ANGUS: THE PRICE OF EGGS
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 8:43 amANGUS: THE PRICE OF EGGS
The Price of Trump's Lies
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - March 22, 2025
EXCERPT: "The Power of Supply Management
So, how do you explain the difference?
Unlike the US, Canada regulates eggs, chicken, turkey, and dairy through a system known as "supply management." It is a system run by the farmers to ensure adequate production with stable prices. Producers buy "quotas," which allow them to supply the market. The quota guarantees a stable market and allows for long-term planning for family farms.
In this system, there’s no dumping from mercenary corporate attempts to control the market and drive down prices. Consumers barely notice because they are guaranteed stable prices and good supply.
Supply management has kept the family farm at the centre of Canadian ag policy and has resisted predation by corporate giants.
Needless to say, supply management isn't very popular with the right-wing ideologues. No doubt you've been fed a steady diet on how the "free market" will give you better choice. Or that increasing market size will find efficiencies that will be passed on to the consumer.
We hear this bullshit all the time in Canada from the likes of the National Post and right-wing pundits who believe that Canada's agricultural system is somehow dangerously socialistic. . . . ."
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The Price of Trump's Lies
Charlie Angus / The Resistance - March 22, 2025
EXCERPT: "The Power of Supply Management
So, how do you explain the difference?
Unlike the US, Canada regulates eggs, chicken, turkey, and dairy through a system known as "supply management." It is a system run by the farmers to ensure adequate production with stable prices. Producers buy "quotas," which allow them to supply the market. The quota guarantees a stable market and allows for long-term planning for family farms.
In this system, there’s no dumping from mercenary corporate attempts to control the market and drive down prices. Consumers barely notice because they are guaranteed stable prices and good supply.
Supply management has kept the family farm at the centre of Canadian ag policy and has resisted predation by corporate giants.
Needless to say, supply management isn't very popular with the right-wing ideologues. No doubt you've been fed a steady diet on how the "free market" will give you better choice. Or that increasing market size will find efficiencies that will be passed on to the consumer.
We hear this bullshit all the time in Canada from the likes of the National Post and right-wing pundits who believe that Canada's agricultural system is somehow dangerously socialistic. . . . ."
More: https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the ... dium=email ]