Billions of litres of Canadian milk were discarded in the last 12 years. A new study says it has a massive impact
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/billions-of-litres-of-canadian-milk-were-discarded-in-the-last-12-years-a-new-study-says-it-has-a-massive-impact-1.7075470
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No, no. Cartels are good!
Pretty big waste. I highly doubt the dairy industry cares though as this ends up padding their bottom line.
This is how you get cheese caves
I love knowing this and paying 8.49 for 4L.
And the canadian citizens are paying for this even while food inflation is hurting us. This is messed up.
And people are going hungry here in Canada.
Supply management benefits a few. End it.
>…up to 7% of milk is discarded each year …
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>The discarded milk could have fed more than 4.2 million Canadians each year, or 11 per cent of the Canadian population, according to the study.
The math ain’t mathing.
It’s about time the tax payer does something about this… In my 40 years in this country never was it this bad on so many levels.
“Systemic inefficiencies” in Canada’s supply management system have led to billions of litres of milk going to waste since 2012, according to a new study published in the journal Ecological Economics.
Tell me again why we have this system? Because it seems to have had the exact effect economists predict with cartels and monopolies – ie wasteful, inefficient systems
Gotta keep the price stable and high! 🙌
Honest question. Can the cows drink their own milk?
I can think of one politician that spoke out about this, among other things, but Canada didn’t want to hear it.
Vote PPC.
They do the same with butter. The dairy board is a joke! But they say we need it!
And there are empty food banks. Some foods are commodities. Some aren’t. Feed the needy. It’s what Jesus would want.
And butter is $9 for butter with a low fat contest and full of palm oil that the farmers are gaming the system?
Thief’s
“In addition, researchers estimated that as much as 10 billion litres of milk was discarded, which contributed to “significant” land and water resource waste, and about 8.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions, or the amount of emissions from 350,000 passenger vehicles each year.”
That’s mind boggling.
Imagine 350,000 cars parked side by side in a field, all with the engines running on idle nonstop for a year. Thats the pollution that was created in order to produce milk for the purpose of dumping 100% of it.
Thats an entire small cities automobile populations worth of pollution being created annually not because society has a critical need and pollution is inevitable but literally for the sake of a profit margin.
That is a non story. Milk is not dumped except when they have no options for it. Either a truck can’t get through to pick it up fue to weather or some problem with production leads to milk being wasted.
Now, the US has estimates as high as 17 Billion liters, yearly. Is that the system people want?
If it was cubic metres, i would be impressed: a billion litres is four olympic pools… over 12 years? Are we talking spillage? contamination? too much blood in the milk and not enough chocolate milk demand? Dairy Queen demand of aged milk gone down? Or, are we saying dairy farmers are just throwing it away and sticking by milk prices?
I will never fathom why we couldn’t export overproduction. Our supply sanctioned quota is blundering a real opportunity here.
Had a Big Dairy client during the pandemic and remember them trying to downplay stories about milk dumping, not a good look on a few levels
As someone who has family who has been in the dairy game for over 20 years, it’s way worse than people realise. This article is just the tip of the iceberg.
Also fuck the quota system they use. It’s a cartel.
The Dairy Industry routinely destroys milk to drive up pieces. Pretty disgusting considering the resources used (water) and the toll on the animal (forced pregnancy). Probably time for a new system.
Not defending dairy or anything but basically every industry does this at all times. Its called artificial scarcity, and its to keep prices from dropping when production exceeds the demand (and occasionally a few lesser reasons), and protecting their production income. Not saying its right or that I’m okay with it, but its everywhere.
Another Supply Management W for the Canadian Dairy Cartel
Constantly impregnate cows, kill the calves, throw away the milk that would naturally be used to feed the baby. Sick and disgusting on many levels. Even if you don’t care about the wellbeing of animals, it is obscenely wasteful.
Do farmers ever privately sell raw milk for cheaper than retail? I’d make cheese and pasteurize some milk myself if it was worth it, ignoring the cost of my labour/time. IDC if it’s legal or not. Price of milk and cheese is insane, and processors are just dumping the extra into the sewer. So fuckin stupid.
Milk is gross people who still drink it are weird
The milk mafia strikes again