Who doesn't slaughter their own pigs

Posted: December 9th, 2010 - 7:38am by Doug Powell

On Dec. 6, 2010, Karen Selick wrote in Canada’s National Post about the plight of an Ottawa-area man charged with home slaughtering and distribution in a story titled, Drop The Pig And Put Your Hands In The Air.

M. Milstein, doctor of veterinary medicine, Vancouver, responds in today's National Post in a memo to veterinary colleagues at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency:

You wasted your time getting a veterinary degree and spending your professional lives working towards ensuring that Canadians have a wholesome food supply. All you had to do, according to Karen Selick, was grow up on a farm, hunt, join the Armed Forces and get a degree in biomedical toxicology.

Then you "could tell a healthy animal from a sick one." Who knew?
 

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Categories: Food Safety Policy
Tags: food safety, home, inspection, pig, slaughter, Veterinarian

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Anonymous says:

Hell, the owner of the house and two of his buddies are all in the back yard butchering a pig. They are all from Romania and I do not know if this is for the Christmas meal or if it is just a cost saving exercise. People have been doing that for hundreds (thousands?) of years and ham and bacon were not all bought from the grocery store in a frozen box. I am hoping I will find out soon though I don't believe I am interested in Haggais(?) because I have not drunken any Heineken yet!

Posted on December 18th, 2010 - 3:28pm

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