{"id":20131,"date":"2013-05-06T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20131"},"modified":"2013-05-06T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T14:58:10","slug":"a-canadian-criminal-innovation-cheese-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/a-canadian-criminal-innovation-cheese-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian criminal innovation &#8211; cheese smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC reports on a breathtaking news item &#8230; imported mozzarella cheese is being removed from the clutches of the supply management system, which will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/windsor\/story\/2013\/05\/02\/wdr-mozzarella-cheese-cost-pizza.html\" target=\"_blank\">reduce prices by a significant amount<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pizza lovers could soon be paying less for their favourite pies.<\/p>\n<p>A ruling made this week by the Canadian Dairy Commission could soon allow Canadian restaurants to buy deeply discounted mozzarella cheese.<\/p>\n<p>The commission changed the rules used to classify mozzarella cheese, putting the milk product in its own class and essentially removing it from supply-management pricing. Before the ruling, the price for mozzarella cheese in Canada was artificially high when compared to the world market.<\/p>\n<p>The new class, to take effect June 1, is expected to result in lower costs for Canadian-made mozzarella for restaurants that prepare and cook pizzas on site.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Abumeeiz, who owns Arcata Pizzeria in Windsor, Ont., said the ruling could drop the price of a large pizza by as much as 10 per cent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and the cheese smuggling?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>High prices are part of the reason some pizzeria owners were turning to contraband cheese, smuggled into Canada from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall CBC News learned three men, including one current and one former police officer from the Niagara Falls area, were charged in connection with an international cheese-smuggling network.<\/p>\n<p>The men are accused of smuggling caseloads of cheap cheese from the U.S. to sell to Canadian pizzerias and restaurants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC reports on a breathtaking news item &#8230; imported mozzarella cheese is being removed from the clutches of the supply management system, which will reduce prices by a significant amount: Pizza lovers could soon be paying less for their favourite pies. A ruling made this week by the Canadian Dairy Commission could soon allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,25,74,13],"tags":[469,266,890],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-food","category-usa","tag-monopolies","tag-protectionism","tag-supplymanagement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5eH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20132,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}