Leave them alone, and they’ll come home….
It's been over 2 weeks. I miss my sheep, and my sheep are still missing...but still not safe. If and when Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) finds them—they will kill them. After 27 months of...
View ArticleEwes vs. Them
The owner of a rare heritage Shropshire sheep flock is taking Canada's Minister of Agriculture and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to court. Shepherd Montana Jones has filed a federal court...
View ArticleCFIA raids farm to seize and kill 9 Shropshire sheep
On Friday, April 27 at approximately 7:15 p.m., four CFIA agents and 2 security guards arrived at Montana Jones’ Hastings Ontario farm with an order for the destruction of 9 Shropshire sheep that...
View ArticleShepherd obtains false government document
PRESS RELEASE May 1st, 2012—Hastings, Ontario/The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) released a statement Friday claiming that a single sheep belonging to a quarantined Ontario farm has tested...
View ArticleWill CFIA endanger our future health by destroying a whole genotype?
"Sheep believed to be resistant to scrapie are succumbing to atypical infections and a newly identified strain of the disease. Eradication programmes based on selective breeding should be reappraised."...
View ArticleMedia fogwash
...well, I will have learned some pivotal lessons about human nature...some sad, some disheartening, but most are incredibly inspiring. The one powerful encouraging lesson I am realizing throughout, is...
View ArticleSheep found in Chesley, Ontario farm
The strange yarn of the fugitive flock – heritage sheep said to be related to the first sheep that came from England to Canada – is coming to a messy end after food inspection officials finally found...
View ArticleMichael Schmidt speaks out on CFIA’s slaughter of the Shropshire sheep
I have been asked by the Farmers Peace Corp to speak on their behalf on the sad occasion of today’s unnecessary killing of 31 rare sheep. I have no knowledge about the different people involved. I do...
View ArticleCFIA finds and kills rare heritage flock—ALL NEGATIVE for scrapie
CFIA test results are back... ALL NEGATIVE for scrapie, as I knew they would be. Killed for nothing, all those genetics gone. I do not believe for a moment that the CFIA alleged 15S ewe was a true...
View ArticleWake Up Call
Please Join our Wake Up call! Canada is closer and closer to losing it's Agricultural Biodiversity—SIGN THE PETITION to insist Canadian Food Inspection Agency stops killing rare heritage livestock...
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