Harmony sounds like a good thing, so when Canada and the United States announced a new, high-level initiative to harmonize the standards of food between the two countries, then that must be good, too.
Unfortunately, harmony in this case means lowering Canada's food standards to the U.S. level. This article cites some of the differences between the two countries:
Canadian regulations further stipulate that sausages sold here must contain a minimum of nine per cent meat and no more than 40-per-cent total fat, while U.S. rules don't set minimum meat content for many sausage products.
American shoppers can buy dairy products that tout certain health virtues of probiotics. Here, you can't sell a product making the same ambitious claims.
Which food would you rather eat?
It's bad enough that NAFTA has forced Canada to accept high-fructose corn syrup (glucose-fructose). And that processed cheese in Canada can be identified as cheese in the U.S. And that Coffee Mate is a non-dairy creamer in the United States while Canada's more precise definition is coffee whitener.
If this Regulatory Cooperation Council deal required the U.S. to raise its standards to the Canadian mark, we would be cheering this legislation.
President Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper are touting this initiative as a way to speed up cargo crossing between the borders. We have gone on record as saying trade should travel freer between the two countries (tourists as well). But this looks more like an excuse to favor U.S. companies at the expense of Canadian food consumers, and a missed opportunity to help U.S. food consumers.
If either government would like to prove us wrong, we will give space here for a rebuttal. In the meantime, be on your guard.
Canada will never tolerate the poisonous fare, the slop, hormone laced meats and milk, arsenic soaked chickens, Bisphenol A saturated Shiite the over-priced, over-commercialized diet of the American people. We will rise in one united French voice and reject Harper's Americanization plans, throw him and his cronies right to Hell out of office, vote in a Socialist NDP government, re-establish the communist party of Canada as the opposition, join with Russia, and communist China in opposing "Crapitalism" from the South, and hang Harper in effigy by the balls in Ottawa as a reminder of our pure Canadian sentiments. We are a strong, healthy people many of Asian descent, ready to fight for this land. We are a multi-cultured, multi-lingual force in the world,and will never be "forced" to accept any other countries standards - Harper is a very sick man,sees things through Western colored glasses, and is about to be "deposed" for his "American Brown" nose alone! Sooner Putin influences us than the corpocracy from the South!
GMO's are outed in \Canada too!
UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE - GMO's
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/13047-bt-toxin-found-in-blood-of-pregnant-women-and-fetuses
Research Paper – Made public:
http://somloquesembrem.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/arisleblanc2011.pdf
Also: http://www.enveurope.com/content/23
Also: http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2011/10/studies-conclude-gmo-feed-causes-organ-disruption-in-animals/#.To4KgLJ22uI
Poison crops spread uncontrollably
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111005172643.htm
Miscarriages in livestock
http://farmandranchfreedom.org/gmo-miscarriages
Corporate thugs suspected:
http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2011/01/roundup-part-i-a-very-serious-poison/comment-page-1/#comment-200382
American ""standards"" a Frieking farce!!!!
Posted by: Uncle B | October 09, 2011 at 12:55 PM