Farming must return to the basics
Your messaging to farmers and particularly ranchers should be, stop pharming and get back to farming.
If we stopped putting hormones in beef cattle, we could send thousands of tonnes of beef to the largest single market in the world, the European Union.
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It’s time to wake up to the ag pharmaceutical company corruption of our industry.
I won’t even bring up the use of Roundup, a proven carcinogen, on standing grain crops to accelerate drying.
It’s time to straighten up and fly right — the period of pandering to that crappy, corrupting neighbour and bullying trade partner south of us should end.
It’s time to find new markets and address them as they wish to be addressed, with products they want.
Scott McGregor,
Okotoks, Alta.
