I Dislike Hippies and The Saskatchewan Film Pool

So, I got into yet again more conversations about hippies this weekend. I really don't like the hippy way about things, they are completely ignorant to everything that isn't hippy. For example my brother told a story about a girl who disliked him b/c of his employment. He works for a Seismic company. The company does the ground work for their parent company which finds energy, dominantly natural gas. They do however, when paid enough look for oil. This makes him an oil worker, according to hippy he is the worlds worst person b/c he causes pollution and global warming and cancer and various other bad things. Hippy doesn't think for one minute that without the work of Seismic companies there is no way we could tell what lies below (I mean far below, not like digging a hole for fun below). Or for that matter it ishow we tell how much pollution we are causing compared to that of history which would allow us to gain a greater knowledge of climate change and my list could go on. Also it causes less natural disturbance than digging a huge hole in the earth. Basically the hippy just trashed one of the greatest tools we use to understand the natural world and improve what we do to it, one of the greatest hippy tools and someone who performs the hippy task, all the while being completely oblivious to how hippies get the information they need to make their stereotypical hippy world view.

This brings me to my next hippy problem. This problem lies when hippies ruin media. I won't get started on the false facts of Bill Gates but in a similar light I have been embarrassed by my own kind in my own city. The Saskatchewan Film Pool is hosting an event in downtown Regina to encourage people to be there late at night. They are playing movies outside in a parking lot to show that our downtown is safe. A noble idea. So what do they show? A web series called The Meatrix and a investigative report called Frankensteer.

I am not even going to get in to the faults and misleading information of The Meatrix. Besides Frankensteer is Canadian based and has most of the same arguments arranged that is simply make for a bad fear tactic news story.

1. The introduction is ridiculous. Fear the cow! They got one thing right, farming is being made more efficient yet I find it funny that this is a bad thing, we need more efficient cars but not food?
2. Cannibal? Yes we did do this but we have learned not to, god forbid a learning curve. FYI Pigs in the wild eat each other, that's how they rid the sick and weak.
3. The farmer in Chatham Ont. who has the ideal ways of cattle farming is quoted as "The animals are living in their natural environment. Eating the grass as they would have naturally."
Really? So I guess the cows we have come to love didn't originate in India or Europe like previous history states, I guess cows originated in Chatham Ont. in the nature. Don't get me wrong what the farmer does is great but as a Documentary this is out right bull shit the fact they are trying to make people believe that this is better by using a quote that is outright false points you in the BS direction.
4. Cows in the feedlot are stressed. Sure when they go yes they are being forced to move. You'd be pissed to. Then they get fed and its all ok. Also they make it seem like its such a horrible stress yet when you think about it it shows that the farmers know what they are doing and care. They try to reduce the stress by corral designs and they slowly change their diet. When its wrong they know the consequence and try to avoid it. Yes mistakes happen and animals get the wrong feed. You also have to keep in mind this is their lively they don't purposely screw up feed as a dead cow is worthless.
5.$50 on antibiotics, that is an outrage! I have never even spent that amount on myself! Never have I heard of such over abuse. FYI cows use a lot of similar drugs as humans. So a little more penicillin in my beef please. Not to mention cows have ear tags, the tags correspond with a little book that has their drug life in it, cows have to wait a certain amount of time weened from drugs until they go to market. This includes feed dosage. Pigs go through the same thing. While we're on thing god for bid trying to keep a cow from getting sick and dosing the feed. Its like fluoride in a water supply just plain wrong. Why care for a cow or your teeth.
6.Cows are the next Baseball players. Why are we obsessed with steroids. No cow gets steroids they do get hormones. Its like anyone taking HGH or for that matter a man who wants to become a woman takes estrogen pills. Yes it plays with your regular levels is it hurtful? NO, is it harmful? maybe but its natural and beside the cows get eaten before it has any long lasting effects. Then their solution, lets listen to Europe, like they have never screwed up their cow industry seriously.
7.Revlar H, yea its band in Canada, wait why are we talking about it? Oh yea this is a campaign of fear video way to go Canadian journalism.
8.VCJD- To this day there is no proven link, even the kids doctor says that it is "likely". They have just found that the strain of CJD has changed since the BSE outbreak. Also if it was a definitive case Million in Europe would be affected and killed rather than barely a history total of over 100.
9. Test the meat make the packers cleaner. OK I guess having the packers test the blood of every cow for Prions is not enough. I guess using one knife to take out the brain and spine and then using a new one on the next cow is not enough. I guess disinfecting those knives is not, I guess bleeding the meat out is not enough, I guess steaming them is not enough, I guess all of these standard practices before the meat hits the line is not good enough. I also guess having employees change clothing and footwear before entering the plant is also not good nor is having the meat plant and abattoir separate a good idea. All of this leads to infected meat and dirty meat.
10. That kid's e-coli story, I guess despite all this, e-coli in meat is still our number one concern. There is no way e-coli can get in any other source in Canada and our history has proven this. So we'll only worry about meat because we never cook meat and the only way to rid e-coli is to boil water and meat is not water.
11. Radiation. There is not a maximum residue set??? Radiation causes cancer I guess that makes sense. Now I can go to my X-ray knowing I never ate some infected cow and since their is no maximum I'll get extras done so I know what all my bones look like. I do agree with the guy that said its unnecessary but it's only b/c the packing plants are clean, I have been to the largest one in Sask and a smaller one and the mandatory conditions are immaculate while each place exceeded the governed laws.
12.We pack cows and pigs to tightly. In relation to their size a cow has more space than a person who lives in New York City. There is less square footage per capita in NYC then there is in any feedlot. Granted the city moves upwards, yet the average 2 person place is only 1 000 square feet families of 4 or 5 people will live in these places. I am guessing that a cow gets similar space.

Now all of this is why I am embarrassed. This show is a disgrace to fine journalism and a poor excuse of a Micheal Moore film. Not only am I upset by that but I am also upset by the fact that the film pool would not only play these films but have the want to promote it in a province and country who relies heavily on this sector of the job market. It is a job that is very much needed and instead of standing behind it the hippies at the Pool and at the broadcasters would rather destroy it for some unknown agenda, vegetable love or entertainment. It is truly disgusts me and I have no use for slander for slander's sake, political smear campaigns and this shitty news report.

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