN'T HEAR YOU, LALALALALA.

Uh. Ok? Hm. Way to go. You can't hear me. :thumb:

The requirement for acknowledging reality isn't that one be vegan or vegetarian - all it takes is willingness to use one's brain even if the process is uncomfortable or inconvenient. This obstination to make it into some sort of unfair attack on meat eaters is really pretty stupid. Are you expecting to change reality and the world around you by shear denial and repetition of a few wishful affirmations? If you keep repeating it, it will eventually become true? I mean, really. I have to be careful how I word this so I don't get an infraction but that is some pretty poor reasoning and the brain is a terrible waste.


I mean, seriously, take the information and do what you want with it but don't embarrass yourselves by pretending it's not a serious issue but just a petty attack on you. (Boohoohoo!) Grow the hell up and if you wont get your head out of your ass, find somewhere out of the way so you don't waste everyone else's time while you're clowning around. I hate to break it to you but most meat eaters don't have this problem you seem to have with grasping the real implications and getting over themselves. Maybe you might want to give it a try one of these days. Or not.


But anyway, that's really as much time as I'm willing to waste by responding to this kind of foolishness and incompetence.

YUM!

B.C. poultry industry warned to halt use of antibiotic:
Level of drug-resistant bacteria spikes in grocery-store chicken

YUM!

Hog industry doesn't take pigs' care seriously: judge

" A Manitoba judge has taken aim at the provincial hog industry, suggesting there may be a widespread culture of putting profits over the humane treatment of pigs.

The issue was placed in the public domain Wednesday at the sentencing hearing for a truck driver convicted of violating the Health of Animals Act. Provincial court Judge Fred Sandhu said the facts of the case "turned the stomach" and may be symptomatic of a greater problem in Manitoba.

"The act only speaks to death. The suffering part -- I'm not sure that's something the industry is all that concerned about," Sandhu said. "These are such highly avoidable situations. Is the attitude they're going to be dead in three hours anyways so what does it matter?"

.... "

MEH.

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[vancity_cowboy]

^^ :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: ^^

Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals.

...also planners - liberals LOVE to plan...

 

[shedevil]

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society."
-Arthur Conan Doyle​

So this Lesnar idiot shot a deer and just took the head. It is all the same to me. It's wasteless consumption and that's what we do best. I don't see how this "meat" issue even got into this discussion. Eating meat is very much a part of our culture and many people will not jump out and decide to make helthy choices for themsleves.

I do a lot "welfare" work: Making light of the factory behind the farm. This is mostly the type of volunteer work that I do. Eat less meat of better quality and support local farmers. Not Maple Leaf. I do promote vegetarian and vegan lilfestyles. I'm not a jehovah nut job either. Actually, the animal group(s) that I belong to aren't run by vegan nut jobs on soapboxes. IMO, when slavery was abolished, people just got smart and started to enslave animals instead.

People haven't been eating the mass amounts of meat that we do in present day for thousands of years. Back then you ate meat when you caught an animal and it wasn't a staple in your diet. It also wasn't loaded with parasites, antibiotics and growth hormones. They didn't eat corn or live knee deep in shit on a feed lot either.

SD

 

[luvsdaty]

For those that don't know about history ... Here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1 . Liberals
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement...

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. They became known as girlie-men. Some note worthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass for obvious reasons.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Miller. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks,construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively.

Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America .. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history:

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above;

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off.
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FREE TIBET

:clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::clap2::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb: Venison stew for dinner tonight:thumb:

 

[the virgin gary]

IMO, when slavery was abolished, people just got smart and started to enslave animals instead.

You just compared slavery to chickens...

there has been a failure on the internets...

 

[uncleg]

You just compared slavery to chickens...

there has been a failure on the internets...

 

[myselftheother]

So this Lesnar idiot shot a deer and just took the head. It is all the same to me. It's wasteless consumption and that's what we do best. I don't see how this "meat" issue even got into this discussion. Eating meat is very much a part of our culture and many people will not jump out and decide to make helthy choices for themsleves.

I do a lot "welfare" work: Making light of the factory behind the farm. This is mostly the type of volunteer work that I do. Eat less meat of better quality and support local farmers. Not Maple Leaf. I do promote vegetarian and vegan lilfestyles. I'm not a jehovah nut job either. Actually, the animal group(s) that I belong to aren't run by vegan nut jobs on soapboxes. IMO, when slavery was abolished, people just got smart and started to enslave animals instead.

People haven't been eating the mass amounts of meat that we do in present day for thousands of years. Back then you ate meat when you caught an animal and it wasn't a staple in your diet. It also wasn't loaded with parasites, antibiotics and growth hormones. They didn't eat corn or live knee deep in shit on a feed lot either.

SD

Did you even read what you posted? First of all, what you said about eat less quality meat and support those who provide less quality meat, a substandard product? Are you out of your mind? Why would I support a local farmer who provides a substandard product, when I can go to someone or somewhere for a higher quality of meat, poultry or fish? I support local produce, and meat farmers, local retailers like the local butcher, but I don't settle for lesser quality meat.

Secondly...next point...slavery. When slavery was abolished, people just didn;t start enslaving animals instead of people. Hogwash. Humans were already using animals to run farms, plow fields, carry goods to town, travel from community to community. That's been going on for thousands of years, using horses, oxen, donkeys and dogs to push pull or drag everything, as well as using humans. Chickens, pigs, ducks....not so much. Can't pull a chariot with a team of chickens, which would be pretty weird and would have your centurion pals laughing at you..

Thirdly....while meat does have growth hormone in it, and antibiotics are used, few parasites are allowed by meat inspectors, if any, and any antibiotics used must not be present in the meat of the animal at time of slaughter. Back in the old days, you had to cook your pork really well to make sure ring worm, and other parasitic organisms or ytou would suffer serious if not fatal problems....for example it was led to be believed that Mozart died of pork chops not cooked properly..

Meat is essential for diet. I personally can't live without animal protein...and I love it. Love my veggies, but a nice steak once a week, chicken, smoked pork, pulled pork sanwiches...beef brisket smoked for 16 hours.....mmmm brisket...time for lunch!!

 

[Asianwomanlover]

Myselftheother, I believe what shedevil meant was "eat less meat, but of better quality".

 

[Miss*Bijou]

Thirdly....while meat does have growth hormone in it, and antibiotics are used, few parasites are allowed by meat inspectors, if any, and any antibiotics used must not be present in the meat of the animal at time of slaughter. Back in the old days, you had to cook your pork really well to make sure ring worm, and other parasitic organisms or ytou would suffer serious if not fatal problems....for example it was led to be believed that Mozart died of pork chops not cooked properly..

Meat is essential for diet. I personally can't live without animal protein...and I love it. Love my veggies, but a nice steak once a week, chicken, smoked pork, pulled pork sanwiches...beef brisket smoked for 16 hours.....mmmm brisket...time for lunch!!

Meat is not essential and you personally won't live without animal protein, which is accurate, as opposed to "can't live without" which is not true. You love it and you won't - those are two different things altogether.


Second, what are you smoking and that must be some good shit!

"few parasites are allowed by meat inspectors, if any" and "any antibiotics used must not be present in the meat of the animal at time of slaughter"


No offense but obviously you live in la-la-land. Meat inspectors don't test all the meat, not even close. They're notoriously understaffed and barely able to spend an hour at any given slaughterhouse. The task of meat inspection is essentially performed by the companies themselves; how reassuring is that! As for antibiotics...hello? Not be present in the meat? It sure as hell is present in the meat. At slaughter AND at meal time. Cooked or not, it's all there and it's all legal. You really should look into this because you clearly don't realize what's present in your meat...and allowed to be in there.

Months before the tainted meat from the Maple Leaf Plant in the Toronto area began claiming lives, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency adopted a new policy that meat inspectors now say removed clear language that required companies to report any positive listeria tests directly to inspectors.

CFIA inspectors have told the CBC and the Toronto Star that on April 1, they essentially became auditors of the companies' paperwork, which is part of the compliance verification system. CVS details the measures the country's 198 meat processing plants must adopt to ensure they're operating safely.

"Prior to April 1, [any positive listeria tests] would have had to have been, not only brought to the inspector's attention, but the inspector would have been involved in overseeing the cleanup," said Bob Kingston, head of the union representing CFIA inspectors.

"The CFIA would have been doing their own testing to validate the success of the cleanup. But after April 1, with the changes they brought in, none of that happened. They weren't required to bring their cleanup activities to the inspector's attention, [and] they wouldn't have been required to bring a failed cleanup attempt to the inspector's attention, or repeated positives."

Inspectors said had the alarm bells been sounded earlier, lives could have been saved.

"Bells and whistles would have been sounding if [Maple Leaf officials] had to report positive test findings to an inspector," said one Toronto area CFIA inspector who spoke to the CBC and the Star on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

"We might not have had anybody dead [if company officials were still obligated to report positive listeria findings]. It's terrible. My dad eats this stuff all the time. I eat it," the inspector said.


more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2008/10/05/listeria-inspections.html

Some of you just keep posting completely false information and forcing others to come up with the accurate info. I mean, come on guys. I've actually posted this before too:

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2011/superbugsinthesupermarket/labtest.html

We conducted a test, in collaboration with Radio-Canada's food show l'Epicerie, of 100 retail chicken samples from across Canada. The tests were conducted at a certified analytical laboratory in Canada.

The test was done in two stages: first the chicken samples were analyzed for isolates of salmonella, e-coli and campylobacter. Secondly, those isolates were then tested against a panel of 12 antibiotics (Amoxycillin, Ampicillin, Ceftiofur, Enrofloxacin, Erythromycin, Gentamycin, Spectinomycin, Sulphamethoxazole, Sulphamethoxazole-Trimethroprim, Tetracycline, Ciprofloxacin, Acide nalidixique) to determine levels of resistance of those microbes to these antibiotics.

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/webextras/coffee_shops/types_foodborne.html?coffee_shops


watch it!

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2011/superbugsinthesupermarket/

According to recent Canadian population studies, Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada estimate that 11-13 million cases of food borne illness occur each year.

http://www.befoodsafe.ca/en-home.asp

Winnipeg – Ottawa plans to dump inspection of some meat plants on the Manitoba government in a move that will expose unwitting Manitoba consumers to heightened risk of eating contaminated meat products, according to the Agriculture Union – PSAC, which represents federal food safety inspectors.

After providing meat safety inspection service for decades, the union has been advised by Canadian Food Inspection Agency this arrangement federal inspectors will no longer check the 28 meat plants that produce for Manitoba consumers exclusively for E. coli, listeria, salmonella and other contaminants that can have deadly consequences when eaten.

more: http://www.foodsafetyfirst.ca/2011/08/10/ottawa-dumps-meat-inspection-on-manitoba/

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Ottawa is abandoning inspection of meat produced for local citizens in BC, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

These cuts are all about money. To save a few bucks, the federal government is prepared to entrench a two-tiered meat safety system in which some Canadians enjoy higher standards while others suffer higher risk.

more: http://www.foodsafetyfirst.ca/leaving-town/

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Ottawa (June 21, 2011) — Canadian Food Inspection Agency President Carole Swan is stepping down at the end of June, a full year ahead of the end of her appointment.

“We wish Carole well. She had a tough job to do, made more difficult by chronic under funding, a reality that has prevented the CFIA from implementing all of the recommendations made by Sheila Weatherill to prevent another widespread food borne illness like the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis outbreak,” said Bob Kingston, President of the Agriculture Union – PSAC which represents federal food inspectors.

Swan was appointed President of the CFIA on June 4, 2007 at the pleasure of the government for a term of five years.

“Appointing a new President of the CFIA will not address the inspector shortage or the other resources challenges that continue to plague the food safety system in Canada. We hope the new President of the CFIA will make it clear to the government that significant shortcomings in the food safety system in Canada will remain until sufficient safety and inspection resources are invested,” Kingston said.


more: http://www.foodsafetyfirst.ca/2011/06/21/carole-swan-resigns/


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Food safety policy-making at the national level is largely conducted behind closed doors, shrouded in secrecy and driven by a cost-cutting agenda.

The move toward industry self-policing has been done quietly by Ottawa politicians, bureaucrats and food company executives who fear news of these changes would spark a public backlash.

http://www.foodsafetyfirst.ca/secret-documents/

Even just in my last post I included the title of a recent article concerning BC poultry contamination alert and included a link. Wouldn't it make sense to at least take a look before posting misinformed beliefs that are far from the real facts? Sorry I don't mean to dump on you, it's just that throughout the entire thread people have just continued to make comments without even bothering to verify if what they were saying and what they believed was actually true and I find this very frustrating. How does anyone expect to learn anything in life if they're not interested in finding the facts?



I'm starting to think people are purposely wanting to keep pretending they have no idea what I and others are talking about. Why is that? This isn't some obscure conspiracy theory based on isolated examples and allegations. This is all very well documented, even in the mainstream media report on most of these things. Many recent, recommended and popular books and documentaries cover all of these things in detail. Obviously some people have no interested in taking the time to read such books or watch the docs (unfortunate) but I would have assumed that you would have at least heard of it through others discussing it or whatever else..? Unless you live under a rock I can't imagine how you would manage to not have heard about these things?

Issues

Canada’s food safety regulator – the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) – lacks the inspection resources to ensure food processors and importers are following the rules that protect Canadians from bad food.

In response to the inspection deficit, the Federal Government has given more responsibility to the food industry to police its own safety practices with less direct supervision from government inspectors.

The inspection deficit can be found throughout the Canadian food processing industry, including meat, chicken, fish and egg processing facilities, as well as imported food.

Government inspectors now spend less time on direct, hands-on inspection and more time reviewing reports and test results companies produce themselves. In many cases, the workload of inspectors is so heavy they cannot possibly verify companies are following the safety rules.

Many believe these changes led to the Maple Leaf Foods tragedy that left 22 dead and dozen more ill in the summer of 2008, victims of tainted Maple Leaf cold cuts.

Even though the federal government has announced its intention to make new investments in food safety and hire more inspectors, the food inspection system overall remains woefully and dangerously short staffed.

For example, there are only two consumer protection inspectors covering all retails food stores in the entire City of Toronto! And the inspection programs for fish processing and meat slaughter are almost as short staffed, posing real and significant public health risks.

http://www.foodsafetyfirst.ca/the-issues/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/foodsafety/