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Farmers Need Not Fear Food Safety Act

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The grain can keep growing, the hens can continue laying and that pot of jam on the stove can keep bubbling away if the proposed Food Safety Act becomes law. Farmers raising grain and livestock for sale through conventional channels will not be considered “food premises” by the act, which has received first reading in
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Growing Forward To Come First

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Livestock producers will have to wait until at least April 1 to find out whether the federal and provincial governments will provide any additional funding help. Speaking after a Feb. 9 meeting with his provincial counterparts, Agricul ture Minister Gerry Ritz said the two levels of government decided to complete the necessary agreements to have
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Reframe Animal Rights Debate, Producers Told

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Livestock producers under attack from animal welfare activists should fight fire with fire by appealing to people’s emotions, says a food industry communications strategist. Activists focus on feelings to get people angry about alleged animal abuse. So farmers should counter with emotional arguments based on consumers’ self-interest, Dan Murphy said. Murphy, an American meat industry
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Give Us The Tax Break And No One Gets Hurt

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DAVE BEDARD It’s hard not to sympathize with the folks in the province’s general farm organization as it lobbies on farmers’ behalf. Given all the “wedge issues” in farm policy, when you strive to stake out a position that a majority of farmers can support, the positions you adopt won’t generally lend themselves to a
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CFIA under fire over plant and meat inspection

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“The agency lacks an effective, integrated risk-management approach to plant and plant product imports.” – Sheila Fraser, Auditor General Last week was a rough one for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency with the auditor general criticizing it and a group of veterinarians suing it. Auditor General Sheila Fraser released a report faulting the way CFIA
News, Other livestock

Salmonella outbreak may spur U. S. food safety

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The latest U. S. salmonella outbreak could spur food safety reform in the U. S. Congress, but the process will be slow and consumers will remain at risk until the shattered regulatory regime can be fixed. “Congress is poised to take early action on food safety legislation,” said Caroline Smith DeWall, a director of food
Cereals, Opinion

LETTERS – for Feb. 5, 2009

New legislation has far-reaching implications Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk has recently announced that under the new Food Safety Act all food premises in the province of Manitoba will have to be licensed. She wants to start with livestock and move her way down to fruits and veggies. I have read these
Livestock, News

Premises ID for food safety to move forward

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Another building block toward a national livestock traceability system has fallen into place with the announcement of a premises identification system for Manitoba. The province will spend $400,000 on a database to pinpoint and register all Manitoba farms that produce livestock by geographic location. The premises identification database will tie into livestock ID systems, which
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KAP demands tax credits for food safety

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“It can get very expensive.” – Ian Wishart, KAP Manitoba farmers want a tax reward for providing consumers with safe, wholesome food. Keystone Agricultural Producers delegates at their annual meeting passed a resolution demanding producers receive income tax credits for carrying out on-farm food safety programs. The credits could be in the form of income

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