Canada’s maple syrup cartel puts squeeze on small producers

[Panich52]

Canada’s maple syrup cartel puts squeeze on small producers

Twenty-five years ago, Quebec made a bold move to produce the most maple syrup in the world. Today the syrup giant is unstoppable. Just ask those in its path, like small producer Angèle Grenier, who will face criminal charges if she sells this year’s harvest to her buyer of choice. In previous years she has sold syrup to a broker in New Brunswick. But this year a Quebec court order will force her to hand all the syrup produced on her small patch of land to the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.

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[Kelvin Mace]

1. Ah, the Free-Market in action

[Renew Deal]

2. Isn't this the opposite of the free market?

[Sunlei]

3. I thought they still placed buckets under each tree and drop by drop collected sap.

Guess she can still, cook & bottle, then sell her $60,000s worth barrels of sap from her restaurant business.

[zappaman]

4. I blame Sid.

[rug]

5. It's always about syrup.

[Maedhros]

6. NO WAR FOR SYRUP! [n/t]

[cali]

7. I'm addicted to it. I'm ashamed to admit how much of it I go through

It's a shocking amount. I put it in my coffee, I cook with it, put it in smoothies and pour it on everything from ice cream to fruit

[Warren DeMontague]

8. FEAR WILL KEEP THE LOCAL SYSTEMS IN LINE

FEAR OF THIS BATTLE STATION