Hellmanns Commercial (THINK ABOUT THIS CANADA!!!)

[HadasahB]

Just recently i made the switch from tomatoes (could not find any that were not grown in Mexico!) to mini cucumbers grown in my province. No more fresh toms until they're born in Canada! SOOoo, IF you can see past that this is a hellmans/unilever commercial, THEN there is some excellent advice here - like 1) buy Canadian as much as you can, 2) buy as close to home as you can, 3) and if we ask for it and buy it MORE, we will see results sooner. Money motivational!

[2combat]

I agree, but I think if the majority of local farms where trying to sell their produce at import prices things would go over a bit better.

[outwestview]

Looks like everyone here is aware that this is a hoax by Unilever, good to see that we are not buying thier propaganda..like they care about what we eat. All you have to do is look at the ingredients(canola..sugar..and unpronouncables) and the company Unilever and its connection to monsanto

[NovaStream331]

Instead of thinking up new technologies to ship foreign foods, we can invest energy, education and finances in our Neighbourhoods and grow strong locally. Enjoy a treat of an orange in the middle of winter that was shipped in from florida, thats fine, but Know where its coming from and what its cost is, and what new wonderful flavours are just outside your window.

[NovaStream331]

i live in canada and i preserve the summer bounty that grows around me, garden in my back yard, sprout and grow herbs and lettuces indoors for the winter and i just bought 20 kg of apples that were grown 15 Km from my home. they are fresh tasty and preservative free and its the middle of February. Instead of thinking up new technologies to ship foreign foods

[LuvAndLaughter]

@NovaStream331 well bully for you! I do not have the luxury of a)owning my own home and hence do not have the added luxury of storing things for extended period of time. The vast majority of the Canadian population is in a similar boat.  I cannot even buy dry goods for more than a couple of weeks at a time. The suggestions are not very feasible for the average Canadian and therefore we have no choice but buy food that is shipped in.

[TheWunderbarr]

@LuvAndLaughter I don't own a home and have debt, but that doesn't stop me from eating the amazing FREE food that grows everywhere in Canada and preserving it or just eating it while in season.

The vast majority of the Canadian population buys crap food because they like convenience items & don't like shopping anywhere but their supermarket.

BUYING LOCAL is easy (if you take the time to learn where food comes from), and it supports our economy and our health. Did I mention it tastes 100x better?

[LuvAndLaughter]

@TheWunderbarr you don't even know me or my background yet have the nerve to tell me to 'learn where food comes from". I grew up on Canada's prairies, & know full well WHERE food comes from, HOW it gets to our tables and the WORK involved to getting it there. I support the local farmer when their produce is in season but don't want to eat cabbage and turnips all winter. I can't freeze veggies with only a fridge freezer so if I can't buy it what do YOU, oh all knowing one, suggest?

[LuvAndLaughter]

How freaking stupid can you people get??? Canada is a country that boasts 5-6 months of winter every year. of the remaining 6-7 months at least half of that is not growing weather. How the heck to you propose that we eat CANADIAN???? Where the F*** are we supposed to get fresh tomatoes, cucumbers apples, pears and oranges in the middle of the raging winter. How dumb are you guys?

[Columbidae1]

This really shows how much foresight our local and federal politicians have! None! ZERO! Zip!.

At the end of the day we are paying more.Why are our grocery stores carrying apples from Fiji and South Africa? Like think of the cost to ship it here?

[FODOR00]

Hey Canadian people! I'm from Hungary, and sadly we have the same situation, like you. :(

Don't let the capitalist moneycentric countries taking over your country! USA secret plan is forming the North American Union with your country in the near future! Don't let it to be happen, stay independent and fight for your freedom!

[rockyandbullwinkle94]

OH MY GOD! The economy is going to drop because we're buying food FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!? As consumer whores, it's our responsibility to fall into a chasm of panic about our own welfare! Good thing I can still buy Hellman's because it's Canadian. To save the economy. Thanks, Hellmans. How convenient.

also, I suppose them buying eggs in a country across the goddamn atlantic makes it more authentic. that's sort of Canadian, right?

[kevinw1canada]

It's a good start, to get those who are not yet thinking about this stuff, more aware. But is "Canadian" the same as local? Canada's a big place, I'm in BC, so potatoes from PEI come a lot further than some from WA state. In reality, we grow enough potatoes in our front yard to last us the year, so we don't buy either kind, but mixing up "buy Canadian" with "buy local" isn't all that helpful.

[andreacanadian]

Now if only we could apply this to everything we buy....choose canadian whenever and wherever possible

[usmdressage]

Get off your butts and grow your own food... yes even you people who live in cities... or buy local as often as you can... It might not solve the big picture but it would help keep our local farmers alive and good food on our tables!

[bmwrocks325]

were just lucky to have oil in the west to help the economy

[Handichapped]

AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[PeggyfromPorcupine]

What has Hellmann's got to do with this commercial AND since when was a 'commercial' almost 3 minutes long?

[limabeing]

i buy local from a local butcher and veggies from my indoor growtents

[GuitarPansy]

Psshh too bad all our milk is imported too... why? Oh maybe because it costs about $20,000 for one quota for one cow to sell milk. Sucks to be a dairy farmer here.

[farmboy352]

@GuitarPansy Unfortunately, you are misinformed about this tidbit of knowledge. Yes, we have supply management for milk production, which requires farmers to purchase quota. In return, we are guaranteed a fair return on our investment with a stable milkprice and limited competition from imports because the government enforces high tarriffs to import dairy products. If you go to your local supermarket, nearly all dairy products sport the little blue cow signinfying Canadian produced milk is used.

[divaloulou]

Canada is a slowly-dying colony. Read Jane Jacobs on the topic of separatism; a real eye-opener! And now that Mr. Harper is bringing royalty back, the colony part may be the only thing that survives of Canada.

For food:

Proper labels, proper organic, from local sources.

[linneasr]

Wow, this is brilliant. Read "Empires of Food" and understand how important this is.

[gaarasrulestheworld]

We import because it's cheaper.

We eat unhealthy because it's cheaper.

We outsource jobs to other countries because it's cheaper.

We waste so much because it's cheaper to buy things that break or get worn out easily.

See a pattern here? Maybe we should stop focusing on quantity and focus on quality.

[jamesgray78]

Canadian food would be nowhere near as cheap as it is if it were all produced locally, and you probably wouldn't have near as much choice as well. This video - while an excellent production - is scaremongering and half-truths designed to garner support for an noncompetitive Canadian agricultural industry, which only manages to continue due to government subsidy - ie, your tax dollars. :-)

[dmpsodapop]

Canada sucks!

[Handichapped]

@dmpsodapop eh, fuck you buddy!

[canmoore]

What they are not telling you, is that the local farmer gets paid something like 10 cents per bushel for example. The grocery stores, than turn around and charge you 2 dollars a pound!!

The real problem is farming is simply not profitable for the average farmer, unless you are a enrmoumus multinational farming company with millions of acres of land. Thus no one wants to farm in Canada, so we import from other countries!!

[freakygeaktwo]

this makes me think we should be able to grow what we want in our front and or back yards in the growing season without fear of breaking some laws and by able to grow I mean food wise things that can be used in cooking or eaten on the spot.

[Handichapped]

@freakygeaktwo I know a lot of people who grow their own veggies, herbs, and spices right in their own backyards and it all tastes ten times better (Mojitos with fresh-picked mint go down too easy on a hot summer day); I'm pretty sure The Man hasn't gone after them. Mojito.

[freakygeaktwo]

@Handichapped when I was younger the city got help from the courts to make somebody dig up veggies that most could not see unless looking over a fence so I'm always expecting police to come round asking questions. dumb but it life. I'll never try Mojito as I don't drink :( but I'm sure it's good.

[ninjadance]

as noted hellmann s is owned by unilever; a huge company that does horrific animal testing

[LatvjuAvs]

@ninjadance horrific animal testing beats horrific human testing.

[totophi]

@ninjadance

That makes it even more ironic when you realize the video encourages you to seek out national or local alternatives that may or may not involve Unilever. If you think about it, this is a remarkably holistic and partiotic approach. So maybe there's a larger purpose here.

[Zeplike1234]

I LOVE strawberries, but do i really NEED to have them year round? I dont think so. In fact, maybe i would enjoy them a little more if i were only to have them while they were in season.

[demonickknight]

I've noticed some food coming from China now...DISGUSTING

[sparkachu]

I like this commercial.

It's really sad when we do see Ontario land plowed over for suburbs :(

[MaryAnn4peace]

Its called Globalisation, maximum profits for corporations, the Rich get richer,the poor get poorer, the government bureaucrathy grows and metastasizes like a deadly cancer, whole armies of Frankensteins in the laboratories. Trained killers are being send out into the world to bring "PEACE", "Humanitarian Intervention"

How many of you folks cared about the fate of the people who were faithfully producing your food, and were being slandered by Media Whores?

Suck it up, deal with it.

Werner B

[xander0713]

wow...incredibly confusing when you don't have sound.

[MrClank98]

@xander0713 hmmm. if only there was a clearcut solution to this crazy conundrm...get some speakers retard!! And save your inane comments for something a little less relevent.

[xander0713]

@MrClank98 ya, I suppose there wasn't a possibility that in that specific situation, I wasn't able to play the video with sound? Guess that's just way too complex for someone to understand.

[Yardy1234]

Everyone whos canadian watching this should send it to their friends and family and post it on the fb :P

[bookersbay]

To the Commenter re: food in season.. : It grows in greenhouses, anywhere in Ontario, throughout the Winter months..

To the Commenter re: cheaper to buy imported..: you'd rather pay an American who hires illegals to pick your food, than a Canadian Farmer who has his family and hired LEGAL help pick it..? Why do you think there's always the risk of Hepatitis A from American vegetables and fruit? The illegals are druggies who only pick for a day to support their habits, then, are gone back over.

[djrootmusic]

Umm -- could the fact that we want -- and now have -- cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers available year-round be th reason for the increased imports? We can only eat "fresh local food" when its in season.

[SugarSweet182]

Wow, i think this commercial should be broadcasted on TV again.

[theRealThatwoman]

It's because we don't export tobacco --and it is worth a whole lot more to farmers.

[ssinn]

Why does this have so little views??

[calindor23]

Two things causing this: American Farm Subsidy and NAFTA. What is happening with food is happening with every other industry as well. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

[poxzen]

Don't eat local, Garden! If we all decided to eat locally all of sudden, there would be no where near enough food to eat. We all need to do is garden and grow food for our selves and share the excess, that's true food security. And if you don't think you can support your selves and or your family on your own little plot of city land, then you better get up and educate your self, cause yeah, it's possible. Look to older generations for proof. It's there.

[dalamar799]

@PeterWrangel you got owned, bitch!

[IceSlushi]

0:57 Pearvalanche!

[akmusica]

Hellmann's is owned by Unilever, one of the largest food and consumer products companies in the world, and very much a part of current economic food systems in which it's detesting.

Perhaps it should send a memo up to head office first.

[mudguts]

wow.. that disgusts me.

a lot of my friends are farmers.. and we shop mainly at farmer markets (in the summer).

this is one scary thought.

[prairiemaiden330]

What an eye opener. Thanks for the reminder.

[PeterWrangel]

Obvious the gray suits at Hellmann's haven't heard of David Riccardo and Comparative Advantage.

Why is all this food imported? Why have meat imports gone up 600% in the last 40 years? Because it's cheaper to buy it abroad. And spending less money on food means people have more money to spend on other things.

Trade is what sets people free and creates real wealth and prosperity. Localism is a farce counteracting the last 250 years of economic progress

[OgallalaKnowhow]

@PeterWrangel

BS.

Just because something is cheaper in the short term does not make it substantially better for society or the economy. If importing food reduces the nutritional content, undercuts domestic agricultural jobs and business, and is more dependent on petroleum (for transport and fertilizer), well, then eventually the real net disadvantages are going to make whatever price advantages redundant.

Enough of the grandiose theories of progress. Too much is at stake for such fluff.

[celticphrog]

@PeterWrangel

Real wealth for whom? Certainly not for producers in Canada, nor for producers overseas either. Not really for the people who buy the "cheap" food without thinking about issues of food quality and safety. Imported food is good only for the corporations who profit from huge margins on food.

The last 250 years of "economic progress" has seen the gap between rich and poor expand exponentially. Local economies will shrink that gap.

[Shian222]

that's is great information , and I hear Hellmanns is beginning to use free run eggs, but please stop using plastic bottles, that is why i don't buy it anymore.