Supply management, that is the suggestion that supply management is an option for producers, is also a suggestion that may get some notice from both current large players and current government. This industry is controlled right now by big businesses who use the lack of government interest in what they are doing to their advantage and our disadvantage. They are rolling along in total confidence that we will bow down to the status quo and our government will sit back and let it happen.
Just discussing something like supply management, especially if it starts to seem credible to more than a handful of producers will get the attention of big business. You can bet on that. Producers getting together and presenting a united front is the kind of nightmare that big business did not want in the times of the first unions organizing. It's the last thing they want to see.
And it's a subject that's popping up more and more. I think it's an indication of just how bad things have become for us. We are actually discussing what only a few years ago would have been unthinkable to most. I've heard people suggest it who I never thought in a million years would even give it a thought.
We live in a world of big agribusiness. Giant corporations who have more resources than a lot of countries. How did they get so powerful? By keeping those who produce their primary products divided and scrapping amongst themselves. Any inflationary costs associated with their raw product over many many years have all been absorbed by guess who? US. Their margins have remained intact while we keep sinking deeper and deeper into an impossible situation.
We've hit bottom. There's no where else to go, and whether or not we believe individually in supply management, we need to keep it on the discussion table. The mere fact that we're talking about it is an indicator of our dire straits.
So keep talking....
In the meantime we need to address our problems in as many other ways as we can. Sooner or later we will hit on a solution that works.
Just discussing something like supply management, especially if it starts to seem credible to more than a handful of producers will get the attention of big business. You can bet on that. Producers getting together and presenting a united front is the kind of nightmare that big business did not want in the times of the first unions organizing. It's the last thing they want to see.
And it's a subject that's popping up more and more. I think it's an indication of just how bad things have become for us. We are actually discussing what only a few years ago would have been unthinkable to most. I've heard people suggest it who I never thought in a million years would even give it a thought.
We live in a world of big agribusiness. Giant corporations who have more resources than a lot of countries. How did they get so powerful? By keeping those who produce their primary products divided and scrapping amongst themselves. Any inflationary costs associated with their raw product over many many years have all been absorbed by guess who? US. Their margins have remained intact while we keep sinking deeper and deeper into an impossible situation.
We've hit bottom. There's no where else to go, and whether or not we believe individually in supply management, we need to keep it on the discussion table. The mere fact that we're talking about it is an indicator of our dire straits.
So keep talking....
In the meantime we need to address our problems in as many other ways as we can. Sooner or later we will hit on a solution that works.
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