Beef Farmers of Ontario (formerly Ontario Cattlemens Association) is totally producer funded by check-off fees on every animal sold in Ontario. Logic would suggest they are to represent the very people those check-off fees are collected from. Then why are they now in bed with the OSPCA with some sort of joint partnership formed and spouting off about myths and facts?
Here is a prime example/story of the true facts and how a couple was persecuted by the OSPCA
No different in Alberta.
ReplyDeleteMyth: Cattlemen Associations represent the interests of cattlemen.
Fact: the average cattleman isn't smart enough to know that his representatives are selling him down the river - so ***k him.
When an organization spends most of it's time bootlicking for a government welfare program..... ah... Risk Management program, all sorts of interesting partnerships are formed.You want the money?Here's what you do. Never mind that the province is broke or that a whole new group of government dependents is being produced for taxpayers to support, they're entitled to their "fair" share.
ReplyDeleteShrug. Who cares. After going through our fight with the wineries and the Ontario Liberals I can tell you for sure that no farm organization and very few farmers give a s*** about anything that matters until it is affecting them personally. By then it is too late.
ReplyDeleteWhen oh when are people ever going to learn that "pleasing your enemies doesn't make them your friends"? Words to live by I tell ya....
ReplyDeleteI suggest anyone reading this posting to forward it on to anyone they know selling cattle/involved in the cattle industry in Ontario so they at least know how they are being sold down the river.
Myth: Inspectors are well trained.
Fact: In a recent conversation with a local cattle trucker, he tells me that an inspector approached him at the sales barn delivering his load asking for the number of cattle on board....and the dimensions of his trailer....8X24 he said....the inspector wanted to know it that was feet or inches.