🇨🇦 Dairy Farmer Forced to Dump Excess Milk By Government to Keep Prices High
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would need to understand the history behind the price controls but generally it has been done to benefit farmers. I agree it is stupid but it is also stupid for Senators like Grassley to push for clogging fuel injectors with ethanol to benefit US farmers
Also not the first time this shit has happened. Back in the 90s there were several stories of the same thing happening to grain/corn producers. For months the media banged on about hunger in Canada, the lack of sustainable food, etc - only for it to come out that several farmers had barns filled with grain and corn that was just rotting, because it was illegal for them to sell it..
And it was defended by liberals and "conservatives" alike.
It doesn't help farmers though, not even a little bit.
It helped farmers when there was a serious issue - which, if modern history is anything to go by the government probably caused in the first place - which why they took the "deal"(instead of starve). The rest, as they say, is history - and one that every hungry person on earth should regret.
This is also the kind of thing that the term "Government Cheese" came from.
The US took the surplus milk and had it made into barely edible cheese.
It was given out as part of the original welfare programs.
Excess was stored underground, and there's a ton today.
Government intervention is great, and now we have cartels smuggling eggs over the border.
Fucking peak clown world.
It's the dairy cartel in Canada in this case. There are three cartels up here: dairy, maple syrup, telecom.