Canadian Beef Cattle Code

[burnt]

Canadian ranchers/cattlemen - better have a look here and see what the new code of practice includes. If accepted as written, you will be in violation if you are wintering pairs licking snow only, if I'm reading it right. This does not affect me, but there was discussion a while ago on here about this very thing.

I might be paranoid, but I see this kind of thing as a tool that the SPCAs will use to hang us. You either know how to raise cattle or you don't. And having a detailed code like this will do nothing to stop those who are not inclined to manage their cattle well anyway.

As always, the devil is in the details.

A written code has little impact on good producers or bad producers. It does, however, become a weapon in the hands of the misguided, while offering little protection to those who might appeal to it for defense.

http://www.nfacc.ca/resources/codes-of-practice/beef-cattle/Draft_Beef_Code_Dec_2012.pdf

 

[PureCountry]

One paragraph says snow is acceptable, the next paragraph says it's only acceptable for non-lactating cows. What a joke this waste of paper is. Some of the stuff in there is obviously coming from activists targeting feedlots, some of it makes sense, but very little.

 

[leanin' H]

Just one more reason, we as ranchers, have to stand together. These do gooder operations, regardless which side of the border they call home, are hell bent on painting us into a corner we will never get out of. Remember, what sounds small and harmless at first is just the opening volley of the true agenda. DRIVING AGRICULTURE, AND ESPECIALLY MEAT PRODUCTION, INTO EXTINCTION.

 

[nortexsook]

Neville Chamberlain comes to mind.

Study your history books, ranchers......