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When you consider that the price of milk is artificially kept at around $4.40 for 4 liters because the Milk Marketing Board pays farmers to pour half the milk they produce down the drain in order to keep it a lucrative industry for the few that can afford their quota, then yes, I do think farm subsidies need to go.
When you consider that the price of milk is artificially kept at around $4.40 for 4 liters because the Milk Marketing Board pays farmers to pour half the milk they produce down the drain in order to keep it a lucrative industry for the few that can afford their quota, then yes, I do think farm subsidies need to go.
I have a serious reservations about it. The problem is that it largely benefits rural economies at the expense of urban consumers, and the urban areas are so completely navel gazing and ignorant about anything to do with agriculture or rural issues that the average joe has no idea about the issues surrounding farm subsidies and therefore cannot put much public pressure on government either way due to this ignorance.
When you consider that the price of milk is artificially kept at around $4.40 for 4 liters because the Milk Marketing Board pays farmers to pour half the milk they produce down the drain in order to keep it a lucrative industry for the few that can afford their quota, then yes, I do think farm subsidies need to go.
That is not accurate. In Canada the marketing board provides quotas to each dairy farmer. There is NO monetary return for a dairy farmer to over produce. It's all part of the supply management system that they have set up. Also BGH is illegal in Canada and Europe.
However in the U.S. dairy farmers are paid for any milk they do not sell. Hence the frequent use of the Bovine Growth Hormone to increase milk production. During the fiscal crisis, or ongoing fiscal crisis, there was concern in the U.S. that the subsidized dairy industry would lose those subsidies and milk would go over $7.00 a U.S. gallon. That did not happen....yet.
This is one take on the situation in Canada.
I helped Canada's maple industry by cooking oatmeal with maple syrup this morning. Mmm mmm good!
Good quality maple syrup goes on anything! Try a bit poured over vanilla ice-cream. I use it also on oatmeal (porridge ) but usually brown sugar on oatmeal is what I got as a kid.
Can you get maple cookies down there?
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