Disease and Containment

Now isn't that interesting. I hear on the national news that the OSPCA are dealing with an outbreak of ringworm in one of their facilities. Apparently it is an aggressive form of the fungus and as a result 300 plus animals are being euthanized as they are unable to treat this. Does this not prove the fact that close quarters for ANY animal/species is definitely not good?

The State of Affairs

Well, it looks like things are progressing very nicely for the sociopathic corporations and those who believe in total control of the people. We have the Federal Governments Department of Fisheries and Oceans telling us that fish farms are the cats meow for the employment and economy of the small west coastal communities and that to ban them would be ludicrous. The mayor of Port McNeil also said that banning fish farms would be a determent to the economy and the lives of people. NOTHING has been said about banning fish farms, what has been said is ban OPEN PEN fish farms and turn to a sustainable closed containment operation. Here we have a case of a black and white option and in order to defend the $'s the corporations will be losing = tax $'s, we MUST defend what is such a great plan on paper. We have the DFO turning a blind eye to the lice problem and the disappearance of the west coast salmon. According to them, all the paperwork and charts show them that there is not a problem, yet they will not believe the hands on proof... the commercial fishery which has dried up in the last 3 years... packing boats coated with lice.... lice being spilt from boxes transporting fish to the processing plant. We have a government veterinarian that would not release information to those that asked pertinent questions... 'Ask the farmer' was his reply. His 'released' report shows he thinks 'inside' the box... the box being the fish farm. His report shows an excellent salmon harvest with very little sign of sea lice and no observable problems. His report is for the corporation running the show and for those who believe open pen farms are safe. Look 'outside' the box and see what damage is being done outside. How can you say that the lice problem is brought about by the wild salmon on one hand and yet on the other say that salmon and lice have lived together for eons? Why is it now that there is a huge lice problem that even the Natives are concerned about? It should be common knowledge that if you keep any animal in close quarters, in order to keep sickess and disease away, you have to medicate, and if a disease does get loose, the whole flock/herd has to be disposed of. Does it not make sence that you bring in a foreign species, ie Atlantic Salmon, and pen them all up, that a few lice soon multiply, and by the way, how can immature salmon smolt have ADULT lice on them in order to populate the fish farms?
We have Harper slandering and throwing out of government a member because 'he does not like her husband'. How dare a democratic government make up stories that have absolutely no basis in fact and not even inform said member of what she did!
We have the Campbell government of taking a vote to stop discussion on the HST in order to speed up the process of getting the bill passed before the July 1st deadline of implimentation. The province is well on its way of getting the required number of signatures on petitions. Now, will the Government accept this petition as being valid? or will they come up with some way of invalidating it in order to impose their will.