GOVERNMENT'S MOTIVATION IS ALL ABOUT GREED

Editor:

I feel compelled to answer Bal S. Boora's letter (Herald, Jan. 10)
which asks Canadians to "ask the Harper government why it is so set
against the Canadian Wheat Board when the majority of farmers support
it. Whose interests are they representing?"

Stephen Harper and his pals are serving themselves. They are not
farmers. I doubt they have ever had soil under their fingernails in
their lives. However, it is very easy for them to get their
secretaries to look at sheets of paper and have them report back
which numbers equal greatest profit for their pockets.

If a wheat farmer receives fair payment for their crop, labour and
expenses, it means the federal government is not maximizing their
greed. They have looked at the savings they can make by selling us
genetically modified foods. If food is produced in a lab, there is no
farmer to pay. It is a prelude to what happened with our cattle
producers. The government scares the population into believing our
beef is contaminated (even though "mad cow disease" has been around
forever and cattle ranchers know how to deal with it). Now they are
introducing cloned cow meat. Government made dinner. They do not want
to label these "foods," yet they have not even been tested on primates.

Maybe they can't get a monkey to eat a clone burger. It's the same
reason Ms. Mryden who writes about "receiving minimal relief" for her
multiple sclerosis pain because the government allots her such
minimal amounts of legal marijuana. They want her buying 30 pills a
day from the "legal" drug dealers even though the pills do not
adequately relieve her suffering. Marijuana will never be legalized
because the government cannot control a plant or crop that can grow
in someone's yard or living room. Cigarettes and alcohol are
perfectly legal because they are made in government controlled labs.

What can an individual do? Don't be a consumer of things you don't
know much about. Don't take more medication to "numb yourself" out to
the reality of the forces against our natural health and well-being.
Do ask "how did people live before the British North American Act of
1867?" Uncontrolled, that's how. Not wildly, how we are taught to
believe, but honestly as respectful caretakers of the Earth.

Shannon Pahara

Lethbridge