Today, we will examine a small part of the growing, prima facia evidence that Chicken Farmers of Ontario ("CFO") are guilty of hypocrisy as charged.
The following is taken from CFO's Annual Report 2014.
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Location
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What CFO says
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The Fruits of CFO
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p. 5, Message from Henry Zantingh, Chair and Rob Dougans, President
& CEO
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“…it is critically important that CFO remains very focused,
disciplined, effective and highly
relevant to its farmer-members, to industry stakeholders, to consumers, and to
public policy.”
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Whether or not CFO adequately works on behalf of their farmer-members,
I will leave to those farmer-members to decide.
A Small Flock chicken farmer should be considered an “industry
stakeholder”. As a Small Flocker, I
for one see and feel nothing but the exact opposite of what CFO says.
For the others, especially the consumers, I suggest they feel used
and abused by CFO as well. Witness
that:
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30% to 80% of Ontario’s chickens are
contaminated by deadly bacteria. Prima
facie evidence of “poor quality chicken”.
See Contaminated
Chicken
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By denying chicken a more natural lifestyle
and feed source, CFO causes or contributes to poor nutritional aspect of the
chicken meet produced (eg. excess fat, excess processing water sold as
chicken, high Omega-6 (bad fat) and low Omega-3 (good fat). See Animal
Fats In Our Diets
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By CFO allowing the use of questionable drugs,
feed supplements, and antibiotics, chickens grow Superbugs that further
threaten the health and safety of consumers.
See Choose:
Frankenstein Chicken, or Naturally Raised Chicken
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By CFO allowing their member-farmers to gouge
and obtain unjust enrichment from falsified and inflated FCR charges that
vacuumed $10 Billion from consumer’s wallets from 2003 to 2013. See: The
Chicken Mafia Exposed
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Affordability of chicken in retail grocery
stores has dropped by as much as 31.7% from 1995-2005. See Unaffordable
Chicken In Ontario
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More and more, consumers want organic, free
range, and/or pastured poultry, but CFO refuses to allow a system to fully
supply that need. Consumers are forced
to buy CAFO factory farm chicken so that CFO farmer-members receive the
profitable monopolistic benefits, at the arrogant detriment of consumers. See Supply
Management Is a Failure
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There is a lot more evidence of CFO's hypocrisy, but I think my point is made sufficiently for the conviction of CFO as charged.
CFO is welcome to provide their response to these charges and the evidence. I will publish CFO's response here in an unedited form. Somehow, I believe CFO will continue to ignore and stonewall. If so, then let CFO be convicted by the the Court of Public Opinion in absentia.
