xkcd #3290: Trade

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"You legs may have a comparative advantage at running, but we arms have a competitive advantage at swinging hammers, so unless you accept that we're the dominant limbs and stop hogging the oxygen, that running advantage won't be around for long."

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

As someone who works directly in the Canadian dairy industry (not a farmer), there are very specific reasons we don't want your dairy ANYWHERE in our country.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    As a Canadian who consumes dairy products, I completely agree.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    If Dairy Farmers of Canada allowed half of what American dairy allows on their farms, I would reject them at the farm level tomorrow.

    Shit, I had a positive bacterial test at a production facility. Half of the trailer was contaminated and threw a positive. It's so rare QA at that plant didn't know what to do. Multiple tests, a rejected half tank, and after finding out... A small farm of about 2000L accidentally milked one cow on antibiotics. They milk 4-5 times between farm pickup days. So one cow, one time, over 4-5 herd milking, for around 2000L of milk, was enough to flag an antibiotics test of nearly 16000 litres of milk in half of a tanker. That single cow may have produced 8-13 litres of milk in that 2000L pickup, which was enough to flag a test on 16000L.

    For comparison sake, American milk allows antibiotics in their milk. They can milk cows on antibiotics and keep them in the main herd.

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