Check out Claire Danes as Dr. Temple Grandin on the new HBO movie – Grandin. Dr. Temple Grandin has come to Ontario many times to “standing room only” events to talk with farmers and meat processing plant staff to improve farm animal welfare. This woman is truly remarkable and has helped more animals than any activist group could ever imagine, with very little fanfare. Sounds like Dane and this movie will help take the awareness of her incredible work beyond the farm and autism communities.
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Posted by OFAC on February 8th, 2010 :: Filed under
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Posted by AFAC – Promoting the humane handling of horses throughout all their life stages.
Statement of Purpose: The communication of correct information related to the Canadian horse industry to horse owners and the general public.
Visit horsewelfare.ca for information.
Posted by AFAC on January 8th, 2010 :: Filed under
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Posted by AFAC – We’ve had a few successive “soft” winters, but this year we’re starting off with what’s looking like one of the old fashioned kind. November has been overcast, blustery, quite cool, and we have nearly two feet (60 cm. plus) of snow on the level in our neck of the woods. Good sleighing – poor trucking!
Recollecting life on the homestead in northeast Saskatchewan in the early 1940’s, I remember bands of horses ranging free in winter, travelling through the yard, and on to the stubble fields or next hay meadow. In the spring, “winter lumberjacks” would become “summer stubble jumpers“, catching up and laying claim to an outfit for seeding, haying, bindering, stook threshing, perhaps hauling wood, before turning the horses loose, and themselves heading back to the winter bush camps. We had our feed stacks fenced in next to the barn, protected and handy for Mom and her wee boys to feed our own stock, horses haltered and housed, handled and hitched every day. Quite a contrast, but those running out and those stabled in all seemed to prosper! I’m recounting this because it seems we are now in an age of “free expression” on standards of equine care. “Those who think they know may be a source of some annoyance to those of you who do!”
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Posted by AFAC on January 8th, 2010 :: Filed under
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There’s a lot to think about when moving to the country. Sometimes the reality is very different than the dream although most farmers work hard to get to know their non-farm neighbours and explain to them the processes that must happen for a farm to run smoothly. We like the way this writer from the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder explores this conundrum.
The realities of rural life
The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder
Wed Oct 28 2009
Page: 3
Section: News
Byline: ANGELA DORIE;
Column: Over The Farm Gate
Over the years, the balance of those dwelling and working in rural Ontario has changed… and not necessarily for the better. Presently less than 1 per cent of the rural population are actual farmers as defined by the “Farming and Food Production Protection Act” ( FFPPA) and many conflicts arise between them and the non-farmers.
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Posted by OFAC on December 24th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Guelph Mercury
Owen Roberts
September 08, 2009
Ontario farmers – and those who represent them—are hitting the road waving their eat-local, eat-healthy flags.
Farmers are determined to capitalize on a market just waiting for reasons to support them, and to better understand where food comes from.
Provincial Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky was in Guelph late last month to announce details about the new There’s No Taste Like Home mobile educational trailer. The ministry says the trailer, outfitted with a fully equipped kitchen, will be used to promote local food through cooking demonstrations and tasting opportunities at industry, community and school events across the province.
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Posted by OFAC on September 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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By Suzanne Atkinson – AgriNews Contributor, Eastern Ontario AgriNews
June, 2008
Bart Nelson is bored. So are his cows.
On a day that could be fraught with bawls of distressed cattle, classic man vs. beast battles of brawn and lost production, boredom is a good thing.
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Posted by Admin on July 13th, 2009 :: Filed under
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