Fairlife Milk Products
Fairlife Milk Products - As far as I can tell, there is no country of origin listed that I can find any where on the website, but these milk products appear to be made from American dairy sources.
It's about choice, I realize that, but I will do all I can to avoid purchasing American products and I will try to inform as many people as I can when I find what I think are American products trying to pass themselves off as Canadian. These products are "packaged" or "processed" in Canada but not produced here. Again, your choice. |
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Agreed 100%. No matter what your thoughts are on Supply Management, labelling should be clear for us to know the source.
I like supporting Canada. It's why I only buy French's Ketchup now. |
I wonder if anybody ever buys this. Did you see the price? Crazy!
I fully support Canadian dairy unless it's cheese where they still can't get the good European cheeses done here. |
And here I am trying to find American dairy
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Just google "Alberta dairy products" and support local farmers.
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Made in Quebec. Buy two!
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I wish that province would slide into the ocean. |
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Funny when you go to the canadian site, and click on contact us, it goes to the coke company site, crazy who owns what
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I do find it ironic that the Quebec dairy producers expect us to purchase their products, as they purchase Saudi oil, and protest our oil industry. If it's fair to put huge tariffs on American dairy products, it is also fair to place similar tariffs n Saudi oil.
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I agree labeling laws need to change and made more clear. Honey for example has huge writing on the front of the container saying CANADA #1. Means nothing other than a color grade and packaged in Canada. There may be no Canadian honey in that container. Read the fine print.
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All the links at the bottom of the fairlife website lead to the coca cola co. Fairlife is an affiliate of coca cola. I drink coke. Lots of it. I would have no problem drinking their milk. I oppose supply management, government subsidies and being told what to buy. |
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Supply management had it's place 50 years ago when farmers were taking a few cans of cream to town in the back of their pick up, but modern dairy farms can certainly compete in a laissez faire market. |
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milk prices
I have a real problem with families in Canada needing to pay $7.00 for 4 liters of milk for their kids when normal price is $2.00 to $ 3.00 in US. Our grand children will be a lot more healthy when families can afford lots of milk for strong bones in future.
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But american dairy farmers cant make a go of it? well that's too bad, you flood the market, but expect others to make up for it? Thats supply management at its finest. That's not capitalism.
Why is there no supply management in beef cows? If there are too many the price drops. Fewer and the people want to eat more, the price goes up. I have a huge problem with the government meddling in everything. if you want to support local, great if you want the cheapest great. The fact that I cannot go over to my nabour that is a dairy farmer and buy milk direct from him is complete crap. and that needs to change. The government telling me his milk is only safe if it gets cooked and changed at dairyland before I can drink it is totally ludicrous. But if I buy and cow and milk it there is no rule in place making that illegal, just it I get it from him. |
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Alright sorry don't have alot of time to lay out all the facts but I will lay out a couple.
First off Farmers and gov't do not set the price of the milk in the store. The store does that. Now you can say that because the price is set for farmers in Canada that it then reflects to a higher price in the stores. However almost all empirical evidence contradicts that. Namely there are areas in the USA where farmers get paid the same and the milk may be cheaper in store, likewise there are farmers who get paid less in Australia and the price can be more. As of 2014 Canada ranked somewhere around #50 for price of milk worldwide. For the Gentleman who buys milk for $7 for 4 litres... yo crazy haha Canada allows under supply management greater access to their dairy market than the USA does. Many people tout that American milk is cheaper but forget that A:conversion rate and B:they pay for it through subsidies which are paid by collected taxes. So either you pay at the pump or pay the gov't and he will use your money to "pay at the pump" Virtually every country that has removed supply management has seen a decrease in their dairy industry, one outlier that is often touted is New Zealand which had a massive problem with their national economy when dairy went through a slump out there btw. To my knowledge there has never been a country that after removing supply management has seen a decrease in the price of milk in the store, in fact most have seen an increase. While at the same time Almost every country that has removed supply management has seen a decrease in price to producer. So where does this money go? To the processor ie Saputo (that's why they are pushing so hard to remove supply management). As for pushing up land prices if you look up rural versus urban land prices they have risen at very similar rates over the years, implying not that dairy may be pushing up rural but rather a nationwide trend for all land. (some very local cases may be outliers) Oh yes many of the European countries that had removed supply management have now implemented a crafty new approach that is basically supply management but under the label of manure management. hmm what else was brought up? I will say I am not in the dairy industry myself however I am well versed in the global industry as a whole. Also I am a capitalist at heart so a part of me doesn't like supply management, however I have studied the alternatives and they seem to be detrimental to producers and only beneficial to processors with no change to consumers. The best solution I have been able to see is bringing in more competition for processors as in Canada there are basically 2 major players Now if anyone has any factual evidence I am willing to listen, but I do not have the time to link all my sources so good luck googling. cheers |
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Maple syrup is the same. Most of it says 'made in Canada' - no mention of quebek but 90% comes from quebek.
When they start to buy from AB I'll consider buying from quebek! |
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