Truth Farmer

I really don’t think it’s just me. The nasty things, the tyrannical things, the fearful things, and the even worse things, are coming to light at seemingly the speed of light. In just the very recent past, we have had a full scale implosion in the industrial meat sector because the general public found out about “pink slime” or “soylent pink” and just lost their marbles.

The downside is it cost 650 people jobs.

The upsides are much more numerous, and more difficult to enumerate. First is more people know and people have shown that they actually can get upset and effect the market.  The anonymous corporatized, industrialized, consolidated and concentrated meat sector got a big black eye….maybe even a broken rib. A really solid wallop. Mac D’s, Taco Bell, all the grocery stores, and even the USDA heard the people when they said, “We will not be fed garbage and told that it is “leanly textured fine beef”.

It’s really funny to see the propagandists still trying to pump pink slime at us. They don’t get that no means no.

Then, the illustrious USDA, ever mindful of the US Constitution and Tax Payer’s dollars, announces they are offering a giant contract for data mining the internet for people who my be in violation of the AWA or the HPA. That means you may be selling pets without a license or moving horses without the proper documents.

The USDA, who was dubbed “the people’s department” is really bringing the communistic overtones of their nick name into high relief. Yes, they are Uncle Sam Destroying Agriculture, and I am sure they will be paying someone to read my comments about them as well. At any rate, you can read the offer that is open to anyone, particularly smaller businesses, right here.

Then, the EPA, the same intelligence agency that decided to regulate milk like oil, is expanding their definitions and control of “waters of the United States”. The rule is being finalized now.

Then, in the happiest news of the day, farmers in Canada have grown a back bone and formed the “Farmers Peace Corps”. They removed forty one extremely rare sheep that the Canadian CFIA  had slated for destruction into protective custody!

Here is a short synapses, of the issue. Two years ago, a sheep that Montana Jones had sold three years earlier tested positive for scrapies. The CFIA put Jones under quarantine in 2009. Now they have decided the sheep she has must be killed. The Farmers Peace Corps has stepped in and taken the sheep away. The story is growing and highly interesting. I intend to dig into this quite a bit.

Like I said, there is a lot going on. And in the meantime, spring has arrived and the garden will not plant itself.