Food Rights Declaration as result of the latest appeal ruling against Michael Schmidt — September 29, 2011

Michael Schmidt talks to supporters and media at last Tuesday's news conference
Agriculture has been the backbone of Canada. History has taught us that a healthy Agri-culture is able to feed all the people and therefore creates a healthy and socially stable enviroment.
At the turn of the last century 70% of our Canadian population was actively involved in farming.
Today we have only 2% of the poulation left working on farms and 80% of them have to have another job to keep their farm going.
The average age of today’s farmers is 56 and hardly any young farmer can afford to start farming.
Corporate farming has taken over food production and multi national corporations control most of the farming inputs, food processing and distribution.
Food safety regulations and production standards are passed based on intensive lobby powers by those who control the current food chain. Continue reading