Any Citizen Science meat inspectors on the list?

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

The government has cut Canada's food inspection agency,
many food inspectors have been let go,
and with there being horse and what not meat scandal in the UK,
it makes you wonder if we have the same issue here,
and what would happen if discoveries were made that were similar to those in the UK,
what would happen to our meat industry if that were so,
and how would the Government look if it were not capable of carrying out inspections because it cut the inspection agency.

Just sayin'
this sounds like a great Citizen Science project

 

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Here are some links to the cuts

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind-numbers/2012/10/budget-cuts-will-exacerbate-food-safety-issues
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2012/04/12/wdr-cfia-cuts-food-safety.html

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

The government has cut Canada's food inspection agency,
many food inspectors have been let go,
and with there being horse and what not meat scandal in the UK,
it makes you wonder if we have the same issue here,
and what would happen if discoveries were made that were similar to those in the UK,
what would happen to our meat industry if that were so,
and how would the Government look if it were not capable of carrying out inspections because it cut the inspection agency.

Just sayin'
this sounds like a great Citizen Science project

 

--

Tracey P. Lauriault

Post Doctoral Fellow

Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre

https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Lauriault

http://datalibre.ca/
613-234-2805
 

[Michael Lenczner-2]

And if there are any on the list and had a few extra minutes, I would
love to know a little bit more about you - you know, what a citizen
meat inspector does on an average day, how you are different from
rogue meat inspectors, etc.


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> The government has cut Canada's food inspection agency,
> many food inspectors have been let go,
> and with there being horse and what not meat scandal in the UK,
> it makes you wonder if we have the same issue here,
> and what would happen if discoveries were made that were similar to those in
> the UK,
> what would happen to our meat industry if that were so,
> and how would the Government look if it were not capable of carrying out
> inspections because it cut the inspection agency.
>
> Just sayin'
> this sounds like a great Citizen Science project
>
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[Ted Strauss]

What about a mobile app that lets citizens send reports/photos about meat quality

from their neighbourhood restaurants and butchers.

Some ideas for the name of the app: 

What's in that bun

The Carnivore's dilemma

Inspecteur Tartare 

(Just in case: this is intended only as a joke, there are many reasons such an app is a really bad idea.)

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:

And if there are any on the list and had a few extra minutes, I would
love to know a little bit more about you - you know, what a citizen
meat inspector does on an average day, how you are different from
rogue meat inspectors, etc.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> The government has cut Canada's food inspection agency,
> many food inspectors have been let go,
> and with there being horse and what not meat scandal in the UK,
> it makes you wonder if we have the same issue here,
> and what would happen if discoveries were made that were similar to those in
> the UK,
> what would happen to our meat industry if that were so,
> and how would the Government look if it were not capable of carrying out
> inspections because it cut the inspection agency.
>
> Just sayin'
> this sounds like a great Citizen Science project
>
>
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>
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[Heather Morrison-2]

MicroBEnet - citizen microbiology with a focus on germs - might be an interesting model:
http://www.microbe.net/category/citizen-science-2/

Heather Morrison

On 2013-02-13, at 11:09 AM, Ted Strauss wrote:

> What about a mobile app that lets citizens send reports/photos about meat quality
> from their neighbourhood restaurants and butchers.
> Some ideas for the name of the app:
> What's in that bun
> The Carnivore's dilemma
> Inspecteur Tartare
>
> (Just in case: this is intended only as a joke, there are many reasons such an app is a really bad idea.)
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> And if there are any on the list and had a few extra minutes, I would
> love to know a little bit more about you - you know, what a citizen
> meat inspector does on an average day, how you are different from
> rogue meat inspectors, etc.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > The government has cut Canada's food inspection agency,
> > many food inspectors have been let go,
> > and with there being horse and what not meat scandal in the UK,
> > it makes you wonder if we have the same issue here,
> > and what would happen if discoveries were made that were similar to those in
> > the UK,
> > what would happen to our meat industry if that were so,
> > and how would the Government look if it were not capable of carrying out
> > inspections because it cut the inspection agency.
> >
> > Just sayin'
> > this sounds like a great Citizen Science project
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > ---
> > Vous recevez ce message, car vous êtes abonné au groupe Google Groupes
> > Données Ouvertes Montréal.
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> > concernant, envoyez un e-mail à l'adresse
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> >
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