Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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If I were seeking a charity to donate to, I can't think of a more worthy one than Maple Leaf Foods; to make bacon - that shining choice of nutritionists everywhere. Thanks to our politicians for so wisely investing our hard-earned tax dollars in such a "needy" venture. All the while, I imagine Manitoba's child poverty rate continues to remain high, as usual. At least now they can eat bacon. I have come up with a 3-word "title" for our "leaders," federal and provincial. "Category Five Morons."
Killing and economy and the price of pork. Government(s) are far too generous with taxpayers dollars. Maple Leaf should not be entitled to our money for any expansion, and the production increase will only mean further problems for our environment, Lake Winnipeg and waters in Manitoba and other provinces. To meet this bacon production increase being pushed up by 8 million kilograms will require an additional 8 hundred thousand butcher hogs on the killing line. What will the value added concept be?.....the additional untreated waste that will be created to further threaten provincial waters.? The waste equivalent of of 4 million people. Is this the investment pay back, many times over.?
This subsidy would have been better spent helping to clean -up the most polluted Lake in all the world.