DAILY examines Saskatchewan’s UCP premier Scott Moe and Minister Cockrell’s defiance of federal environmental officials illegally sampling farmers’ dugouts, threatening legal action under new trespass laws. This clash mirrors Western resistance to federal overreach—nitrogen rules, carbon taxes, gun bans—while the host debunks anti-dairy propaganda, citing nutrient gaps in plant-based alternatives and the dairy industry’s hollow "net zero" compliance. From USDA persecution of Amish farmer Amos Miller to activist-driven policies, the episode reveals how government interference undermines both agriculture and public health, pushing misguided dietary mandates under the guise of environmentalism. [Automatically generated summary]
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Farmers Under Surveillance00:10:38
I think that's it.
Adam, did you look at the live stream topics?
Because I obviously did not.
I did very, very briefly.
Lots of stuff to get into.
Obviously, today's a bit of an Alberta-focused show.
But I first want to look to our very often like-minded neighbor, Saskatchewan, with these feds poking around on farmers' land.
I think this is an issue you could probably speak to at length and with great passion.
But let's take a look at this article, I guess, right off the bat and talk about it a little bit and then go from there.
Yeah.
Oh, thank you, everybody who prepared the show today for opening with something that I actually know what I'm talking about.
So that's great.
I think you're in good shape today.
You're in God.
Oh, gosh.
Okay, great.
Because I wrote this up yesterday.
I had seen previously, and frankly, this happens more than people know.
And it's just really nice to see that Saskatchewan is fighting back.
So what happened was it was posted online.
A farmer showed a tweet of, and I think we included the tweet in the story, of these Ministry of the Environment feds poking around, taking what they said were water samples from private dugouts.
So they're accessing farmers' lands without permission and then stealing samples of their water without telling them why, unless you catch them and then they cook up an excuse.
And so the Saskatchewan government, they're having none of this, absolutely none of this.
And the feds are extra stupid to have tangled with Saskatchewan on this issue because Saskatchewan is spoiling for a fight with the feds on the nitrogen fertilizer issue and the carbon tax and the gun grab.
So they're ready to stand up to the feds.
So Scott Moe is the premier of Saskatchewan Conservative Saskatchewan Party.
He retweets this article from Minister Cockrell.
Now, Minister Cockrell, he is the Minister of Waterways in Saskatchewan.
And he's like, hey, what the heck are you people doing?
Not only that, we want to know why you're doing it.
And we are considering enforcement against you.
We are considering charging you with trespass under the law.
And again, exceedingly stupid that Saskatchewan or that the feds would do this in Saskatchewan because Saskatchewan, I think about a year and a half ago, they just recently strengthened their trespass laws.
Basically, even if you're a mailman and you do anything but drop the mail and run away, you could be charged with trespass.
So they're very, very strong, as strong as you can be in a country which really doesn't have property rights.
They're doing their best to legislatively ensure property rights, particularly for rural people.
That's why the law came into effect because they were dealing with people who were just trespassing on rural properties, thinking, oh, this is a farmer's land, but his house is over there.
What does he even care if I go on this land, you know, besides biosecurity and, you know, just stay off my land?
It's none of your business.
Saskatchewan strengthened this up.
So now they're threatening the feds with trespass and charging them.
They've also, they also have a hotline where people can call and report a Fed for trespassing on your land.
And all of this, all of this should come as no surprise because you know who the Ministry of the Environment?
Well, the minister himself, he was charged with mischief and trespass for scaling the CN Tower in Toronto and dropping a Greenpeace banner.
So is it really any surprise that members of the ministry, ministry staff were out there trespassing on farmers' land?
It's from the top down, my friend.
And this definitely speaks to sort of a broader issue of law enforcement looking more like, I don't know, some South American questionable corrupt police force than what we've conventionally thought of as police.
Now, that being said, I think people taking a good hard look at the RCNP might suspect that we've been there for some time.
But under Justin Trudeau, the sentiment that authorities, police can do whatever they want and they're not subject to the laws of the land when they're enforcing the law has certainly escalated.
And people, these authorities, whether it's trampling old ladies with mobility, scooters, harassing reporters, calling them Jew media, shooting tear gas canisters at Alexa Lavois.
The authorities have been getting away with, I mean, not quite murder, but bordering up on it in some pretty questionable ways, maybe even in some cases.
So it would be great to see a province, particularly a Western province, being like, no, you're actually not exempt from the laws just because you're a federal officer or operating on behalf of the federal government.
And in fact, we'll see you in court because we're charging you with trespassing.
I would absolutely love to see that, a metric of accountability, because frankly, authorities should be held to the highest possible standards and be doing everything by the book.
And there should be an additional degree of scrutiny, whether that's politicians or law enforcement.
And hopefully that's what we're seeing here.
Again, I'd be surprised to see anything happen.
It seems like it's carte blanche with little consequences, but heaven forbid you show up at a protest, a peaceful protest in a truck.
That's not allowed.
Trespassing someone's property, that seems to be a-okay.
Good to see the sort of Western sentiment, that Western frustration, the desire for sovereignty and independence sort of manifesting in politics where you have actual leaders of provinces doing more than just exclusively writing a letter, but threatening potentially even legal action.
No, I think it's great.
And a hotline where you can report a Fed.
But I wonder how Stephen Gilbeau would appreciate if some farmers just barged into his constituency office and started using the taps.
Because, I mean, if he could steal our water, we'll just show up and steal his.
No questions, no ask.
We're just here inspecting the water and see how he likes it.
You know, these people, they're the first Gilbo.
If you were a conservative and you lingered maybe a little bit too long on the sidewalk in front of his house, by the way, I don't like when people protest at politicians' houses.
But if you did, guess what he would do?
Call the cops immediately, even if you were on a public sidewalk.
I guarantee you he would.
Heaven forbid you prayed a block away from an abortion clinic.
Yeah.
But they can just come on your land.
They can just come on your land.
By the way, they don't know what's like, I don't know what it's like in where you live, but I know that, you know, a lot of new crops are tested in and around where I live.
And so they don't know what's in your field that they're trudging across to access your dugout.
By the way, why are you accessing my dugout?
What are you testing for?
Are you testing for high nitrogen levels so that you can say, oh, high nitrogen levels in this dugout that they probably use to irrigate the field, so it doesn't even matter.
Are you testing for high nitrogen levels so you have an excuse to impose nitrogen targets on farmers?
Because, oh, look, this has made its way into a waterway.
It's a dugout.
It's an enclosed waterway.
It's not getting anywhere.
But so what are they doing?
What are you testing for?
Well, and then there are other concerns that people may not be familiar with if they're not in the sort of agricultural communities.
But I mean, people who have boats are more than aware that it's very easy to transport invasive species that maybe that region is not equipped.
So these feds are touring the country.
I know even in my community, TELUS is currently installing fiber optics underground to boost everyone's internet.
And they're actually, there's a cinch bug epidemic destroying everyone's grass.
And it's actually TELUS moving them.
They're getting into their equipment and they're moving to the next site and it's spreading.
So imagine that that's just our grass.
Imagine that happening to a crop because some agent decides he wants to go around and provide some bogus justification for nitrogen limits and fertilizer limits.
It's really hard.
It'd be very rose-colored glasses to imagine that they're doing this for noble and then helpful purposes for the best interests of the farmers.
I don't think anyone would buy that narrative for a second.
The fact is, if some sort of testing needs to be done, if it's justified, you need to talk to the farmer.
You need to go through those proper steps.
You need to do all that stuff.
And frankly, most farmers are pretty reasonable.
If you're like, listen, no, we're doing some generic testing for this purpose.
We're working on something.
Farmers, okay, sure, no problem.
Just make sure you don't go over that part.
But no, these guys just drive out there, do whatever they please.
Complete disrespect for these people's private property.
And yeah, it's just another in the latest sort of piling on of issues of lack of respect from the federal governments for people out west who are.
And I mean, frankly, I mean, this would, this would frankly offend farmers anywhere.
If there was agents suddenly in my backyard doing ground samples without speaking to me, I wouldn't be happy about it either.
And that's effectively what this is tantamount to.
So not good.
And yeah, good to see some pushback, as we mentioned.
Yeah, I would be off the rev limiter if I found these people on my property.
And there's another issue here that, again, I don't think city people know, but farmers are acutely aware of this.
So some waterways are under federal jurisdiction, but not all waterways.
And I'm pretty sure your dugout isn't.
But the federal government expands what qualifies as a waterway all the time to control what you can do on your property.
There was a huge, it happens in the United States and it happens in Canada.
If you get a puddle that somehow like forms just a spring drainage puddle on your driveway, but it somehow connects to a stream and that stream somehow connects eventually, depending on runoff and rain that year, to a river, well, your puddle might actually fall under federal jurisdiction.
And so, if you need to trench your driveway to drain your puddle so that you aren't losing your hubcaps every time you get to your drive or to your garage, you might have to take it up with the feds.
And that's the problem here.
So, once they start poking around on your dugout and all of a sudden your dugout is under federal jurisdiction, then everything else in and around that dugout can end up near federal jurisdiction.
And it's just an expand, they use waterways as an expansion of government power all the time.
And we're seeing it right now.
And I'm so happy Saskatchewan's fighting back.
Yeah, that's great.
Dairy's Environmental Impact00:10:09
All right.
Do you want to talk dairy farmers or do we want to get into this leave them alone camping?
You know what?
Let's talk dairy farmers just for a second because this sort of segues into leave them alone.
Yeah.
So the war, again, I think regular viewers of the show know that I think that ruminants are man's best friend.
I like my dog just fine, but I think ruminants are one of those things that really are the essential for human health because they take the things that we can't eat and turn it into things that we can.
And, you know, there's B12 and there's a whole host of things.
And as there's a war on meat simultaneously happening, there's a war on dairy.
And there's this article right now in the Globe and Mail.
And basically they're saying why it might be a good time to ditch dairy.
And the article goes on to say that high inflation, food inflation, might actually be a good time for you to say, well, maybe I'll just ditch dairy altogether.
And since I can't afford milk and cheese, and I'll just drink the, I guess, the nut water that's lying about being milk, you know, like whatever, almond milk, whatever, I'll just drink that.
It's just nut sweat.
I mean that, I mean that in the kindest of ways.
Clip it, clip it.
Clip it.
But that's really what it is.
You just pour water over like cashews and almonds.
That's not milk.
That doesn't have cows.
They squeeze them.
They milk them.
They're like little nipples.
Yes.
It doesn't have B12.
Like this is just going off the rails already.
But so this person argues, a dietitian, by the way, which is insane, argues that maybe you should stop eating dairy altogether because it costs too much.
But that's good news because now you can eat all these other things that actually, by the way, that actually costs more money, by the way.
The milk replacements actually cost more money than the actual milk.
It's like this article was written by nobody, somebody who's never bought groceries before for a family of five.
And so again, it's funny because as I was attempting to like towel my hair before I came downstairs, I was listening to a dairy farmer talk about, and he was debunking the myths of veganism about milk, like that the animals are stressed and blah, blah, blah, blah.
And so that stress hormones like cortisol get passed into the milk and that affects human health.
Cows don't lactate if they're stressed.
They have to be in a calm, safe situation before their milk lets down.
So that's just a total lie.
It's like these people have never been to a dairy farm where it's just like you can walk up and hug a cow.
They're not stressed out.
This is what they do.
This is the cow's job.
And then like further to that point, for people who maybe don't know this, like if you watch the Stampede, everyone's ripping around on horses.
They're roping.
They're fast tying them.
That's a sport.
Real sort of ranching where you're getting the cattle to the truck, every time that cow runs, it's sweating, which is losing weight, which is costing you money.
So, if everything is going properly, no one should be working hard while you're rounding up cattle because you're supposed to basically, if you work hard or you're running or you're roping, it's because something has gone awry and you're losing weight on that animal.
The other thing, too, is if they are high stress, that meat tenses up.
So, if you're running really aggressive wrangling and you're stressing these cows out, you're going to have bad quality meat and you're going to get paid less for it because they're sweating off that weight.
So, whether it's dairy or beef, the cowboys are making and the ranchers, farmers are making every effort to keep those animals as relaxed as possible.
Yeah, this is crazy.
This article goes on to cite the Canadian food guide, which is a disaster.
Once they started publishing food guides, human health took a real serious turn for the worse.
Everybody ends up on statins and medication and diet, every like a serious spike in diabetes and health-related issues, heart-related issues, once people started following the food guide.
But then they go on to say that dairy is a high impact on the environment.
Um, cows go and eat grass, then their manure seeds the grass, and it's just like a perfect circle of life.
Um, and we get to eat the cows along the way, plus, we get to drink their dairy and leather cars, leather seats, all the good stuff, leather seats, yeah.
And so, again, ruminants, magical animals, they're the unicorn, really.
Of if there were such a thing as a unicorn, it would be a cow.
But this person goes on to complain about the eco-footprint of dairy production.
But tell me about the eco-footprint of an almond farm.
You know, farming has ecological impacts, that's just how it is.
But cows seed the pasture, sequester carbon, if you care about those sorts of things.
But raising the natural environment to plant almond trees and cashew trees or whatever people are soy farms, whatever, that also has an ecological impact.
Let's not pretend that farming, human agriculture, doesn't have an ecological impact, and that's fine.
But saying one is better than the other is probably not an ideal argument here.
No, it's it's baseless and it's an attack, and it's it's so interesting.
The because very often you see the dairy industry, you go to like whether it's the ag haul at Stampede or sort of their lobby groups, they're they're all they have these commercials about how they're net zero.
They're pandering so hard to these groups to try and be on board with them.
But I mean, the very influential dairy farmers associations need to get on board with being proud of their product and stop playing these political games.
This is very reminiscent of the conversation I had with Danielle Smith about even the use of the word net zero.
And she was like, Well, I'm saying it because the industry is saying it, but I'm like, The industry is saying it because they feel like they have to.
And she even said, Well, maybe we shouldn't be doing this, but we need like, I don't think the ranchers, like cattle ranchers broadly will be buying into this.
Uh, but the dairy farm needs to say, you know what, go fly a kite.
Like, we make this an excellent product.
Um, we're valuable contributors to the economy on the global scale compared to some of these other countries, which frankly, I don't even know how much they're affecting the climate, but we're affecting, we're not contributing meaningful pollution to the environment compared to some of these other countries.
And you want me to stop drinking milk so that what it's like a virtue signal categorically.
This can have if every Canadian stopped drinking milk, stopped consuming dairy, we'd lose a bunch of money.
There'd be a bunch of farmers out of business, and it would make no difference whatsoever.
I'm also sick of this.
Bring on the rickets, by the way.
Bring on the rickets.
Yeah.
Well, and I'm so sick of this mentality that because the government is spending out of control, because they can't bring costs and because there's supply issues because of the net management across the board, whether it's the United States, Canada, or overseas, that we should just start sacrificing sort of fundamental components of our lives and that that's the solution.
We don't need to get rid of milk, we need to get rid of Justin Trudeau, plain and simple.
And I'm sick of being told, oh, no more fuel cars, no more milk, no more this, no more that, no more beef, no more.
Like, we, why are we for generations?
We saw collective general improvements, we saw better health, longer lifespans, and now suddenly all those things-availability of meat, high-protein diets, all those things that have largely accommodated and facilitated increased lifespans, they're taking them away gradually and making things worse.
That's not the direction we're supposed to be heading.
Yeah, why do I have to give up cheese?
Because Justin Trudeau won't stop spending other people's money.
Like, that's really what the first argument being made here is.
And then they say, they actually admit, though, that milk is probably essential to human health.
So they say, though milk does contain nutrients that human needs, such as humans need, such as protein and calcium, those nutrients are not unique to dairy and can be easily found in other foods, except those foods are not all that easy.
For example, a cup of dairy milk provides about eight grams of protein, okay, which is about the same as two tablespoons of peanut butter.
Okay, tell me the carbon impact of peanut butter now.
Um, and a half a cup of lentils.
Okay, Canadians grow lentils, but that's gut busting, or a quarter of a block of tofu.
Okay, similarly, a quarter cup of chia seeds, two cups of cooked greens, such as bok choy or collards, one cup of calcium, calcium fortified.
So they have to fortify the plant milk, which is not milk, to make it be like milk.
Why?
Why do you have to like chemically engineer things that aren't milk to behave like milk?
Why don't you just let us eat milk?
Just let us eat milk.
Why do all these other steps?
It's like when they do plant-based sausage, and it's like, well, just you did all this work to make it look like sausage.
Can't I just have the sausage?
It seems less labor-intensive if you care about that sort of thing.
Yeah, well, Norm McDonald has a whole bit about this: about like you don't see like meats forming themselves into the countenance of other things, it's only vegetables pretending to be meat because people want meat.
And to go back to something earlier, the sort of food pyramid that is based largely on the USDA pyramid originally set out, I think it was in the 70s, which, by the way, when that came out, that's when we saw the onset of mass diabetes, obesity, all this stuff, which by the way was instituted by the Department of Agriculture, who were selling wheat and then told you you'd eat a ton of wheat, unlike all heavily influenced, by the way, heavily influenced by the likes of Kellogg's.
The Weight Loss Deception00:03:13
Seriously, you know, but so it's incredible, though.
There is, there is something I'm going to do a shout out.
It's not a formal endorsement or anything, but there's a really interesting series by Jimmy Aiken, who I've probably mentioned before called Mysterious World.
And he talks about like, I don't know, weird topics, like our ghosts real.
It's very faith and reason.
So it's kind of a Catholic lens.
So he'll present like Skinwalker Ranch and then he'll say, is this plausible?
What makes sense?
What doesn't?
He actually does one because he was quite overweight and he went through a significant journey.
And the episode's called The Mystery of Weight Loss.
And he goes through this at such length, the extent to which, and he's not very conspiratorially minded, but the lengths to which they just completely subverted all common sense, the general understanding of people and how to lose weight and become healthy throughout all of history.
It was really flipped on its head with the onset of this USDA sort of food pyramid guide.
And people 100% accepted at the behest of government health officials and their sound advice that this is how you get healthy.
Well, since then, people haven't been able to get healthy really, unless people categorically reject this government advice from this food pyramid and take on these other forms of diets.
In fact, there's concerted efforts to undermine other diets that even if they even if they work.
So it's incredible, but it's a really big sort of in-depth look at lots of the podcasts are interesting.
There's some really interesting topics, but that one speaks to this topic so directly.
I was going to try and get him on at some point.
I should reach out to him again to talk about that, but very interesting stuff.
Yeah.
You know, I was watching, you know, I'm just my YouTube history is, you know what, Adam, if I get murdered, delete it.
But I was, I'm subscribed to a YouTube channel called Low Carb Down Under, because in Australia, there's this group of doctors who they actually, you know, they test their theories.
Some of them are psychologists and how like the spikes in blood sugar affect the mental health of young people.
And so they have like these doctors from different parts of medicine, sports physiologists, and they sort of come together for these conferences and these talks.
And I was like, I saw this name.
Last name was Bickman.
I was like, what the heck?
Wild Rose MLA Gary Bickman.
I think it's either his brother or his son, who's like a huge doctor in the like low-carb space that like debunking the myths of sugar in sports performance.
And I think he's at Brigham Young University in the United States.
But I was like, wow, all my lives have just intersected in one video.
It was very odd to stumble across that.
But, anyways, enough about my YouTube history.
Let's move on to this amazing petition done by our friend Jeremy Lafredo on the issue of dairy and the government getting things wrong and the government telling you what to eat when all the government has ever done is give you advice about how to get fat and be unhealthy and line the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry.
Amish Holistic Farming00:02:21
So Amos Miller is an Amish holistic farmer.
In fact, he farms exactly the way the government tells you to farm.
It's organic.
He doesn't use pesticides or at least chemical pesticides.
He doesn't use chemical fertilizers.
Everything that his farm needs is produced on the farm.
Very low carbon nitrogen.
Yeah.
And yeah, no tractors, by the way, no diesel.
This is like exactly the horrific way they want the rest of us to farm.
But he's making a go of it because he has this buyers co-op.
It's really a co-op.
They call it a private buyers club.
So he has these people who want to consume food grown the way he does.
And they're willing to pay for it naturally because to produce that food that way, it's very, very expensive and labor intensive, right?
So they have to pay a premium, but they want it and they don't want the USDA involved in any of it, right?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture don't want their inspectors in there.
They don't care.
They know how he grows it.
They know it's not inspected by the USDA.
They're actually willing to pay a premium for that.
And yet, the USDA is raiding his farm.
They're coming in with guns.
Like he's Amish, Pennsylvania Amish.
So pacifist as they can come turn the other cheek.
They don't fight.
They don't enlist in the military.
I'm pretty sure they don't even vote.
They, by and large, they don't use any sort of modern technology on their farms, although that can vary by community.
And so, but the feds are coming in and telling him that he has to stop producing the way that Christia Friedland would want us all to farm.
And see, they use teams of horses in the field.
Like, this is incredibly labor-intensive and your yields are so low.
But this is what, this is what they, this is how he farms.
And this is the people that people want to buy.
Syngenta.
Anyways, people want to, people want to buy from him, but the USDA, they're saying he can't, they're raiding the farm.
So Jeremy has a petition.
It's at leavethemalone.com to call on the federal government to stop persecuting Amos Miller for basically producing food that people want to buy without government involvement.