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Originally Posted by trapperdodge
The dairy quota system is a tax on the poor. Three price increases in the past year have led to a decrease in dairy consumption. It's the poor who can't afford to purchase dairy products. The protected dairy producers dump milk in order to keep prices high.
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This is partially false.
A:farmers don't set the price in store
B:Of course they will get price increases as costs go up, same as most industries costs have gone up.
C:they don't dump milk to keep prices high, they produce the amount of milk that is consumed in Canada, that is how the quota system works. So if ppl consume less dairy the farmers get their amount of quota reduced. So they have every desire to keep ppl consuming dairy.
D: Of course they don't know how much milk is dumped as every fresh cow gets it's milk held back or "dumped" ie fed to calves as well as any time you give a cow antibiotics you cannot ship the milk so it gets dumped as well but none of that is recorded so it would be impossible to know how much is dumped.
E: A tax on the poor? It's inflation. Just like some have reduced beef consumption or eating out etc.