Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, 2008.05.28
Six months, 250 pounds. That’s Piggy’s destiny in life.01 At first, he’ll double his weight in a few days, then it will double in a week, then every couple of weeks, then every month. It’s incredible, isn’t it, to think that a barnyard animal is capable of growing so large, so quickly.
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Steve Buist, Hamilton Spectator, 2008.05.27
It’s 6:30 on a Sunday morning and daylight hasn’t yet cracked the horizon as I head west along Governor’s Road on the far side of Lynden. I drive for miles without passing another car, but almost every barn I pass is already lit.
No one has said it better than John Kenneth Galbraith, the renowned economist and maybe the most famous graduate of the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph.
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Posted by FFC on July 22nd, 2009 :: Filed under
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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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Posted by FFC on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under
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Vancouver Sun, 2005.08.19, Letter to the Editor
Re: Spin, not reform: The Canadian livestock industry goes for public
relations, Issues & Ideas, Aug. 18
On behalf of Canadian hog producers, I take great exception to Stephanie Brown and John Youngman’s comments regarding our industry’s efforts in animal care.
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Farmscape for February 14, 2007 (Episode 3222)
The Canadian Pork Council fears recently announced plans to phase out gestation stalls could actually hinder the welfare of swine rather than help it.
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By JOE SCHWARCZ, Montreal Gazette, 2003.04.26
I must admit I had never heard of a “boar limo.” Neither was I familiar with “Prosperm,” “pit additives” or the risks of “plug pulling.” But when you sit at a table with a bunch of pork producers, you learn quickly.
And when you find out that the lady sitting next to you can castrate a boar in 1.5 seconds, you pay attention to the conversation. You learn how hard these farmers work, how daily life centres on feed costs, pork futures, worries about bacteria, concerns about smells and insecurity about income.
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The pigsite , August 04, 2008
INDIANA – It’s no secret that the farms of today are significantly different from those of generations past.
Dr. Jeff Harker’s veterinarian practice is dedicated solely to swine.Today’s farmers depend on technology such as GPS, odor filtration systems and computer programs to efficiently and safely produce food to feed the world’s growing population says a feature in the Indy Star. But the picture of modern farming sometimes makes those outside of agriculture uneasy.
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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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Posted by FFC on July 13th, 2009 :: Filed under
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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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