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Originally Posted by Firebot

Is this the point where we question scientists and researchers? Seems like QAnon alt right nonsense to me!

The research has to be theoretical...because the dairy cartel doesn't tell us the numbers discarded.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ont...y-milk-dumping

https://canadiangrocer.com/canada-ca...umping-problem

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/dai...d-19-1.5528331

Discarding milk to control pricing has been talked about very often over the years as we know it's a common practice.

Well which is it? Farms dumping milk in 2020 was headline news, but at the same time they are routinely dumping almost 10% of their production?

Anyway, the idea that no one publishes disposal numbers is obviously incorrect, as the the Dairy Farmers of Ontario published their disposal volumes in their annual reports, and pre-pandemic it averaged about 1-1.5% of production. That's about 80-85% lower than the study's estimate. And most milk isn't dumped completely; the cream is removed for other uses and just the skim milk is disposed.

Also, I just realized that one of the study authors is the so-called "Food Professor" Sylvain Charelebois. That makes me even more skeptical, as that guy basically functions as a mouthpiece for grocery monopolies.