It’s ironic that even as a vast majority of the population becomes increasingly disconnected with how livestock production actually works, people are becoming more interested in the ethics involved.
It’s official – Rich and Jeremy Vesta, the father-son team that has formed the public face of Harmony Beef, has set a date for when the Balzac plant will be back in business. “We’ll be killing on April 4,” said
Late last year, it was discovered that a scary superbug gene has now been found in Canada, from two ground beef samples and an E. coli culture from an infected patient. I know the word “super” is thrown around a
For years, we’ve heard about how much better the easily readable, fully writable ultra-high frequency (UHF) livestock RFID ear tags are compared to the current low-frequency industry standard. If you are asking, ‘If they are so great, where the heck
Most national treasures are carefully stored and just photographed and looked at occasionally. Canada’s genetic resources are stored with great care, but parts are always in use, being tested, shared and regenerated – under careful supervision. Every time a new
Just before Christmas last year, Dean Cresswell took his dogs for a quick walk in an empty field beside a Canadian Tire in Windsor, Ontario. Halfway through the field, he chanced on a gruesome find: a small brown dog, its
It’s a can of worms that hasn’t been opened in 20 years – the rates that Alberta producers pay to lease Crown land for grazing. Alberta’s auditor general, Merwan Saher, dropped a bit of a bombshell on July 6 of
