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Originally Posted by jollyburger
Free market wins, Earls folds. 
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It seems opposite to me. It seems like Earls wanted a certification of beef that they couldn't get from Alberta because Alberta's standards weren't high enough. The free market effect would have been decisions by companies like Earls to put pressure on Alberta beef producers to up their game to meet what the market was demanding. Instead, we have the social media, "trending" meme market winning, along with some sort of misguided overly-nationalistic sentiment.