[2Cdo]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

It has nothing to do with Alberta. Generally speaking, our food standards are higher than the US. But apparently not in this specialty market. Also note that Canadian beef comes from other provinces too, this isn't just Alberta bashing.

ALL beef produced in Canada meets humane slaughter standards, but keep pretending you and the other usual suspects have no bias against Alberta.

[DrCaleb]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

It has nothing to do with Alberta. Generally speaking, our food standards are higher than the US. But apparently not in this specialty market. Also note that Canadian beef comes from other provinces too, this isn't just Alberta bashing.

ALL beef produced in Canada meets humane slaughter standards, but keep pretending you and the other usual suspects have no bias against Alberta.

It depends on what you class as 'humane'. The standard slaughter method now is to slit their throat and hang them upside down while they bleed out. When I was working the kill floor, it was an air activated bolt to the brain. Instant death, as opposed to the slow death from blood loss.

I'd consider the older way much more humane. But there is also the subject of feed lots. I also wouldn't consider an animal's stay in one of those for half it's life to be 'humane'. Nor would I consider it humane that they get fed grain, and are given limited room to move.

Grain, corn and soy are not a normal food for ruminants, it's much like putting a person on an all carb and sugar diet then keeping them in a small room for half their life. Ask a horse owner what happens when you feed a horse too many oats.

'Humane' means different things to different people.

[andyt]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

What? Why so capitalist? Earls should use the meat we say they should use! That is the Alberta way!

Which is what's happening. They thought they would get more customers with the certified beef, now they fear losing customers with the backlash. Straight capitalism - giver the consumer what he wants.

[herbie]

Well if "humane treatment" means hugging them while they're killed after hauling them halfway around the country jammed in a trailer and arresting anyone who dares give them water, then Houston we've got a problem.
Or whining like crazy so they won't put "Alberta Beef" on meat they sell in the USA and then groaning they should buy only that marked "Alberta Beef" here... we've got another.
Yeah the 'most free enterprise province in Canada", the free market don't always go your way. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.

[andyt]

That's how Canadian business operates, including the farmer. "I a rugged individualist, let me do my own thing, but if the market turns against me, wah wah,protect me daddy government."

[BeaverFever]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

It has nothing to do with Alberta. Generally speaking, our food standards are higher than the US. But apparently not in this specialty market. Also note that Canadian beef comes from other provinces too, this isn't just Alberta bashing.

ALL beef produced in Canada meets humane slaughter standards, but keep pretending you and the other usual suspects have no bias against Alberta.

I don't have a grudge against Alberta the way people like you have a grudge against Ontario. I have no reason to have bias against the province. Stop assuming I think and operate with hate-filled bias the same way you do because that os what makes me so different from you.

As for your claim that "all beef meets humane standards" well you obviously don't know what you're talking about. I mean, you talk as if you think all humane standards in the world are the same. You don't seem to realize that anyone, even most sadistic animal abuser in the world, can claim to be humane by his opinion. Just because they say they are, doesn't mean they are. And in top of that what shitty standards do exist are unenforced and unpoliced. It's basically just window dressing.

[bootlegga]

Earl's just pulled off a New Coke marketing move and got themselves tons of free publicity.

I'd bet this was nothing more than a marketing stunt to shore up falling market share.

[bootlegga]

andyt andyt:

I doubt Earl's is buying that preshrunk shit. Usually restaurants get better quality beef than the consumer. Don't know about Earls, don't think I've ever eaten there.

I worked there in the mid-90s and they bought top quality beef (Angus AAA, 28 day aged) and none of their meat was ever frozen - in fact the restaurant only had a tiny small chest freezer that kept stuff for the bar.

[2Cdo]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

It has nothing to do with Alberta. Generally speaking, our food standards are higher than the US. But apparently not in this specialty market. Also note that Canadian beef comes from other provinces too, this isn't just Alberta bashing.

ALL beef produced in Canada meets humane slaughter standards, but keep pretending you and the other usual suspects have no bias against Alberta.

I don't have a grudge against Alberta the way people like you have a grudge against Ontario. I have no reason to have bias against the province. Stop assuming I think and operate with hate-filled bias the same way you do because that os what makes me so different from you.

As for your claim that "all beef meets humane standards" well you obviously don't know what you're talking about. I mean, you talk as if you think all humane standards in the world are the same. You don't seem to realize that anyone, even most sadistic animal abuser in the world, can claim to be humane by his opinion. Just because they say they are, doesn't mean they are. And in top of that what shitty standards do exist are unenforced and unpoliced. It's basically just window dressing.

I said all beef in Canada you illiterate hack, and everything I said about you and dickheads like you is true. Your as bad as your twin andy, probably because you share the same small brain.

BTW I work in Alberta/BC but live in Ontariowe. The dislike I have for this province is reflected in the Toronto/Ottawa retards who keep electing the most crooked party in Ontarios history.

[BRAH]

Is Earls Restaurants' beef halal? (GRAPHIC)
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$1:

Sikhs are forbidden from consuming Halal meat because of the terrible pain inflicted on animals. This is uncool.

WTF Earls that's not humane.

[BeaverFever]

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I said all beef in Canada you illiterate hack, and everything I said about you and dickheads like you is true. Your as bad as your twin andy, probably because you share the same small brain.

BTW I work in Alberta/BC but live in Ontariowe. The dislike I have for this province is reflected in the Toronto/Ottawa retards who keep electing the most crooked party in Ontarios history.

But you're wrong dummy. They don't follow the same humane standards And you're the one who accused me of having an opinion on this issue based on some kind of anti-Alberta prejudice. Or has your memory failed you again?

[herbie]

Earls wimped out again. They were in on a plan to rid the area of the Vancouver Farmers Market. Now they're ooh - the market was a good thing... we support it.
Playing both sides of the fence to end up stuck on it?