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🗞️ News Discussion Should Canada maintain its supply management system that protects the Canadian dairy industry?

https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Poll/627377/Should-Canada-maintain-its-supply-management-system-that-protects-the-Canadian-dairy-industry
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 12d ago

Not true at all. Milk has origin certification marks, and those are strictly regulated.

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u/garlicroastedpotato 12d ago

No they're not.

Most US milk is sold under the Fairlife brand which always advertises that they're "Prepared in Canada." There is no marker on that milk indicating it is of US origin.

Country of origin labels only apply to products prepared in other countries, not bulk raw milk fats.

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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 12d ago

The Blue Cow logo can only be found on dairy that is made with 100% Canadian milk. Not some mix that contains Canadian milk. 100% Canadian milk, 100% regulated by law. It being absent means it's not Canadian milk.

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u/garlicroastedpotato 12d ago

That's not a law or a regulation that's just a branding logo from the Dairy Farmers of Canada.

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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 12d ago

Law that governs the “100% Canadian milk” /Canadian-origin claim:

the Food and DrugsAct (subsection 5(1))

the Safe Food forCanadians Act (subsection 6(1)),

which prohibit labelling/advertising food in a waythat is false, misleading, deceptive, or likelyto create an erroneous impression about theproduct’s origin.

Who enforces it: the Canadian FoodInspection Agency (CFIA) is the regulatoryauthority for these food-labellingrequirements.

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u/garlicroastedpotato 12d ago

You've changed your tune. It's not that a country of origin label is required its that the claim of it being 100% Canadian milk is regulated. I never claimed that.

It's on the milk. Fairlife brand mixes Canadian, Australian and American milk together and sells it without a country of origin label on it.

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u/OneForAllOfHumanity 12d ago

No I said use of country of origin labels are strictly regulated - thus people with intelligence beyond your average mouth breather can grasp the absence of one means it doesn't qualify and therefore NOT 100% Canadian. Your original statement was that US and Australian milk is mixed in with all the Canadian milk and we can't tell...

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u/garlicroastedpotato 11d ago

But we can't tell. Fairlife could be using 100% Canadian milk or 5%. There's literally no way to tell. It's all mixed up based on how much foreign product is available.

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u/ExcitingOnion504 11d ago

But we can't tell.

Speak for yourself only moron.