PORKER
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Canadians , your group on SA is getting bigger I see
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Kato said:OT, you have said lots of times that you shouldn't have to suffer financially because of the actions of another country. Is it right then for others to suffer because of the actions of another country just because that other country is yours? :???: :???:
Multinational Packer Mafiacowzilla said:New York Mafia or Chicago Mafia? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Kato said:This has turned into one big mess for the hog producers here. There are a lot of big operations that solely sell isowean piglets south. There is nowhere to feed these pigs, no facilities, no barns, no feed. They are set up for farrowing only. Some barns are putting out a couple of thousand a week! These are not all corporate barns either. A good portion of them in this province are on Hutterite colonies, and they support a lot of people. These pigs go mainly to Iowa and have made a lot of money for American producers over the years.
There is a cull sow program here that will help a bit, but it's got strings attached too. I'm not so sure about a program to destroy piglets. :? A little extreme in my opinion. A sow's gestation is short enough that if they quit breeding today, the piglets just wouldn't be there in probably less time than it would take the government to come up with some kind of program.
OT, you have said lots of times that you shouldn't have to suffer financially because of the actions of another country. Is it right then for others to suffer because of the actions of another country just because that other country is yours? :???: :???:
fedup2 said:["If COOL becomes law in the United States, it will prohibit Canadian born hogs from being sold on retail store shelves in America. "]
I guess there is more than one part of this I don't understand. (nothing new about that!) What part of COOL prohibits Canadian born hogs from being sold here?
If it is just a matter of labeling, we have been told a thousand times on this forum that cool is a waste of time and is not going to make any difference. So why the quoted statement? :???:
PORKER said:Canadian born, USA raised and processed" on the label... because the pig label or RFID tag source was in Canada on a pig farm, COOL requires traceback to the Country of Origin and all it takes is a RFID tag and a international database.
PORKER said:I agree but the COOL requires a full audit trail of everybody from retailer back to the source of birth, in this case on some farm in Canada. The COOL law doesn't want some one in wholesale or processing slipping in pork from another nation without the consumer being shown a placard on the shelf denoting a source of origin.