Quebec's pork industry in a battle over entrenched centralized regulatory system

Open this photo in gallery: Production line at JYGA Technologies in Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Que. The company designs and produces feeding machines for sow barns. Quebec’s largest pork farmers have been told to cut production or face a monetary penalty.Renaud Philippe/The Globe and Mail The Quebec pork farmers union is implementing a penalty for all those who surpass the set quota for production in the province, a move some say could undermine competition. The 40-per-cent tax on the cost of an extra hog sent to slaughter will keep production at around 6.5 million pigs per year, said the pork union, Les à‰leveurs…