taint meat

Sounds like a very American approach.

There's a HuffPo Canada? That's sort of like having a Red State Somalia, isn't it?

Canadian Meat Recall is going on the band name list.

This is Canada's Benghazi. I have a theory that bacon is somehow involved. Probably to cover up the hamburger. Buns may even be involved, nice buns. I hear that somebody might be getting the pickle on the side. Something doesn't look right here. There needs to be an investigation. Who knew what and when? What should I have for breakfast? I'm just asking questions here. Is a bacon burger a "legitimate" breakfast?

They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

qorkfiend: Sounds like a very American approach.

Harper is a very GOP PM.

Question: Why are we importing beef from Canada? Don't we have enough of our own?

Canada used to look so promising. We're going to be hurting for a long time after Stephens done with us

At first I was like, it's about Canada, who cares and then I was like, OMG, it affects America what's up with that? I still have no opinion or any contribution to make, just thought I'd mention my thought processes, such as they are.

Sorry Canadians.

hi! um..., is E. coli similar to E. coli ?

/journalism is dying.

Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

Sounds like Harper is Canada's GWB, at least from where I'm sitting in the U.S. Lots of short-sighted decisions, gutting education, easing environmental protections, etc. Is that a fair statement?

utah dude: hi! um..., is E. coli similar to E. coli ?

/journalism is dying.

...and, yet, we all knew what was being said.

If you think italics are what makes or breaks journalism, then your shiatty blog needs work.

mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

Don't Troll Me Bro!: Sounds like Harper is Canada's GWB... Is that a fair statement?

Pretty close, including hundreds of billions in mortgage guarantees pouring like a fire house from the federal government until very recently. GWB may have been brighter than Canda's three stooges - Harper, Flaherty and Carney, the latter another Goldman Sachs alumnus - in that the US housing boom/bust cycle was a secondary result of blind faith in deregulation. For Canada's "fiscally responsible Conservatives" funneling money into the mortgage chute was central policy and the secret sauce behind our "banking miracle".

Tony Corbo, a senior lobbyist with Food & Water Watch

"Food safety does not work that way!"

With as much as the present Canadian Conservatives are trying to emulate the GOP, I wonder how long it will be before Harper tries to dismantle Medicare and make the Canadian healthcare system look like the US? Although I doubt even HE is that pants on fire on head retarded to do something that harebrained (since I'm sure the people of Canada would come after him and the Conservatives with torches and pitchforks if he tried).

Why is this story in the Politics section?

Don't Troll Me Bro!: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

Sounds like Harper is Canada's GWB, at least from where I'm sitting in the U.S. Lots of short-sighted decisions, gutting education, easing environmental protections, etc. Is that a fair statement?

More like Harper is what you would have got with Romney. Pointlessly pandring to a base that will always support him anyway because of the (c) beside his name, and following the dictates of his Corporate Masters.

GentlemanJ: Why is this story in the Politics section?

Those Northern devils just tried to inflict biological warfare on another country. Probably one in a series of attempts to soften us up.
/like that's needed 

lj1330: Question: Why are we importing beef from Canada? Don't we have enough of our own?

IANAR(ancher) but my guess is that it has something to do with the US using one third of its corn crop to make ethanol, mandated for use by the EPA. Corn is a major component of cattle feed (all that sugar fattens 'em up faster than a teenager on Big Gulps...well, equally fast, anyway). Raise the price/decrease the supply of corn, you change the economics of raising beef.

For cheaper beef, anyway. The more expensive range-fed stuff, not so much.

That's my guess, but I never did finish that GED in agribusiness, so YMMV

beta_plus: mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

You are a drooling retard.

THAT is an ad hominem.

There is no ad hominem present in the post you quoted. If you're going to wield fallacious reasoning like a cudgel, at least get your fallacies correct.

machodonkeywrestler: UNC_Samurai: Canadian Meat Recall is going on the band name list.

I'm pretty sure it's a sexual position.

Naw, that's just what we call "pulling out".

Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

/The weather today? Definitely not caused by climate change. Definitely. Not. Caused. By. Tar Sands by products. Either...
//Ecoli: It cleans out your guts just like draino.

Did anyone RTFA? Because a lot of folks seem confused about which food inspectors (US, not Canadian in this case) will get canned, and why.

/I know, I know, welcome to Fark

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: Did anyone RTFA? Because a lot of folks seem confused about which food inspectors (US, not Canadian in this case) will get canned, and why.

/I know, I know, welcome to Fark

it cannot be stressed enough... :)

Who is hurt by cheap tainted meat? Certainly not job creators. Just regular people. Why should politicians care?

AurizenDarkstar: With as much as the present Canadian Conservatives are trying to emulate the GOP, I wonder how long it will be before Harper tries to dismantle Medicare and make the Canadian healthcare system look like the US? Although I doubt even HE is that pants on fire on head retarded to do something that harebrained (since I'm sure the people of Canada would come after him and the Conservatives with torches and pitchforks if he tried).

It's already in the works. The Canada Health Accord expires in 2014, and a year ago the federal government unilaterally handed down a new cost-share formula that puts caps on the feds' share of costs after that. That means that the provinces will have to pay a larger share of the healthcare costs for an aging population, whether that means an increase in taxes, privatization or decreased service/quality. In the end, because it's a complicated issue years in the making, Harper's betting that the people will blame the provincial premiers when things go sideways, and unfortunately I think there's a good chance he's right.

sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

/The weather today? Definitely not caused by climate change. Definitely. Not. Caused. By. Tar Sands by products. Either...
//Ecoli: It cleans out your guts just like draino.

I'm pretty sure you've seen the stupid right wingers who blabber on about things that seem totally moronic. You're the left wing version of that.

change1211: sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

/The weather today? Definitely not caused by climate change. Definitely. Not. Caused. By. Tar Sands by products. Either...
//Ecoli: It cleans out your guts just like draino.

I'm pretty sure you've seen the stupid right wingers who blabber on about things that seem totally moronic. You're the left wing version of that.

OKalydokaly Mr minister of censorship. Durrrrrrrrrrr.

/Scientists will not be silenced by Rightwing mother farkers like you.
//Have a nice day.

beta_plus: mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

Canada will not allow poor or middlexclsss blacks or Hispanics in. Period.

mrshowrules: Harper's on a short leash. Anytime we choose to merge our two left parties, he is done in the next election.

News to me. I thought that we only had one left-of-centre party (the NDP). 

/unless you also meant the Green Party, lulz

The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: Did anyone RTFA? Because a lot of folks seem confused about which food inspectors (US, not Canadian in this case) will get canned, and why.

/I know, I know, welcome to Fark

The problem is that the border inspectors were intended to be redundant, but now they're increasingly necessary because Canada doesn't have enough inspectors. I have a cousin who's an inspector in Alberta and he said that they're stretched so thin that they're to the point that they don't really inspect facilities/products much anymore, they just review the on-site corporate inspectors' paperwork. And he's delaying retirement because he knows he won't be replaced.

Felgraf: apoptotic: s

But wouldn't that just encourage people to shift it back to the canadian federal government?

Administration of the health system is at the provincial level, so long as the provinces comply with federal standards (so that all Canadians theoretically have equal access etc). I could easily envision the federal government down the road putting a stop to trying to shift the blame back to where it belongs by saying "You want us to pay a bigger share? Fine, we're taking over running things too", which wouldn't go over well at all.

Malcolm_Sex: Canada used to look so promising. We're going to be hurting for a long time after Stephens done with us

Once the taxpayer is forced to cover the inevitable housing correction it'll demolish social services for the better part of a generation, if not longer. Almost as if planned. Worst PM in Canadian history.

machodonkeywrestler: change1211: sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

/The weather today? Definitely not caused by climate change. Definitely. Not. Caused. By. Tar Sands by products. Either...
//Ecoli: It cleans out your guts just like draino.

I'm pretty sure you've seen the stupid right wingers who blabber on about things that seem totally moronic. You're the left wing version of that.

Unfortunately, as crazy as it sounds, he is not wrong about the censorship.

Link

Nope. Impossible. Both sides are bad, therefore both sides are equally bad. Because Jesus, and my gut, and America!