“Supply management was designed to deliver price stability—not regional chaos and $5 eggs. If this is what control looks like, consumers have every right to question who's really being protected.”
Not surprised, believe it's all in the plan. Even question the CFIA when it's comes to culling herds of chickens, government leaves much in question these days. Are they the only ones allowed to do the testing. First it was chickens, now ostriches makes people wondering what's next. Oh and don't forget the cows and their farts.
I live in a small town and I've been buying from a local farmer. Beautiful eggs. I know people in large cities do not have that available. They have been the same price for 3 years.
Given our Liberal government’s penchant for virtue signalling by fire-hosing money in foreign aid to some really questionable aid programmes overseas, why are farmers forced to dump millions of litres of milk that exceed quotas?
Why not save the over-quota milk, use federal aid money to dehydrate it, and to ship it to feed the needy both at home and abroad?
I support a charitable organization that would greatly appreciate the receipt of bulk powdered milk and gladly raise funds to ship it to desperate people in Cuba. Surely there are other organizations that would likewise work with the federal government to help feed the hungry.
The farther apart the producers are the more freight consumers pay. Having such large flocks results in major problems for producers when large numbers of birds have to be destroyed. Both eggs and milk are what is known as cartels with the help of the dairy business that haul milk thousands of miles. The dairy in Victoria is owned by a company in QUEBEC, a lot of smaller dairies were bought up and closed down leaving shippers with no where to take their milk without huge shipping costs.
It's crazy how much a diary farmer pays per cow to be part of the supply management business.... Average is about $30,000/cow! Sorry, it was a podcast and I cannot remember who.. maybe Brian Lilley. Google it
When you cull 14 million chickens you are going to have an egg shortage. Supply management has nothing to do with it. The government dreaming that they can control bird flu by culling chickens is the culprit. A hen lays one egg per day so every day 14 million eggs have been removed from the supply chain. We are lucky we still have eggs to buy.
Did they test for Avian Flu using the PCR test? Because its inventor said it is useless as a diagnostic tool and will find false positive 'viruses' in a cup of coffee. But the Evil State wants a famine and it has one already. It will spread. They will never put "malnutrition" on the Death Certificates of course. They will put COVID or whatever the doctors are told to put there.
Not sure why the designer of the test is still claiming that OR is it just getting regurgitated? The test has evolved and I used it for diagnostic purposes for years before retiring. It works great. Respiratory virus panels, HIV, bacterial, Hepatitis variants, the options are really endless. I also used a process to identify the genome of bacteria all based on nucleic acids. Sophisticated and very accurate.
Cary Mullis. They killed him just before the unleashing of the mRNA experimental gene therapy. He was getting in the way. He knew Fauci from the AIDS days and knew that Fauci had created that “Epidemic” too as a kind of warm-up for the recent fake Pandemic.
Read Mullis about his test. You likely had false positives depending on what your sampling rates were. For COVID they ramped them up real high, which would find COVID in a shoe or a cup of coffee. Anything tested.
Hmmm, yes, something was hinky with covid and I had left the lab already. The previous procedures are highly controlled and I believe very accurate. They do correlate patient symptoms with diagnostics. I know it is still widely used. The applications are evolving and I know PCR is a good test.
Mullis was implying that it was fine for research but not for diagnostics. He knew that changing the sampling variable would make all the difference. They killed him for talking about that as PCR testing was the cornerstone of the Covid Conspiracy.
Is it likely that the surge in egg prices is due to energy costs? Or the carbon tax which is zero for consumers but still in place for business/industry?
You think "greed is the deciding factor" which makes my comment partially correct. Greed is always a factor in any business but not sure if this answers the question.
You've made it crystal clear that you and Don have never owned a business.
Pricing is based upon what it costs a corporation to place products into your shopping bag. Inflation, taxation, energy costs, staffing, transportation, mantainance, are a short list of the liabilities that are passed on to the consumer. There is no money tree. The money that keeps a corporation in business comes directly from the consumer.
When the cost of liablities decrease, profit will increase and with that a corporation will expand creating more jobs thus meeting consumer demands. Does that sound like greed to you?
"Supply management" is an act of socialism; government interference within the marketplace; the elimination of free Enterprise. The thought has become that because the"supply management" exists, it must be good for Canadians and ought to be preserved. How can Canadians be so damn stupid.
Supply Management takes the managing of your own personal affairs from out of your hands placing into the hands of the government.
Supply management also eliminates consumer choice. With the money in their hand, the consumers have the right to choose the corporate winners and losers, not the government and their stooges.
$6.20 for a gallon of milk. In the U.S. it's around $3.50 a gallon. Even with exchange we are getting ripped off just to keep Quebec happy. What's country.
I am not in favour of supply management but if you feel you are ripped of you can always buy your own cow and find out what it takes to produce milk and what it costs to do it.I guarantee you you wont last 1/2 a year before selling the cow and go back to store bought or quit drinking it all together.
The grocery stores each compete for customers. That s what keeps prices down! Whenever there is a monopoly to (supposedly) keep prices down, the opposite happens.
Exactly. That is called competition in the market place. Cartels are not competition. They are picking winners and losers. We the consumer are the losers. Wish I could be guaranteed a price for My services until death do us part.
With Dr Meat there is no competition, only fixing and gouging. His friend Galen Weston (loblaws) builds huge additions to the British Museum in London with money gouged from Canadians.
Agree 100%' Grocery stores are businesses. They are going to charge whatever they can. It's the governments responsibility (what we pay them for) to control this.
This is pure gouging, pricing on everything post Scamdemic has been price gouging...This has been planned, 2030, you will own nothing and be happy...one of the largest wealth transfers in Human history, take from the poor to give to the rich...
The real scam mentioned is the increase in the price of coffee due to US tariffs. I am sure none of you drink coffee grown in the US.
Coffee beans are shipped to the US and then to Canada after being put in packages and consequently get our anti US tariffs applied. If coffee companies shipped coffee beans direct to Canada there would be no tariff. Thanks for looking out for us coffee companies and your agents Loblaws, Metro and so on. It is a cartel which does not have to even pretend to save us money.
Here's a little tale that occurred back in the early 90's in the USA during the first Bush Administration. It's pertinent to Canada today, and demonstrates exactly how one of the largest and most important segments of our food supply is manipulated. Living and working in the US at the time, I became interested.
A national news story broke that some 50 million chickens had to be destroyed. Memory fails a bit here but I think it was bird flu, in the southwestern US. Americans became concerned, fearing shortages; there were even stock market implications. Very quickly, a senior executive for one of the big chicken ranchers appeared on TV with a reassuring speech. He stated that it was a mere glitch and not to worry. He explained that there were some 55 billion chickens processed annually in the US, and the 50 million destroyed represented less than a tenth of a percent. Full disclosure here, I have no way of knowing how accurate the preceding numbers are. They're what were published in the media. But the speech calmed the public down, and the issue disappeared from view.
But that's a lot of chickens and it raised a lot of curiosity. Some enterprising reporter thought so too, and dug deeper. Here's what he found.
Bush had appointed Sonny Purdue as Minister of Agriculture. This is the founder of the Purdue Chicken empire, a mega-billionaire. Bush put the fox in charge of the hen house.
Before Purdue's appointment, all chicken products had to be fully processed in the US in order to claim a "Made in the USA" label. That meant raised, slaughtered, cleaned, dissected, and packaged. The biggest line item in raising and distributing chickens is the cost of labour for processing. At the time, that was $12 per hour. The majority of this labour was done by immigrants, mostly Mexican, both legal and illegal.
Purdue had the law changed. It now became legal to have the chickens processed overseas. As you might have guessed, the US chicken processing industry rapidly shifted to China. In China, the cost of labour was $2 per day. $2 per day vs $12 hour, for 55 billion chickens. That's a lot of chicken scratch. Just as meaningful as the law itself, Purdue added an amendment that allowed him to use a "Made in the USA" label. His justification is of course that the chickens were raised in the US before being shipped to China.
And nowhere in the law - including the section governing labels - is there any requirement to indicate that the chicken was processed in China. That's still in effect today.
Today, chicken manufacturers in Canada can proudly and boldly label their product as "100% Canadian". Which they do. Complete with Canadian flag symbols to reinforce the Canadianism.
If you're so inclined, do a little research on the internet and query any of the large chicken producers and ask where their chicken is processed. Not where it's "Made" or a "Product of" or "Raised in", or any of the other misleading euphemisms, but where it's "Processed". Good luck.
Today, in both countries, you would be hard-pressed to purchase any chicken that was not processed in China. You just don't know it.
I'm not certain we should be overly concerned about any health issues with the current processing, but it leaves the question open, How much control or visibility do we have over chicken processing in China?
A footnote to all this may not be relevant, but I find it interesting. According to Wikipedia, one of the major industries in Wuhan, China, is chicken processing. The same Wuhan that gave us COVID.
Just thought I'd throw that in there to give all the Conspiracy buffs some fodder.
Not surprised, believe it's all in the plan. Even question the CFIA when it's comes to culling herds of chickens, government leaves much in question these days. Are they the only ones allowed to do the testing. First it was chickens, now ostriches makes people wondering what's next. Oh and don't forget the cows and their farts.
If you want to see the direction this country is headed? Go to your bathroom, stand next to your toilet and flush! This started in 2015!!!
When people wake up and ban together they will realize how much control they have over everything. Stop buying eggs and see what happens.
I live in a small town and I've been buying from a local farmer. Beautiful eggs. I know people in large cities do not have that available. They have been the same price for 3 years.
Given our Liberal government’s penchant for virtue signalling by fire-hosing money in foreign aid to some really questionable aid programmes overseas, why are farmers forced to dump millions of litres of milk that exceed quotas?
Why not save the over-quota milk, use federal aid money to dehydrate it, and to ship it to feed the needy both at home and abroad?
I support a charitable organization that would greatly appreciate the receipt of bulk powdered milk and gladly raise funds to ship it to desperate people in Cuba. Surely there are other organizations that would likewise work with the federal government to help feed the hungry.
Carney hates humans. He is headed for NET ZERO which means another several billion dead.
Remember the enemy for the plans for the future for the LIberal Party of Canada is the human race itself.
The farther apart the producers are the more freight consumers pay. Having such large flocks results in major problems for producers when large numbers of birds have to be destroyed. Both eggs and milk are what is known as cartels with the help of the dairy business that haul milk thousands of miles. The dairy in Victoria is owned by a company in QUEBEC, a lot of smaller dairies were bought up and closed down leaving shippers with no where to take their milk without huge shipping costs.
It's crazy how much a diary farmer pays per cow to be part of the supply management business.... Average is about $30,000/cow! Sorry, it was a podcast and I cannot remember who.. maybe Brian Lilley. Google it
When you cull 14 million chickens you are going to have an egg shortage. Supply management has nothing to do with it. The government dreaming that they can control bird flu by culling chickens is the culprit. A hen lays one egg per day so every day 14 million eggs have been removed from the supply chain. We are lucky we still have eggs to buy.
Wrong!
Did they test for Avian Flu using the PCR test? Because its inventor said it is useless as a diagnostic tool and will find false positive 'viruses' in a cup of coffee. But the Evil State wants a famine and it has one already. It will spread. They will never put "malnutrition" on the Death Certificates of course. They will put COVID or whatever the doctors are told to put there.
Not sure why the designer of the test is still claiming that OR is it just getting regurgitated? The test has evolved and I used it for diagnostic purposes for years before retiring. It works great. Respiratory virus panels, HIV, bacterial, Hepatitis variants, the options are really endless. I also used a process to identify the genome of bacteria all based on nucleic acids. Sophisticated and very accurate.
Cary Mullis. They killed him just before the unleashing of the mRNA experimental gene therapy. He was getting in the way. He knew Fauci from the AIDS days and knew that Fauci had created that “Epidemic” too as a kind of warm-up for the recent fake Pandemic.
Read Mullis about his test. You likely had false positives depending on what your sampling rates were. For COVID they ramped them up real high, which would find COVID in a shoe or a cup of coffee. Anything tested.
Hmmm, yes, something was hinky with covid and I had left the lab already. The previous procedures are highly controlled and I believe very accurate. They do correlate patient symptoms with diagnostics. I know it is still widely used. The applications are evolving and I know PCR is a good test.
Mullis was implying that it was fine for research but not for diagnostics. He knew that changing the sampling variable would make all the difference. They killed him for talking about that as PCR testing was the cornerstone of the Covid Conspiracy.
Any test is alright, within parameters and correct application, until it gets into the wrong hands.
Is it likely that the surge in egg prices is due to energy costs? Or the carbon tax which is zero for consumers but still in place for business/industry?
Partially correct . There are many a curve in the way government distorts the economy. Nothing is simple when government is involved in the economy.
So, partially correct, then what else is there to add?
I think greed has deciding factor in this equation called life.
Yeah government greed.
You think "greed is the deciding factor" which makes my comment partially correct. Greed is always a factor in any business but not sure if this answers the question.
You've made it crystal clear that you and Don have never owned a business.
Pricing is based upon what it costs a corporation to place products into your shopping bag. Inflation, taxation, energy costs, staffing, transportation, mantainance, are a short list of the liabilities that are passed on to the consumer. There is no money tree. The money that keeps a corporation in business comes directly from the consumer.
When the cost of liablities decrease, profit will increase and with that a corporation will expand creating more jobs thus meeting consumer demands. Does that sound like greed to you?
"Supply management" is an act of socialism; government interference within the marketplace; the elimination of free Enterprise. The thought has become that because the"supply management" exists, it must be good for Canadians and ought to be preserved. How can Canadians be so damn stupid.
Supply Management takes the managing of your own personal affairs from out of your hands placing into the hands of the government.
I have owned a business for 25 years and was very successful. You assume too much before getting your facts straight
Probably making things worse.
Supply management in all sectors should be abolished. Without free enterprise, this country will never prosper.
Right you are.
Supply management also eliminates consumer choice. With the money in their hand, the consumers have the right to choose the corporate winners and losers, not the government and their stooges.
$6.20 for a gallon of milk. In the U.S. it's around $3.50 a gallon. Even with exchange we are getting ripped off just to keep Quebec happy. What's country.
I am not in favour of supply management but if you feel you are ripped of you can always buy your own cow and find out what it takes to produce milk and what it costs to do it.I guarantee you you wont last 1/2 a year before selling the cow and go back to store bought or quit drinking it all together.
BTW that $3.50 US is still nearly $5 Canadian.
maybe check with the boards to see where the price increases come from.
how much are the grocery stores up charging the eggs?
The grocery stores each compete for customers. That s what keeps prices down! Whenever there is a monopoly to (supposedly) keep prices down, the opposite happens.
Exactly. That is called competition in the market place. Cartels are not competition. They are picking winners and losers. We the consumer are the losers. Wish I could be guaranteed a price for My services until death do us part.
With Dr Meat there is no competition, only fixing and gouging. His friend Galen Weston (loblaws) builds huge additions to the British Museum in London with money gouged from Canadians.
He knows how to milk the system where as You and May be too honest and work to build a good product at a reasonable price.
In the City of London there is no competition. Just feral gang warfare, bribery and nepotism... as well as money laundering.
That is a sad state of affairs!
Stop blaming grocery stores - it’s our government’s fault and their stupid policies that hurt Canadians especially the poor.
Agree 100%' Grocery stores are businesses. They are going to charge whatever they can. It's the governments responsibility (what we pay them for) to control this.
This is pure gouging, pricing on everything post Scamdemic has been price gouging...This has been planned, 2030, you will own nothing and be happy...one of the largest wealth transfers in Human history, take from the poor to give to the rich...
Canada is a failed state!
The real scam mentioned is the increase in the price of coffee due to US tariffs. I am sure none of you drink coffee grown in the US.
Coffee beans are shipped to the US and then to Canada after being put in packages and consequently get our anti US tariffs applied. If coffee companies shipped coffee beans direct to Canada there would be no tariff. Thanks for looking out for us coffee companies and your agents Loblaws, Metro and so on. It is a cartel which does not have to even pretend to save us money.
Here's a little tale that occurred back in the early 90's in the USA during the first Bush Administration. It's pertinent to Canada today, and demonstrates exactly how one of the largest and most important segments of our food supply is manipulated. Living and working in the US at the time, I became interested.
A national news story broke that some 50 million chickens had to be destroyed. Memory fails a bit here but I think it was bird flu, in the southwestern US. Americans became concerned, fearing shortages; there were even stock market implications. Very quickly, a senior executive for one of the big chicken ranchers appeared on TV with a reassuring speech. He stated that it was a mere glitch and not to worry. He explained that there were some 55 billion chickens processed annually in the US, and the 50 million destroyed represented less than a tenth of a percent. Full disclosure here, I have no way of knowing how accurate the preceding numbers are. They're what were published in the media. But the speech calmed the public down, and the issue disappeared from view.
But that's a lot of chickens and it raised a lot of curiosity. Some enterprising reporter thought so too, and dug deeper. Here's what he found.
Bush had appointed Sonny Purdue as Minister of Agriculture. This is the founder of the Purdue Chicken empire, a mega-billionaire. Bush put the fox in charge of the hen house.
Before Purdue's appointment, all chicken products had to be fully processed in the US in order to claim a "Made in the USA" label. That meant raised, slaughtered, cleaned, dissected, and packaged. The biggest line item in raising and distributing chickens is the cost of labour for processing. At the time, that was $12 per hour. The majority of this labour was done by immigrants, mostly Mexican, both legal and illegal.
Purdue had the law changed. It now became legal to have the chickens processed overseas. As you might have guessed, the US chicken processing industry rapidly shifted to China. In China, the cost of labour was $2 per day. $2 per day vs $12 hour, for 55 billion chickens. That's a lot of chicken scratch. Just as meaningful as the law itself, Purdue added an amendment that allowed him to use a "Made in the USA" label. His justification is of course that the chickens were raised in the US before being shipped to China.
And nowhere in the law - including the section governing labels - is there any requirement to indicate that the chicken was processed in China. That's still in effect today.
Today, chicken manufacturers in Canada can proudly and boldly label their product as "100% Canadian". Which they do. Complete with Canadian flag symbols to reinforce the Canadianism.
If you're so inclined, do a little research on the internet and query any of the large chicken producers and ask where their chicken is processed. Not where it's "Made" or a "Product of" or "Raised in", or any of the other misleading euphemisms, but where it's "Processed". Good luck.
Today, in both countries, you would be hard-pressed to purchase any chicken that was not processed in China. You just don't know it.
I'm not certain we should be overly concerned about any health issues with the current processing, but it leaves the question open, How much control or visibility do we have over chicken processing in China?
A footnote to all this may not be relevant, but I find it interesting. According to Wikipedia, one of the major industries in Wuhan, China, is chicken processing. The same Wuhan that gave us COVID.
Just thought I'd throw that in there to give all the Conspiracy buffs some fodder.
DID YOU KNOW THAT JUST AFTER THE CHANGE OF ADMIN IN THE U.S. THEY FOUND AT LEAST TWO LABS THAT WERE STRIVING TO MAKE AVIAN FLU MORE CONTAGIOUS?
EVERYONE WAS FIRED. LABS WERE SHUT. THEY WERE OPEATIING WITH GOV. AID VIA THE DEMO-CRATS.