{"id":3307,"date":"2010-11-29T11:54:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2010-11-29T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:25:02","slug":"crackdown-on-the-freezer-trade-in-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/29\/crackdown-on-the-freezer-trade-in-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Home butchering crackdown in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live in the North Country long enough (as a meat-eater) and you’re likely to go in on a side of beef or split a lamb from a local farmer.<\/p>\n

The farmer raises the animal and has it butchered at a state-licensed “custom” slaughterhouse (these are a rung down from the USDA-certified slaughterhouse<\/a> that’s required to sell meat retail).\u00a0 The farmer then sells a quarter or a half or a whole of the animal to a willing buyer.\u00a0 That’s the informal freezer trade.<\/p>\n

The Ontario government is cracking down on a man who sidestepped that “custom slaughterhouse” part of the equation.\u00a0 Mark Tijssen butchered his own pig and shared the meat with a friend.\u00a0 According to the CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Under provincial law, people can slaughter an animal and consume the meat for personal use, but it is an offence to share that meat with others without being licensed.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Tijssen, who is representing himself in court, said the right to security of the person is protected in the charter and argued that buying commercially inspected meat can put his family at risk.<\/div>\n

“At the heart of the case is food choice,” said Tijssen, a major in the Canadian Forces who said his family has been slaughtering their own meat for generations, “our right to choose what we consume and to control what we consume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This issue runs along the lines of the raw milk wars.\u00a0 People assert the right to raise and grow and consume their own food.\u00a0 The fault line is when they cross that next step – sharing that food with other willing, consenting adults.<\/p>\n

At what point does that sharing become a public<\/strong> issue and therefore a food safety concern that’s subject to regulation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Live in the North Country long enough (as a meat-eater) and you’re likely to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,880,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}