BY TOBI COHEN, OTTAWA SUN, 2003.06.22
Pulling up to Luc and Louise Secours’ Bainsville farm one would never guess it was home to as many as 6,000 piglets at any given time.
It’s located on a large chunk of property a kilometre or so east of their
family farm home which stands perched atop a small hill next door to their chicken coop along Concession 2 in tiny South Glengarry town.
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BY MARY-ANN HENDRIKX, STRATHROY; The London Free Press, 10 Jun 2003
Dear Editor,
As a pork producer, I am ticked at the amount of misinformation and negativity that surrounds any news of my industry. Pigs had absolutely nothing to do with the Walkerton tragedy, yet people continue to link the two, and papers continue to print these quotes as if they have truth to them.
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LUKE HENDRY, Belleville INTELLIGENCER, August 25, 2008
Anyone who’s pessimistic about the future of farming hasn’t been here
As the Shannonville World’s Fair entered its second of three days, children and their calves were showing their stuff in the Future Farmers Calf Show.
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Jennifer Bain, Toronto Star, 2007.04.04
The real deal about veal; The Ontario Veal Association president opens her barn for a tour, encouraging butchers, supermarkets, chefs and consumers to learn more about this lean red meat
Ontario farmers want you to know how they do – and don’t – produce veal.
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An agri-food spin on summer camps help prepare the future leaders of Canada’s agriculture sector
By OWEN ROBERTS, Guelph Mercury, July 30, 2007
The University of Guelph campus is alive this summer with camps and kids making great use of the facilities during the school’s quiet time, and getting a taste of what it would be like to be a student here.
The agricultural community has a special vested interest in having pre-university students on campus early and often, to excite them about joining the ranks of the storied Ontario Agricultural College “Aggies,” who time and again assume leadership positions in Canada’s vital and growing agri-food sector.
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BRENT DAVIS, The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo), 08 Sep 2007
On a sprawling farm just west of Kitchener, eight pairs of young hands are carrying on a family tradition that began more than 150 years ago.
From the youngest — Holly, 4 — to the oldest — Emily, 14 — each of the Shantz children has a role to play in a unique environment that serves alternately as a place of business, an outdoor classroom and home sweet home.
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Ron Eade, The Ottawa Citizen, 2006.09.06
A distressed mother sent me a plea for help the other day after discovering her 22-year-old daughter on the Internet, reading radical websites posted by animal rights activists.
As you may expect, the vitriolic hyberbole convinced her daughter to immediately stop eating meat. She, in turn, tried to convert her mother.
This misplaced sense of moral rectitude is largely due to a tsunami of misinformation that has overwhelmed our pop culture in matters concerning food. (No surprise, really, considering that a scant two per cent of Canadians today are farmers compared to more than half the population a century ago.)
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By Owen Roberts, Guelph Mercury, June 02, 2008
When it comes to what’s called broiler chickens, the ones that are processed into food, every day counts. In just five-ish weeks, they hatch from eggs, grow and find their way to our dinner plates. That brief time period is fascinating from a nutrition perspective, because a bird must grow up incredibly fast and stay extremely healthy to be ready for marketing in about 32 days.
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By Steve Buist, The Hamilton Spectator, 2008.05.26
It’s Nov. 22. The season’s first glaze of ice has formed on the roadside ponds that line Highway 24 north of St. George.
Piggy was born today at 2:42 p.m.
He weighed just 900 grams. That’s two pounds — about the same as three good-sized pork chops, or a tub of margarine.
Piggy doesn’t know it, of course, but at 2:42, the clock started ticking toward his last, inevitable trip down the highway to the slaughterhouse.
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By Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, 05.24.2008; Chapter 1
I’ve never owned a living creature that I intended to eat. That hardly makes me unique in this country. An overwhelming majority of Canadians have no direct connection with the front end of the farm-to-table food chain.
Things were different 80 years ago. In those days, more than one-third of the country’s workers were employed in agriculture.
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