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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-01-22, Page 9• Federal ban on red deer TORONTO Hank Brand of Concession 5 in Stephen township has been in the cattle business for 28 -years and on January' 7 of this year for the first time one of his Holstein cows gave birth to • triplet calves. Hank and his wife Betty are shown here with the three new Belgian Blue Cross calves. They.come from a combination of a Red Holstein cow and a Belgian Blue buil. Jaycees seek nominations for outstanding young farmers MITCHELL - The Ontario Great Lake, Region Junior Chamber' Jaycees are seckm nomination, tor their annual Outstantin-_ Yours* • Farmers recognition program • Nominees should be: b.twccn furs ages of 121 and 391; he tarot op,:!., tors: and derive a minimum of L - thirds of their income from lata - ing. They will be judged on: progre., in agriculture; soil, water.atta ener- gy conservation practices; crop and livestock production history; finan- cial and management practices; -and community involvement. Any indi- viof ganizauon can male a noir matron. - Nomination forms atidior infor- mation can be obtained. from your !oval Jaycee unit sm. Federation of Agnculture representative. Deadlines: -Nominees names are to be submitted before February 1. 1992, completed nomination forms -and five pictures of the farthing op- erations arc required by March 21, 1992. The Great Lakes Region honour- ee will be announced at a banquet to be held at the Crystal Palace, in Mitchell, Ontario, on Saturday. April 25, 1992. Outstanding Young Farmers is a national program of the Canadian Junior Chamber/Jaycees. The pur- pose of the program is to foster ur- ban -rural relations and recognize•in_ individual farmers'.achievenoienis: _ Each of Canada's. eight regional honourees are then invited to the national competition in October, where judges select three to receive the W.R. Motherwell Award. ")rte -Foot intO Furrow the By Bob'Trotter Members of some anunal right, groups are decrying the actions of a so-called "animal rights militia' which was in the news last weed,. The humane societies -- justifia- bly. 1 might add -- are saying that the whole premise of the animal rtghts.movement is a love and a re- spect for all living things anis that. would include humans. But some and this is an indicuncnt tit some members of the extreniL anima( Fights_-acuvJ,ts are bltuunif;._the tutu -animal rights people -- m dther words, farmers -- for the despicahk act of putting oven cleaner in ;r candy tar. You will recall 'that the Cold Buster candy bar was developed as a defence against hypothermia. Those "animal rights militia" mem- bers who adtnitted .to the deed placed .the poison in at least -+one Cold Buster bar in Western C,;aisi- da. And admitted it. Tits subsequent. farmers Calmed the bar to be pulled from the mar- ket. The reason for putting this sub - Stance in .the bar? Because rat, were used in testing the bar's c11i- cacy. "They (the animal rights militia) indicate that we merifieed or killed thousands of rats. I mean, this is simply just not true," said physiolo- gist Larry Wang, inventor of 4hc Cold Buster -candy bar. This- corner has been warning farmers and the general public for a decade about animal rights, acti- vists. These people, these animal rights militia people, are terrorists. s a rurakiivit of just some of vibes of -extremists in recent rote tic 's. In .1984, rat poison was found in two Mars Bars sent to British news media. by Animal Liberation Front extremists protesting research on Aitinlals.- , In 1986, rat poison was found in capsules of Contac, Dietac and Tcl- drin in Houston, Tex., and Orlando, Fla. The'drugs were recalled. In 1989, jars of Heinz baby -food were removed from British stores after more than 300 reports of con- tamination with glass shards, razor blade -bits and caustic soda. Heinz destroyed its stock and .redesigned the packaging. In 1989, Chilean grapes had an. embargo slapped on them after two cyanide -tainted gapes were found in a shipment in Philadelphia. )n 1990. a,box.of corm tlakes.was solc3`to a woman in Red Deer, Alta.. which i ontained a ,used condom. Responsibility was never deter- mined. Last year, as well, deoongestant (Sudafed) capsules were reported to have been tainted with cyanide in Seattle. A titan and a woman died atter taking them. Almost two mil- lion boxes. were recalled. This kind of activity, in my opin- ion, is despicable, unconscionable and is right up there with the work of terrorists who place bombs on airplanes and Mears in busy market places. Having animal rights activists stoop 'to such abominable ,tactics ooffwnly.iadicates to Ate test of the world Ate kind of people ,they ,pan ,.be. Leslie Ballentine, eitecutive di- rectl3r of :the .Ontario Farm Miami Council,,snageniauon of farmers set up to . jiMote good farming practices and to fight animal wel- fare extremists, is not • speaking from ,an unbiased position (but I agree with her. At a farm.nteeting recently, she said animal rights is the emerging issue of the 1990s. ."it (die animal rights movement) is dangerous and misguided and the .faiest-growing social n /merit of our time," she said. Sh. aid there are I-1 animal'rights go is in On- turioin 1988. but there sue 31 today. It is: a fast-growing • -movement and the only people fighting it.ti/` farmers. Good lack to duan, too; d oirtgelosnee 1 it. John Deere Limited is the nation- al program sponsor. The provincial sponsors are -the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Rals- ton Purina. For more information contact: Abe Wall, Regional Outstanding Young Farmers Chairman, (Bus.) 519-884-4320 (Res.) 519-745- 7128. 91 Stanley Street, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 5P1 Natural Re- sources Min- ister 'Bud Wildman has asked the federal govern- ment tovarit-- further • ship- ments into On- tario of ted deer that may be in- fected with a par- asite that is snot native to the province. -In a letter-tofederal Agricul— ture Minister Bill McKnight, Mr. Wildman says that animals that may carry the Elaphosrron- gylus Cervi parasite "constitute a potential threat to native wild- life in this province". -Wttdman'r-r+equest ct mes tbl l-lowingan incident -Iasi -month -in - which about 90 red deer were shipped from eastern Canada by Agriculture Canada to an abat- toir in the Owen Sound area for slaughter. The red deer had test- ed negative for the parasite but were from a shipment from New Zealand to New Bruns- wick in which two animals test ed positive. Agriculture Canada decided the whole shipmenr must be destroyed -to prevent spread of the parasite. Agriculture Canada transport- ed some animals from the ship- ment to Ontario because there was not a suitable abattoir in eastern Canada. Agriculture Canada has plans to ship more animals from the herd to Onta- rio to be processed. Agriculture Canada and Onta- rio recognize the parasite as high risk because the effect of the Elaphosrrongylus Cervi par- asite on native animals, such as whit tailed deer and moose, is u wn. The parasite is not considered a s ous threat to domestic livestock. Wildman also asked that Ag- riculture Canada no longer ship into Ontario • any animals that are from herds in which any types of diseases that threaten native animals have been found. Times -Advocate, January 22, 1992 134,1011 Cardiff lie kick oft 1992 Minn skew TORONTO Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff, Parliamentary Sec - rotary to the Minister of Agricul- ture will attend the opening day of the Canadian International Fami -Equipment -Show at-the'internstinn- al Centre in Toronto. Cardiff will speak Tuesday, Feb- ruary 4 at the Farm Show's annual kick-off luncheon. The Itmcheon is attended by members of the farm press and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute. First elected to the House of Commons in 1980 as the Progres- sive Conservative Member of Par- liament for the riding of Huron- Brucc, and re-elected in 1984 and 1988, Cardiff served as Parliamen- tary Secretary to the Solicitor Gen- eral from 1986 to T9i8,- parliamen- tary Secretary to the Honourable Don Mazankowski from April 1989 to May 1991, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Honourable Bill McKnight since May 1991. Cardiff has taken an increasingly active role in promoting Canadian agriculture abroad. He has repre- sented the Canadian Government 13n 'fade-iiiissifiis to 'Shift tet t Asia, the People's 'Republic of Chi- na, the United Kingdom and Eu- rope. Most recently, Cardiff attend- ed the tenth Inter -American Conferenceof Ministers of Agricul- ture in Madrid, Spain, and the 26 PAO Conference and The Com- monwealth Ministers of Agricul- ture Meeting in Rome, Italy. The Canadian international Pttrtn Equipment Show nuns l' bnrary 4 to 7 at the Toronto International Centre, 11900 Aitpon Road, Missis- sauga. It is one of North Americas preinier indoor farm shows -tut. tracts more than 50,000 visitors each year. The show is open front 9:3() a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 'bray through Thursday, and 9:30 amt. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday. 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