Well, no one ever accused the American government of being smart…
What the US wants from Canada: everything. What Canada wants from the US: for them to fuck off.
I know which of those two I think will win out in the long haul.
They can keep their hormone and antibiotic infected milk and shitty whisky.
As for netflix, eat my ass. We promote our own art up here. I want more Canadian artists on my playlists. What do they expect us to do? Watch those stupid American superhero movies? Fuck that shit.
Serious question, what hormones are in the milk? I don’t think I have ever seen a jug of milk without a label saying that it was free of growth hormones. Even Walmart milk has the rBST-free label.
Edit: ok I learned that while it is illegal to produce milk using rBST in Canada, it is not illegal to import milk into Canada that was produced with rBST. Check your labels folks.
Canadian Walmart or US?
Both. Walmart in the US hasn’t used rBST since 2008 - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wal-mart-milk/. rBST is banned in Canada so that one’s free.
Looks like rBST was deemed safe by FDA, so maybe some retailers still stock it?
It’s possible. I’m an avid milk drinker in the US and can’t recall ever having seen milk without the rBST free label. You might have to buy like dollar store milk or something to find it haha. Sounds like maybe 10-20% of US milk might have rBST.
Interestingly it is not illegal to import milk produced with rBST into Canada and Google says there are no specific labeling requirements for imported milk. But that’s been a thing since 2015 apparently.
So good news everyone, you may have already been drinking hormone and antibiotic infected milk already for the last 10 years in Canada if you haven’t checked the label. TIL.
When we drank milk we stuck to Canadian brands, so should be good. We went from vegetarian to vegan about 3-4 years ago so now I will have to start worrying about lead content in oats, soy, cashew or almonds
We need to smarten up and support our government playing hardball but we’re still being wishy-washy with our support. Lines out the door to get the last bottles of JD? F off. Travel is only down 30%? F off. Stop selling our country to the US one amazon purchase at a time. It will hurt, but it is necessary if you don’t want to become amerikkkun.
Blanket punitive tariffs double whatever the US implements. Want our aluminum, wood and oil? Cut the BS. We’re already recovering by increasing ties, both militarily and economically with the EU.
This is what happens when your trade policy amounts to raw extortion.
Fuck em. They don’t want negotiation, they want capitulation.
I can boycott U.S. dairy as easily as I boycott every other U.S. product.
Not if they flood our market and kill our industry. And sure we have supply management but they have subsidies.
Dairy is not a necessity. (Source: I’ve lived practically dairy free for 25 years here.)
It’s trivial to boycott a non-necessity.
The next time Canada dumps a bunch of milk in a ditch to control prices they should film it to show the trump administration.
😜. US sees it as controlling price, but the bigger benefit is it controls quality and animal welfare by stopping overproduction. Which the US hates, they just make as much as they can pump out regardless of how it affects quality or animal health.
And subsidize their industry because they over produce.
Who really does this. I’m sorry the video who did this was on purpose. They know how much milk they need and produce around that much. Is it sometimes higher probably but not thousands of liters.
A milk cow can generate a 1000 litres of milk a month, it seems reasonable that you might have one or two more cows than you need as a buffer for a dairy farm, and for a larger company with multiple farms, 1000 litres isn’t even a rounding error. Canada produced over 800,000,000 litres of milk in May alone see Stats Canada. I believe supply management regulations also force the destruction of overproduction as well. related Question Period QA. Based on this, it’s even worse than 1000’s of litres.
They can always technically meet requirements while still having the same end result. For instance, US products are on a shelf with a warning sign. Or they’re locked up and you need to find an employee to get it for you. Or they’re simply overpriced to the point where no one would want it.
