Yeah, god forbid they should be able to do what they want with their own property.
Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.
Morons, who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.
But I can't understand why, now that it exists and these producers are making so much more money from it, they'd want to dismantle it.
Edit a moment later: in regard to "who wouldn't like giving away 12%/pound for the privilege of someone doing price fixing for you.".
A: Someone who gets 13% (or 113%) more because of the price fixing.
Those choices of what they can and can't do with their property is inextricably tied with the existence of the cartel. The cartel does the work to keep prices up, so that's why producers want to grow maple syrup. If there were no cartel, then they wouldn't want to grow maple syrup, or at least they wouldn't be able to make as much money with it.
Nobody is helped by these guys rocking the boat. Not consumers, not producers, not the government, not the food industry that wants a steady supply and standards.