Manitoba Co-operator, 2/14/2009
A ranchers’ beef co-operative in Alberta and Saskatchewan has picked up certification from a U.S. group for meeting a long list of social and environmental standards for their product.
Food Alliance Certification Co-operative, based in Portland, Ore., has given Prairie Heritage Producers its certification for “sustainably-produced” beef. Prairie Heritage becomes the first company in Canada to meet Food Alliance standards, the U.S. group said Friday.
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Posted by FFC on July 22nd, 2009 :: Filed under
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Source:Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, 19.dec.08
Calgary, AB — FoodLogiQ, the leading provider of On Demand food safety and traceability software, today announced that they have signed an agreement with the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association to provide a value added traceability solution to its members.
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Posted by FFC on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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Safety comes first at a spanking new Kemptville cattle barn specializing in the delicate task of ‘romancing’ ornery bulls
BY TOM VAN DUSEN, Ottawa Sun, 2007.09.09
SAFETY OF THE HANDLERS
That’s got to be one of the main considerations when you’re building a new barn and pens to house cantankerous bulls at a semen extraction operation.
And safety was indeed worked into Eastern Breeders Inc.’s $800,000 “first of its kind” replacement sire barn officially opened last week.
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Posted by FFC on July 19th, 2009 :: Filed under
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By KIM HARLESS, February 26, 2007, Farmers Advance (OHIO)
The public has many misconceptions about the modern food system. Many of those misconceptions have been developed by authors with fine intentions, but a serious lack of understanding.
Unfortunately, once a so-called “fact” is in print, it is often repeated endlessly and used to build other “facts.”
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Posted by FFC on July 19th, 2009 :: Filed under
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By S.L. Davis, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
Published in the Proceedings of the Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, 2001, pp 440-450.
Introduction
Although the debate over the moral status of animals has been going on for thousands of years (Shapiro, 2000), there has been a resurgence of interest in this issue in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Posted by FFC on July 13th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Vegan
The Edmonton Journal, Wed 09 Nov 2005, By David Finlayson
EDMONTON – Being the cow boss at Canada’s largest ranch has its challenges, especially when animals are scattered over 95 kilometres one way and 50 kilometres the other.
“We’re really no different than any other cow-calf operation. Things just take a little longer,” said Stan Jacobs, who has worked at Douglas Lake Cattle Company for 18 years.
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Posted by FFC on June 10th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Source:
Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:36pm GMT
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers in Canada have developed a blood test that can diagnose fatal chronic wasting disease in elk, and believe it may provide a cheap way to screen cattle for mad cow disease.
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Posted by FFC on June 10th, 2009 :: Filed under
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Canada,
mad cow,
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