In one of the most bizarre–and phallic–government initiatives of the year, Canada’s Conservative government is spending $826,000 to address the growing epidemic of exploding sausages.
Cardinal Meat Specialists, an Ontario meat processing company, was recently awarded an $826,000 taxpayer investment to make their sausage more resilient and reduce premature sausage explosions.
The money “will help the company purchase new manufacturing equipment that will produce a higher quality sausage that is more resistant to splitting or bursting while cooking,” according to Agriculture Canada, adding that the technology to be used by Cardinal Meat Specialists has never before been used in Canada.
Speaking to Sun Media, Canadian Taxpayers Federation national director Gregory Thomas said of the government, “They say they’re for free trade and a free market, then they hand nearly a million taxpayer dollars to a sausage maker, so he can go out and gut his competition.”
Landmark Report‘s in-house foodie and Lifestyle Editor Sara Baxter was unfamiliar with the dilemma of exploding sausages, as was the sausage cart operator near our office, although he said he would welcome $800k.
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