Re:On the death of my family's dairy farm
by microcolonel on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:24PM
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> Canada's protected dairy market is about far more than keeping farms going. It is about regulating a stable food supply and associated external impacts.
Canadians do consume a fair amount of dairy in global terms, but honestly it's not a big part of most people's diets by calories. If dairy got more expensive for a few months, or a decade, or forever, people would just buy less of it. If it got less expensive, those inclined might buy more of it sometimes.
There is no moral or practical benefit to to Canadian society at large in "stabilizing" the dairy supply, if the current regime could even be considered that.
There's also that the Canadian Food Guide just dropped dairy as an essential food group.
As other posters have pointed out, Canada's protected dairy market is about far more than keeping farms going. It is about regulating a stable food supply and associated external impacts.