HEY!! ... is that Chicken Registered? - Ontario\'s rural economy falls under attack

HEY!! ... is that Chicken Registered? Ontario's rural economy falls under attack by urban-centric upper tier governments .

Chicken Farmer, Larry Robinson (above left), collects signatures on a petition protesting Ontario's revised chicken production regulations which he claims are putting any producer under 50,000 birds out of business. Mr. Robinson told us that the only exception to the rules would be if he raised, slaughtered and ate, his own chickens, on his own property ..... "If I took a chicken sandwich to work, I would be breaking the law".		Randy Hillier, President of the Lanark Landowners Association, addresses a crowd at his organization's protest food sale. Randy speaks with indignation about how food production and inspection regulations designed to protect urban consumers from industrial and foreign food producers, are making it impossible for the traditional family farmer, and the traditional rural economy, to function.


In Ontario more than 150 Lanark and Renfrew County residents lined up on Sept. 25, 2004 to purchase "illegal meat"; meat that had been butchered and was being sold in a manner that Canadian rural residents have been accustomed to since before Confederation, but which is now considered to be illegal.


Other food products sold illegally on September 25th included, eggs, and unpasturized apple cider. Rural residents have enjoyed vibrant local economies since their ancestors first settled this country. That economy now seems to be under threat from laws that are being imposed by politicians and bureaucrats who for the most part, are not completely certain about which part of a cow the milk comes from.