Fuck Communism

The left hates government…in Argentina.

British dairy farmers squeezed by supermarkets

Without the benefit of a supply management system British dairy farmers are finding themselves at the mercy of the supermarkets, according to a new report.Britain Telegraph newspaper reports that while milk prices in the supermarket have risen modestly, the price received by farmers has declined by 25 per cent in the past decade. Meanwhile supermarket profits on each litre of milk have risen tenfold.
The article adds that, last year. 979 dairy farmers in England and Wales left the industry.

http://www.ontariofarmer.com/

Liberal baggage

Harper broke his Golden Rule: never trust a Liberal!

Dion’s 3 Pillars Don’t Stand Up to Scrutiny

In his bid to take control of the Liberal party, Stéphane Dion claimed there are three issues he would focus on: social justice, economic prosperity and environmental sustainability. The media has painted Dion as an intellectual policy wonk - but how thought out is his plan?

In Dion’s Energy and Climate Change plan, he states: “The federal government will propose to provinces and territories and support the adoption of a 10% target for ethanol in gasoline and 10% biodiesel in diesel by 2010.”

What are the impacts of using food crops to produce bio-fuels?

“From an agricultural vantage point, the automotive demand for fuel is insatiable. The grain it takes to fill a 25-gallon tank with ethanol just once will feed one person for a whole year [...]

The competition for grain between the world’s 800 million motorists who want to maintain their mobility and its 2 billion poorest people who are simply trying to survive is emerging as an epic issue. Soaring food prices could lead to urban food riots in scores of lower-income countries that rely on grain imports, such as Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, and Mexico. The resulting political instability could in turn disrupt global economic progress, directly affecting all countries.”

I wonder how Dion will spin taking food from the poor to fuel his hybrid Prius as “social justice”?

Harper: Kyoto would devastate the Canadian economy

National Post: No doubt now about global warming

Mexico faces free trade anxiety

Ontario Farmer Daily: Mexico faces free trade anxiety

Free trade with the United States is raising fresh fears among Mexico’s farmers, the Washington Post reports.

The poultry industry is the latest to sound the alarm bells over a flood of American products coming into the country when the final provisions of the pact go into effect over the next two years. It will open Mexico up to unlimited imports.

Farmers in the article say they can't compete with U.S. poultry raised on heavily subsidized corn. They say it will push many of them out of work, resulting in even more poor Mexican peasants seeking work – legally or illegally – north of the border.

That's no the way the North American Free Trade Agreement was intended to work. Theoretically it was to create more jobs and wealth in Mexico, reducing the emigration pressure. But, the article adds, that in the years following the deal much of Mexico's countryside has been overwhelmed by crops from the U.S., forcing many peasants off the land.

The truth about the CWB

On one hand, some are claiming that a majority of farmers are firmly behind the single desk structure of the CWB and the Harper government’s attempt to dismantle it is “authoritarian.” On the other hand, you have hundreds of farmers (Ralph Klein among them) incensed at the CWB monopoly. It’s hard to find unbiased, objective analysis on what the CWB does for/to farmers and what eliminating its monopoly would mean. Anyone know where I could find some objective analysis?