The government said the research should help producers with the shift to different housing methods, such as free range, because of retail-industry bans from birds raised in conventional housing.
The money for the poultry research comes from a different direction than Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada which recently announced controversial research funding cuts and closure of seven research centres.
What I wonder is why the millionaire quota holders don't fund their own research. After all, they boast that they don't need subsidies like other non-supply-management commodities require.
