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proved efficiency are continually
being passed on to the consumer.
Also contrary to what Adrian Vos
said in his article, the COP formula
actually does eliminate subsidies to
the producer by passing the equivalent
savings on to the consumer. Any
money received by milk producers
from OFFIRR, the Special Grains
Program, Drought Assistance, etc., is
deducted from our income by the COP
formula, thereby turning a producer
subsidy into a consumer subsidy.
How many pork producers and beef
farmers sign their government subsidy
cheques and hand them over to the
consumer?
Getting upset with Adrian Vos
probably hasn't been of any benefit
because as long as I have been farm-
ing there have always been bigoted,
anti -supply management boneheads
such as Charlie Gracey, Ross Procter,
and Professor Warley, to name a few,
whose main intent in life is to bring
parity into the farming community by
lowering the income and standard of
living of producers of supply -managed
commodities down to the level of
producers of non -supply -managed
commodities instead of vice versa.
History has proven that all the phone
calls and letters to the editor will not
change their basic biased philosophies
of life on the farm. After all, it is
much easier for weak people to dis-
assemble and destroy than it is to
develop and build.
Maybe I should have directed my
anger at the editor instead, for had she
had the basic knowledge of how the
COP is used by the OMMB she would
have realized when she perused the
article that its content was complete
garbage and returned it to the author.
Ignorance is no excuse, buy maybe I
should blame the OMMB for not
educating the general public enough
about the fabrication, operation, and
benefits of supply management.
Now that I have cooled down I am
mostly just disappointed, disappointed
in all my fellow milk producers who
are quite willing to sit back in passive
apathy and allow the Adrian Voses of
this country to use false and mislead-
ing statements to try to destroy the
fabric of supply management, thereby
destroying our security, our liveli-