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Buy xanax no rx, AUGUST 11, 2007 - Across the world, policies aimed at controlling the dangers of industrial food are harming the local food systems that happen to offer the best available solutions. We witnessed that fact in stark terms on our recent visit to the islands of Haida Gwaii, off British Columbia's northern coast, where the longstanding tradition of farmers selling meat directly to the consumer is threatened by new regulations.
Most modern slaughterhouses are secretive, high-security operations - the Supermax prisons of the industrial food system. So we were a little bit surprised when Doug Richardson, whose family has farmed and ranched on Haida Gwaii for five generations, said, "Well, let's take a look at the abbatoir."
It's a plain wooden building, set back a little ways from the barns (one of which has a sign reading "Taj Moo Hall") and the house that would overlook a beautiful bend in the Tlell River if it weren't for a low dike protecting the place from the "Yule Tide" floods. The Richardsons don't slaughter more than one cow a day, and only a handful each year. The cows walk up a cattle run and then, from above, are shot with the .25-20 rifle that Doug's father bought with eagle and crow bounties when he was 17 years old, buy xanax no rx. It works every time, said Doug, but even if it didn't, there's no automatic system or overstressed worker pushing a still-living animal along to the next stage. The animal is cut to bleed not even three feet from where it died and is raised on a hand-cranked wooden windlass. "You can do it with one arm, it doesn't run out of gas, cheapest ultram in the world, and it doesn't rust," said Doug, admiring the simple winching system.
The meat is cut, one cow per day, on a huge maple butcher's block, with its weight recorded in black marker on the wall - "I can give you the weight of everything that was killed going back 15, 20 years," Doug said. Buy xanax no rx, The Richardsons have sold meat to three generations of islanders, and have a waiting list for their beef. Soon, however, the whole tradition may come to end.
Spooked by a series of contaminated meat scares (all of them linked to industrial-scale meat production), the government of British Columbia is pushing inspection regulations that would force the Richardsons to transport their animals to a government-inspected slaughterhouse. The nearest one, at the moment, is more than 15 hours away by ferry and transport truck. (For more on the regulation and the Richardons, see this article published by The Tyee.)
The government is making efforts to rationalize the regulations, Doxycycline for sale, with proposals to set up more official abattoirs including, according to Bill Mackay ofthe Graham Island East Coast Farmers' Institute, a standing offer to help support a small slaughterhouse on Haida Gwaii. But small farmers across the province are outraged by the regulations - Alisa and I hear about it wherever we go - and there's simply no way the government can make its industrial model work in all the faraway reaches of the province, buy xanax no rx. No one on Haida Gwaii has even stepped forward to take up the government's offer of support - no one believes there's enough business to make a slaughterhouse viable.
The real point is this: the government is worried about the "traceability" of meat in an anonymous and highly complex industrial food system. Meanwhile, their solution to the problem threatens to put out of business those farmers and ranchers whose product has perfect traceability - the consumer buys direct from the farmer and, if he or she happens to get ill, knows exactly where the meat came from. What's more, even if the meat is contaminated, the effects will be contained to a single farm and a small circle of consumers, rather than tainting a system that might generate thousands of pounds of meat going out to hundreds of stores. Buy xanax no rx, Already, the proposed regulation has dampened family farm projects on the islands of Haida Gwaii. We met one longtime farmer who'd been planning to add a dozen or so ewes to his property, but changed his mind when he heard about the new policy. "There's no point setting up just to shut down," said Ralph Leach. The gap between the government's view of farming-as-industry and the small, community-scale approach is huge, Ralph added. For many islands farmers, valium prescription, for example, keeping farm animals is the best and most cost-effective way to fertilize soil and create farms that are locally self-sustaining. "It's part of the circle."-JBM.
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