I can always tell when somebody has cranked someone else in the dairy business. Something shows up somewhere in the Globe & Mail! You really know you've hit a nerve when it shows up in the ROB section.
Even more instructive is the comments link at the bottom of the editiorial. Follow it and see for yourself.
Somebody goes to a great deal of effort to talk about the Belleville Cheese Exchange and the old days. Someone else is pretty upset and certainly doesn't understand the quota system in Supply management.
Mr. Strahl, it's not the Canadian whey
NEIL REYNOLDS
From Friday's Globe and Mail
From Friday's Globe and Mail
May 4, 2007 at 5:53 AM EDT
OTTAWA - Like Little Miss Muffet, Canadians have been consuming their curds and whey - and helping the environment at the same time. By choosing "light" cheeses at the supermarket, products that recycle whey, Canadians have exponentially increased the country's consumption of a waste product traditionally bereft of commercial uses. Since residual whey is a significant industrial pollutant, this marketplace adaptation has produced a fine symbiotic relationship. Fewer calories for people. Less wastes for industry.
In this allegorical construct, the next character we encounter should be the Spider. Enter Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl as Spiderman. When Mr. Strahl addressed a convention of dairy farmers in February, he announced that he had directed federal food regulators "to launch a regulatory process related to the compositional standards for cheese." He had taken this action, he said, "to protect consumer interests and to promote choice in the marketplace
For the complete story see....... Mr. Strahl, it's not the Canadian whey -CG
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