Comments on: Canada Aids Hog Farmers – By Having Them Kill Their Pigs

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:27:35 +0000

Hi Charlotte,
All in the name of keeping the pig industry afloat and profitable. How sad.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:51:57 +0000

They not only PAID the farmers to kill the Boers and sows BUT they made them all sign a 3 year contract not to produce any animals(pigs) during this time.

By: Lane

Lane — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:06:54 +0000

Hi Harmony,
Yes, this is something Jane and I talk about on occasion. Especially with the overall rise in food prices, and the shortages that are expected to grow. We’re concerned that we (the wealthy nations of the world) will be further targeted by terrorism. We will be inconvenienced by the food shortages. Other countries will suffer famine and death.
Obviously, something needs to be changed.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:26:15 +0000

This is just one more marketing board’s overpaid lobbyists spending our money to inflate the perpetual pension plans of the elite on the backs of the rest.
Who are the real pigs at the trough?
We need to talk less and do more about sustainability.

An artificial economy isn’t an economy.
Is this lazy fair?
or laissez faire?

A QUESTION: If your third world children were starving to death and ‘broken’ from land mines and cluser bombs and you saw this in the papers. Along with all the other waste and razing of the planet by corporatist buffoons in NA…would you put your children out of their misery by strapping on dynamite to send them to heaven, in one last grand effort to relieve their pain and suffering and have them hailed as exorcists of the axis of evil?

Who are the terrorists?
Who is the enemy?
We are sadly the catalysts of all that befalls us, wittingly or unwittingly.

SPEAK OUT….
before the cluster bombs come home to roost and nobody need be paid to reduce the porcine bloat.

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:05:02 +0000

Mindy / Sue — yes it’s depressing. The seal hunt is simply barbaric. I understand (but strongly disagree with) the Canadian government’s efforts to support their hog farmers. But I’m overwhelmed by the sense of WASTE here.

Hi Alex, There was an interesting article in December’s Economist — something about the end of cheap food (it was the cover story). As the cost of grain spirals out of control, feed costs will rise therefore meat prices can only follow. (Barring government subsidies to cattle farmers.) I would guess that this economic impact might move some omnivores to eat more vegetarian meals. Baby steps.

Hi Elaine, I’m guessing the Canadian government doesn’t want the pigs to be turned into foodstuffs for economic reasons. The marketplace would have a supply of pork products, so farmers’ wouldn’t command as good a price for the meat they would be trying to sell… vicious circle here. But the Canadian government could process the pork products and send them overseas thereby not interfering with their economy and providing relief to countries struggling with the 120% increase in the rise in grain prices.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:42:49 +0000

Yup, don’t feed starving people with those pig corpses, instead artificially inflate the price of pork. Argh! The meat and dairy industries don’t care about people OR animals.

By: Sue H

Sue H — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:04:23 +0000

How sad…

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:48:35 +0000

How stunned would people be if they were force to recognize the true cost of the meat they consume.

Free from these subsidies, the environmental impacts, the unjust labor practices, etc., if allowed to be reflected in the cost of the meat, would be profound I believe.

The pure immorality of these very institutions move us, however, for the prejudiced out there, perhaps the stark reality of the economic harms would move all those people who act on nothing more than desire or passion (i.e., “I just like the taste of flesh).

By: mindy

mindy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:27:06 +0000

This makes me angry – both the seal hunt and this senseless killing of all these pigs. Although, like you, I believe all killing of animals for food is unnecessary and therefore senseless. So depressing….