Canadians do not need national food safety standards

I am appalled to hear Michael McCain, the head of Maple Leaf Foods Incorporated demanding national food safety standards and the dismantling provincial standards. There are so many things wrong with this. First of all and most importantly, the best meat comes from small producers. Small producers are being squeezed enough by absurd over-regulation already. Second, an inspection standard is just a bureaucratic hurdle. If things go awry, a producer can pass on the blame to the government. Third, under the duplicitous guise of consumer safety, national standards reinforce monopoly control for shamefully disgusting trash that is being peddled as “food” by such mega-factories.

Take a look at this nonsense:

He said most Canadians probably aren’t aware of the differences in standards.
“That’s actually the travesty. If they were aware and they made a conscious choice that’s acceptable to them, everybody is free to make a good choice. But I think the travesty here is they’re probably not even aware of different standards out there.“

So, Michael McCain is petitioning to reduce those free choices??? Shame on anybody who would lobby for such national standards.

I would never trust pre-packaged shrink-wrapped garbage over freshly cut meat from a local farm — ever. My free conscious choice to trust a local producer has nothing to do with government oversight. It has to do with the fact that the producer delivers his produce by hand himself. In other words, he can not afford to mess things up. He governs himself accordingly because he needs me as a repeat customer. I could buy cheap luncheon-meat at the grocery store any time I want.