There are a few reasons I don't agree with Doom's open market cheese concept.
For one, most dairy farms in the USA use Monsanto hormones that are still illegal in Canada, they often feel they have to use hormones in order to increase volume enough to compete.
Add in trying to run a small shop within 50 miles of the new and improved Wal-Mart* super center.
It's going to be a hard no for me thanks.
So you end up with.
- Me who won't go to Walmart*.
- Doom who supports Walmart* but hates the tariff.
- A couple others.
- Guys in Quebec that will buy and sell illegal raw cheese.
- Most of the population that shop for the least expensive cheese they can find regardless of what's in it. If you can offer them cheese from China with low enough toxicity at a price of 9 cents less that's the cheese they're buying.
Yes I know there are a percentage of organic farms on US soil. Some fairly large cheese makers such as Tillamook in Oregan for example source organic dairy. Doom, Dukasaur and betiko probably think their cheese is trash but I like it.
Lacking the busted laws Doom is complaining about which were meant to protect the little guys and in some cases our health and the cows, but then get exploited by what appears to be syndicates in Ontario.
Huge corporation owned farms often move in and exploit the cows with their methods to maximize production.
Why do you guys agree to these things?
It almost never matters if even a fair number of people disagree with things. The process to reverse anything really bad is overwhelming.
In Alberta we never had an add at the cash register sales tax. There were some hidden sales taxes but a price tag was what you paid,
Eventually the federal government introduced the Goods and Services Tax known as GST.
Even better, sometimes the way it is charged it will occur during wholesale to a distributor, then again wholesale to the store then again when the consumer buys the item. Yeah it's great, not only is the government collecting 5% more than once, it collects 5% on the layers or GST they collected.
Simplified example, manufacturer sells product to distributor for $100 + GST = $105.
The store is not going to pay that they are going to add five bucks to the final price and then I will be paying the entire $5.25 more tax in addition to the profit margin mark up plus GST on the entire final price. Yay.
* That is a swear word in my opinion.
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:53 pm