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To: ManyMoose who wrote (89538)	11/24/2004 1:07:58 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I blame Dubya for this... LEDUC, ALTA. - It's looking like a showdown at an Alberta corral between a farmer who is offering hunters the opportunity to shoot one of his cows for $500 and the provincial government. Ed Wedman "For the price of a hot dog a day, you can feed a family of four for a year," Ed Wedman told CBC Newsworld Tuesday. Wedman has placed a newspaper ad enticing hunters to take a shot at his Holstein steers and then lug the beef home. The farmer says he's been losing money for 18 months because of the mad cow crisis, and he's tired of it. Dozens of countries, including the United States, closed their borders to live cattle from Canada after a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy was discovered in May 2003. "I, as a farmer, am selling beef. [Consumers] don't have to go to a store. You can go to a farmer and have it hauled to a slaughterhouse," said Wedman. Wedman says media attention has drawn many responses to his $100 newspaper ad – so much that his answering machine is full. Wedman's ad has also piqued the interest of Alberta Agriculture, though. Officials there say the farmer isn't allowed to invite hunters to kill cows on his property because he doesn't have a licence to run a slaughterhouse. Floyd Mullaney of the department's food safety division says a farmer can sell a live animal to a customer but can't have people killing animals on the property. Mullaney says it's a food safety issue, pointing out that meat packers spend about $1 million on their operations to meet provincial cleanliness and humane standards while killing and processing animals. Wedman faces a maximum fine of $10,000 and a year in jail if he goes through with his scheme. The farmer says he doesn't care, though. "I'm all for government inspections and more meat packers but the truth is, it's not getting rid of the cattle," he said. cbc.ca