THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
VOL. 91 | NO. 37 | $4.25
Red tape nightmare The battle to bring bison to Newfoundland | P. 82
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Food inspectors raid Man. farm Mixed messages | Inspectors remove meat from farm business despite issuing licence to produce it BY ED WHITE WINNIPEG BUREAU
A raid and seizure of farm-made meat products from a southwestern Manitoba farm has local food advocates bewildered by the mixed signals coming from government. No one is more bewildered than Clinton Cavers, the farmer who saw
Manitoba Agriculture inspectors swoop in on his farm, seize its awardwinning cured meats and issue him a ticket for allegedly selling it without regulatory approval. “It came out of left field,” said Cavers a few days after the Aug. 28 raid, as he and his family tried to figure out how to go forward with their plans to keep making prosciutto and
other raw, cured meat products on their Pilot Mound farm. “We didn’t feel we were doing anything wrong.” The Caverses have been producing small amounts of specialty meat products such as prosciutto, which is raw, dried, salted ham relished by foodies, for more than two years. There is hot demand for the prod-
ucts, which fit into both the growing urban “foodie” culture of gourmet cooking and the local food movement, which promotes sourcing as many food products as possible from local farmers. The Caverses’ product has fared well with foodies. SEE INSPECTORS RAID FARM, PAGE 2
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Greg Monteith makes the turn at the end of the field while combining wheat late in the evening in High River, Alta., Aug. 30. |