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Originally Posted by Bonded
lol this is the strangest defence of supply management I have ever seen. Beef prices are not consistently higher in the US and will ebb and flow with demand and herd sizes.
You can argue that the US subsidizes agriculture and their poultry and dairy prices are artificially low but there is zero argument that Canada's supply management system places the burden on Canadian's to subsidize dairy and poultry producers.
Chicken should be the cheapest protein available but in Canada it is more expensive than pork which makes zero sense given their respective lifecycles and animal production methods. It should be Beef > Pork > Chicken.
Dairy is also crazy expensive and the cheese selection is sad.
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In the US subsidies to Dairy Farmers are about 35 cents CAD per liter we a report prepared by the dairy farmers of Canada. So likely a little biased.
https://m.realagriculture.com/2018/0...ys-new-report/
So stack that on US cost of milk and out milk is lower cost here. So whether we pay as tax payers or as consumers doesn’t really matter. Without Tariffs/supply management or subsides we wouldn’t have a dairy industry.
Could we get lower cost US subsidized Milk? Probably but now you are putting food security in the hands of a foreign power which is not a good idea.
So if you accept the first step that a poultry or dairy industry is required then their is no real difference between the supply management option and the subsidy option to the consumer.
