saskskierForgive me if I'm missing something here, but does opening up the dairy market also mean there are going to be changes in food quality standards?
It's hard to say. The way it is now quality control is done at almost every step of the way.
-the farms themselves have specific standards they need to meet in Canada that may not need to be met in other countries producing milk that, although may not deteriorate the health quality, could easily deteriorate taste or other culinary qualities.
-the milk coming directly from farms is inspected before transportation and mixing with milk of other farms. does that happen in other countries? One uninspected farm may deteriorate the overall quality of a region every so slightly when mixed in with other farms, but will it deteriorate the quality enough for it to not pass the minimum grade?
I doubt this info is easily available, but let's put it in numbers (these don't actually mean anything) so it's easy to visualize what I'm saying:
say the passing grade for milk is 70%. If you grab the average milk from a shelf in the grocery store perhaps right now it scores 90%. So the milk we're drinking is quite a bit higher than the minimum standard. maybe then the milk that we start importing only scores 75%. It passes and can be sold, but still scores 1/4 less than what we're already consuming.
Also just think about it: if I'm buying milk from the store that yesterday was shipped from the Sealtest plant a few km away that a few days earlier was shipped from the surrounding farms within a 50km radius, would you not expect the quality to be higher than that of milk that went from farm to processing plant to shipping facility to being shipped to another shipping facility then finally to the store?
