Dairy farmers make suckers of consumers

I found this over at the The Gazette-
Canadians are drinking 18 per cent less milk than they did in 1980, consuming 30 per cent less butter and 24 per cent less ice cream. Cheese production is barely holding steady. The Canadian dairy herd has dwindled.

Sounds like a disastrous portrait of a collapsing industry, doesn't it? In fact, these realities are all the result of careful manipulation of the dairy industry by federal and provincial governments and dairy producers themselves. This systematic conspiracy against consumers goes by the name of "orderly marketing," and it has resulted in an average profit margin for dairy farms of 25 per cent of operating revenue, almost double the figure for all farms in Canada.

Now, at the beginning of a new year, both the federal and provincial governments dipped into consumers' pockets yet again to fatten the profits of politically well-connected dairy farmers. Year after year this scandal goes on because consumers don't know how to fight back. Revenue, almost double the figure for all farms in Canada.

Now, at the beginning of a new year, both the federal and provincial governments dipped into consumers' pockets yet again to fatten the profits of politically well-connected dairy farmers. Year after year this scandal goes on because consumerdon't know how to fight back. ...for the rest of the story.......