British Columbia Legislature 42nd Parliament, 3rd Session (2022) Statements, 24 Feb 2022

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From YouTube: FEBRUARY 24 2022 Statements Ellis Ross

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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament

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Member farskina, thank you, mr speaker. Sometimes you take for granted where our food comes from kieran christensen. Doesn't that's why the 31 year old entrepreneur wants to take her family legacy farm into the 21st century.

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Daybreak farms is sole producer of eggs in northwest british columbia and kieran, like her father before understands food security and the need to supply nutritious food to remote and northern bc communities.

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Daybreak farms supplies eighth, the major supermarkets, independent groceries and restaurants throughout the region. All the feed is natural with no added antibiotics and produces white brown and omega-3 and free-run eggs and is certified by the safe quality food institute.

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But kieran knows the farm needs upgrades to reduce the environmental footprint and meet current industry standards. That is why kieran is planning a substantial 10 million dollar modernization project to consolidate operations and replace the pit manure system.

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This move is also proactive. As the british columbia farm ministry review board ruled that producers can no longer renovate and install conventional systems like the one at daybreak farms and those systems need to be replaced by cage-free or enriched systems. By july, 1st 2036 daybreak farms is applied to the city of terrace for a zoning amendment and is now anticipating a public hearing, and hopefully this daybreak farms gets the go ahead and a couple of and a couple of egg salant facts to know.

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That's clever, excellent world egg day celebrated every october and this year will be friday october 14th. It is also alleged that kieran married darcy mckeown a few days ago on top of mountain.

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I say alleged because I saw it on facebook, but I will confirm it for the house if it's true congratulations to kieran and darcy, and hopefully the celebrations include the approval of the much needed improvements of daybreak farms. Thank you, mr speaker.