🚨🇨🇦CANADIAN FARMERS DUMP MILK WHILE GROCERY BILLS SOAR
Jerry Huigen, an Ontario dairy farmer, stood by a drain in 2023, pouring out 30,000 liters of milk and letting his anguish spill with it: “It breaks my heart. They make us dump it.”
This isn’t a one-off sob story—it’s the brutal reality of Canada’s supply management system.
Quotas set by the Canadian Dairy Commission cap how much milk farmers can sell.
Go over? No one’s buying, and it’s straight down the drain.
Billions of liters—6.8 to 10 billion from 2012 to 2021—wasted, not because it’s bad, but because the rules say so. Cows don’t follow quotas; they produce what they produce. Farmers overshoot to avoid penalties, then watch their work vanish.
Food banks are starving for donations, but unprocessed surplus can’t legally reach them—meanwhile, 1 in 8 Canadian homes struggles to eat.
Sources: @foodbankscanada , @MyLordBebo
