Western Standard - June 10, 2022


CORY'S RANT - Get your hands off my meat!


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4 minutes

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902

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64

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2

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Health Canada wants warning labels on packaging of ground beef and pork products warning consumers about health risks. Is this a good idea or a bad one? And what will the government do with all the extra warnings on the packaging?

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00:00:00.160 So, we're seeing the consequences of letting the government take over nearly every aspect of our lives for two years now, ostensibly for our own health and good.
00:00:09.500 Meddling, busybody bureaucrats now feel empowered to start legislating and pushing Canadians into what they feel should be better eating habits.
00:00:17.360 Now, just how much do you want government to control our lives?
00:00:20.300 Health Canada, this is the latest one, it's on the Western Standard Story, is proposing that warning labels be forced onto the packaging of all ground beef and pork products.
00:00:28.340 They feel that Canadians don't know what's in a single ingredient package, and they want to push us away from buying it.
00:00:35.160 I want to begin with, ground meat and pork products aren't unhealthy.
00:00:38.660 The issue some people have is in consuming products in moderation.
00:00:41.860 Yeah, they eat too much, and that doesn't matter what it is.
00:00:43.900 And that can apply to any food.
00:00:45.520 Obesity is an issue, and it causes a lot of health-related problems.
00:00:49.200 Trying to push people away from ground beef and pork products won't do a damn thing to aid with that, though.
00:00:52.940 What this labeling could do is push people away from those good, cost-effective sources of protein,
00:01:00.060 and push people into processed foods where ingredients are more nebulous.
00:01:03.440 That sure as hell won't make people any healthier.
00:01:05.960 The other consequences, of course, is that we could be damaging our domestic pork and beef producers,
00:01:09.660 of which Canada, we have a lot of people reliant on those industries, and they're important ones to us.
00:01:13.720 That might not be, then, to these people, though, so much a consequence as an intention.
00:01:19.940 Remember, woke extremists, they're infiltrating every level of government.
00:01:23.540 If you think elected officials are bad, just look at the people who have been populating the bureaucracies,
00:01:28.100 such as Health Canada.
00:01:29.880 In the world of the woke, they feel we need to force the world into becoming vegans
00:01:33.480 in order to stave off global warming. 0.88
00:01:35.800 I believe there's a story coming up about some measurements of cow farts, even.
00:01:39.160 Yes, the cow farts are warming the world. We have to stop it. 1.00
00:01:41.840 And they've attacked all forms of meat production and feel the ends justify the means
00:01:46.280 in trying to push people away from all meat consumption.
00:01:49.420 Now, we see these kind of nuts in the news all the time as they glue themselves to counters
00:01:53.260 in fast food restaurants or break into farms and try to free the chickens and turkeys.
00:01:58.080 The people in government bureaucracies are no less crazy.
00:02:01.360 They're just more subtle and more dangerous.
00:02:03.880 If we start labeling ground meat packages with warnings,
00:02:07.280 as we have with, say, cigarette packages,
00:02:09.260 you can rest assured the zealots in Health Canada won't stop with a simple small warning label.
00:02:14.160 As with other products, they'll want to get more blatant and pushy.
00:02:18.260 Perhaps they'll force packages to display pictures of clogged arteries in people
00:02:21.360 or a liposuction procedure.
00:02:23.500 Maybe they'll demand pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse be shown on the labels.
00:02:27.120 I wish I was exaggerating, but we can't underestimate
00:02:29.760 just how far the authoritarians in government want to go
00:02:33.720 in order to impose their worldview on us.
00:02:35.780 Hell, they're even giving presentations to young children in schools
00:02:39.080 on how to eat bugs, for crying out loud.
00:02:41.540 They won't stop on ground meat products.
00:02:43.440 They're going to go after roasts.
00:02:44.740 They're going to go after steaks.
00:02:46.260 They don't want to warn consumers about health risks.
00:02:48.540 They want consumers to stop consuming these products altogether.
00:02:52.160 Likewise, they won't stop with meat.
00:02:54.200 They've already expressed their intent to force labeling on foods
00:02:56.900 with high salt or sugar content as well.
00:02:59.600 They're on a crusade to make us eat what they tell us,
00:03:02.120 and they don't see any limits.
00:03:03.340 They have no respect for the individual choices of others
00:03:06.180 and feel it's their mandate and role to make those choices on everybody's behalf.
00:03:10.700 This is going to put pressure on manufacturers and distributors as well.
00:03:13.980 Food's a narrow margin industry, and extra labeling requirements cost money.
00:03:18.040 We really don't need food prices rising more than they already have been right now.
00:03:21.460 People are struggling.
00:03:22.820 As with liquor and cigarettes, the health crusaders will pressure for taxes
00:03:26.760 to be added to foods they deem unhealthy for people or the environment as well.
00:03:30.320 Many times they've already been calling for fat taxes to be applied
00:03:33.860 in certain restaurants and on certain foods.
00:03:36.500 These extremists now have a government authoritarian enough
00:03:39.280 to indulge these social engineers.
00:03:41.940 Trudeau never made a tax he didn't like.
00:03:44.260 We're losing our rates incrementally, and this is yet another example of it.
00:03:47.780 What people are dismissing as no big deal today
00:03:49.880 will turn into deepening incursions upon our right to choose,
00:03:52.920 and there are few choices more personal than that of what we'll consume.
00:03:56.240 My body, my choice, you guys.
00:03:58.460 I'm sick of being hectored and scolded by an ideological regime
00:04:02.400 obsessed with controlling my actions under the guise of public health.
00:04:07.020 We need to start reading the writing on the wall
00:04:08.880 and start pushing back at this barrage of controls upon our life and commerce.
00:04:13.560 Canadians need to stand up and say it loud and clear.
00:04:15.800 Hey, Trudeau, take your hands off my meat. 1.00
00:04:18.080 Thank you.
00:04:19.340 Corbla.
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