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2 THE RURAL VOICE
Feedback
Safe food is a health
care issue
In the March issue John Beardsley
posed the right question: Whose
farmers will continue to feed cities in
Canada: Brazil's? U.S.'s? China's?
It must be becoming clear that
Canadian farmers cannot compete in
our own country against those who
subsidize their farmers and permit
them to employ slave labour.
Chaiw store buyers are going to
continue to purchase inventory as
cheaply as possible, with little or no
concern as to production methods or
inspection procedures practised in
those other countries. We can only
compete by selling our products at a
loss to primary producers.
That is what is happening now.
How much longer can it be
continued?
Ontario farmers are requesting
parity with the U.S. Only parity with
the U.S. can correct our present
dilemma.
It was recently published that the
U.S. has budgeted $93 billion to farm
support in 2006.
Canada, with 10 per cent of the
U.S. population and a lower dollar.
will need to budget about $11 billion
annually to provide parity with the
U.S.
I doubt the Canadian' government
will allow us to employ illegal aliens
for $20 a day (like the U.S.), but the
$1 1 billion in support would allow us
to compete in our own markets and
maintain a source of nutrition
that Canadian consumers can be
assured is inspected by Canadian
authorities.
Health care has become the greatest
concern of our governments. At least
it sounds that way. Why wouldn't it
make sense to regard safe and
homegrown abundant nutrition as an