Our Land, Our Farms

Soy sludge from Brazil closes Hershey plant & The Renfrew Food Fight- Team Weston vs. The Renfrew Bakery.

OLA press release Ontario Landowners Association

Monday, December 4, 2006

The Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) has learned the CFIA is allowing dangerous foreign food components made from soy sludge to be used in Canada’s food processing industry, resulting in salmonella contamination. While the CFIA turns a blind eye to this significant health threat to Canadians, they wage a war of attrition against wholesome Canadian food and its producers. Canadian butchers, bakers, cheese and butter makers are their preferred and only prey.

Recently, the Hershey plant in Smiths Falls Ontario was closed and remains closed, keeping hundreds of employees out of work. The Landowners have learned soy lecithin from Brazil [1]Soybean lecithin comes from sludge left after crude soy oil goes through a "degumming" process. It is a waste product containing solvents and pesticides and has a consistency ranging from a gummy fluid to a plastic solid” (see attached brief for more details) contaminated the Hershey plant. However, CFIA refuses to disclose this fact to Canadians. This product is also extensively used to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables during long transit times from foreign countries to Canadian tables. The evidence from the CFIA web site clearly shows that most food recalls and alerts are from foreign food imports or their processing. In November 2006, the CFIA issued 10 food alerts, all were highly processed foods, and of these seven are confirmed as imported. The origins of the other 3 are undefined.

“The importer is voluntarily recalling” appears constantly and consistently on the CFIA website.

However, the CFIA is devoting all its resources and abusive enforcement practices against innocent Canadians and high quality Canadian foods. Recently the CFIA has targeted small town Bakers as a significant threat and have issued onerous compliance orders forcing their closure. This is in addition to their attack on Canadian egg-graders such as Shawn Carmichael which have resulted in the closing of nearly all grading stations in eastern Ontario. The CFIA has recently quarantined over 100 Canadian dairy and beef farms because of suspected contaminated feed from Purina owned by the multi national-Cargill.

Clearly, the CFIA’s influence and corrupt practices are trickling down to the provincial level, as we have witnessed an alarming escalation of attacks by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural affairs (OMAFRA), with recent raids on Michael Schmidt’s dairy farm, and the raid on a Barwick Ontario butcher shop. 

Is creating a Police state against Canadian farmers and local producers justified, the answer is no: by the CFIA’s own web site admission Canadian grown food and locally produced food does not appear as a hazard.

The question is why? Has the CFIA become captured by its own regulatory powers and held hostage by corporate Canada? Is the ransom the elimination of all competition--the cost our health and freedom of choice?

The Landowners will hold a Title Fight at the Renfrew bakery on Friday December 8th 2006.

Time High noon.

MAIN EVENT – Food Champion of Canada Title Fight