This is stupid. Every country specializes in what they are good at and trades their extra products for what they aren't good at making. This way everybody gets more of everything. Canada isn't great at growing vegetables and fruits, so we make what we are good at and trade it for them.
@ReticRhinoMan oh let me guess .. from the US? well if you think Canada is bad, check out the southern food situation, they don't produce a variety of foods either. Corn, soy, wheat, GMO corn, GMO soy, and GMO wheat.. Canadians are trying to stop American exports of their GM foods.. ITS GARBAGE.. AND TOXIC and we don't want it in Canada.
I'm canadian and I prefer to buy foreign foods. Its not because I hate Canada, or our farmers, or whatever. Its because it costs less. I recently went to a farmers market, thinking that I might start to buy locally. However, I found that the price of vegetables there to be a lot higher that those of local supermarkets. 89 cent/pound for tomatoes? Nope. 3.99/pound. Apples 99 cents a pound? Nope. 4.29/ pound.
@turretsCanada that is so unfortunate.. of course it is cheaper to buy imported foods, its common economics of supply and demand. There is a great supply of imported food so it becomes cheap. Especially considering that the farmers in most of these countries are living and feeding their families for less than a dollar a day. They produce cheap food for us to eat while starving themselves just to make a buck. Not only are you hurting your own country, but your health, as the standards not same...
People need to stop assuming that Walmart is the place to buy groceries. Take a hard look at your diet, your food supply. In the name of "food safety"??. The hard part is teaching people to not be so stupid. At some point, the government has legislated itself into the position of supreme power over our stomachs, and you know what they say....an army travels on it's stomach. Control the food, control the population.
…The ONE CURE for ALL Political, Economic, Civic, and Social Evils is a Scientific, MONEYLESS, Full-Employment, Consumer-Based Economy that will build Ideal, Private, Self-Sufficient, Self-Governing, Populated-Limited, Family Owned Sovereign Cities that will replace primitive Bankster/Investor/Government-based Money-Barter Economies that build Unplanned, Crime-Ridden, Mixed Race, Public Slumlord Slave-Labor Concentration Camps.
…See YouTube "The Revolutionary ConsumerCard Article”.
To my fellow Americans: Our farmers are the food industries bitchs. The food we eat at mc Donalds is not only bad for you but it's source it comes from could easily kill you. But then if your dead they can't really sell their products. It burdens me to say that a man like me who used to eat pounds of meat refuses to eat that bullshit they serve(litteraly some of it has fecal matter in it) I would rather go from being a 230pound meat eating all American man to a 150pound man. Btw it's cheaper to
I'm not Canadian but I approve of this message. To ricktbdgc: Welcome to the Dawn of the New Age (of ogligarchy). The Mess Age is simple. What a mess this age is.
Hey did you know that molson canadian beer is owned by americans!? The commercial for the stuff still to this day has images of canada, to summon a feeling of patriotism to buy the beer in our own name. FUCK that.. How the hell are we supposed to know shit about anything you can't even believe what is told to us.. made in canada? or made FROM canada, sold back to us at a premium, but wheres the money go? us corporations. The concept of a village is gone, we are part of the machine now
I'm Canadian and NOW I understand why all the fruit tastes like NOTHING. No taste at all, unripened, water tasting or sour pieces of nothing for how much??? US might be growing food out of their "asses" but who the fuck cares if it has no taste?? Everything is artificial in the states now along with geneticaly and hormonaly induced produce. You can keep it, proud USA!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
The grocery store are part of the people to blame, cause they can play the game of getting the cheapest price. For instance let says it's blueberry time, now they want to get it as low as possible,to give them a spot on the shelf, versus trying to for canadian product to be use. I've seen that game for new brunswick potatoes, and other vegetables. Buy all you can straight from the producer, it's the best way to keep the money in the country.
bullshit. Whoever makes the food can decide what to do with it themselves, ship it out or eat it. The same goes for the people who imports food. Just be happy with the low prices
I want to know how much of this shit is really GMO! I've had produce with a PLU code that said it was grown conventionally, when it was obviously GMO! Example: a tomato that is left out of the fridge for a week and isn't even soft yet.
I don't get the whole "local food movement". I think what people really want is accountable food. I want to know who grew it and when, so I can know how old it is, and if it's part of a bad batch or part of a farm land that uses something I don't want on my food (like pesticides.)
Thanks Hellmann's, great vid. But we also consumers need to buy direct from local farmers through farmer's markets and community-supported agriculture agreements. Institutions and large retailers selling massive amounts of food need to make it their policy to buy local too!
I like this video. We should support our own. More people should know about this and realize the importance of self-sufficiency. EXPORT... not IMPORT.
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
1:16 Impacts your health number 1, the further the product is, the worse. Its picked unripe and covered is pesticide and preservatives , your eating toxic garbage
Bring on the cheap food. I want blueberries from Argentina in February. When fruit and veg is in season locally, I'll buy it because it's better but I'm not going to eat rutabaga and cabbage all winter.
And... I'm sorry, but that site is BS. I can't get fresh corn in Ontario in winter.
This the main cause of why everything is so damn expensive!!!
We have shit loads of land, but No one wants to invest the money 2 be producing so we import everything (mostly from U.S)
ANd if we do make our own food? We will create more jobs. and the cost of living will drop. But Canada doesn't think about cost price. because we're all billionaires in their eyes. :s
@m33lad Take an economics class. It would be MORE expensive if Canada produced food because it takes Canada more resources to grow, say oranges, than Florida does. If we all specialize in what we're good at then food is cheaper. If you don't believe me go farm oranges and try to sell them under 79 cents each and live comfortably.
Canadians are to cheap to pay the real cost of food, Especially those in Eastern Canada. Wheta was $3.00 a bushel 80 years ago...today, $3.00 a bushel and we can't even grind it ourselves and make flour and bread from it...value adding. Bet rid of the CWB, which Ontario and Quebec don't have to abide by, the egg and milk production boards, which Quebec dominates and let competition reign. Get the gov't out of farming As far as organic, starve or remortgage the house. production is 1/3
Well, it's winter about 57% of the time so how else would you get fresh vegetables and fruit year round? Eat local when you can.
When I was growing up the only produce we had in the winter was canned. In the summer we practically lived on fresh peaches. Today I can't even look at a peach!
sry, but in this economy, bottom line is how much its going to cost us. Consumers will always purchase cheaper goods, no matter what, unless we get the luxury of spoiling ourselves on organic, healthy and/or local produce. Look at Wal-mart!
I'd rather spend my money on healthy local produce then Fast Food and inflated restaurant prices for a quick meal fix. I'm not a firm believer in 100 % organic practices since the amount of yield you get in the crop dose suffer but if you want tasteless tomatoes from Mexico it's your call.
Nice lobbying propaganda. This does not make sense in a globalized world. What they're appealing for is more subsidization (paying farmers in rich nations triple what they make themselves to undercut famers in poor countries whose survival depends on selling to richer nations).
By convincing yourselves that it's Canada's priority to grow tomatoes rather than produce cars & porno films, you're halting development in the 3rd world, thus contributing to world poverty & hunger.
Forcing developing countries to produce monoculture-grown GMO fruits and vegetables in order to stock 1st world grocery stores is NOT development, and actually has a devastating impact on the local environment and economy in those countries. Maybe you should stop watching so much Canadian-made porn and do some research. Local is best for everyone.
Developed countries produce more genetically modified food than anyone. And the farmers in rich nations benefit from growing that crap while the farmers in poor nations benefit from growing organic, which they try to do when possible.
Indeed local is better for everyone in a perfect world. And in a perfect world, water wouldn't' be routed away from Mexican farmers to power the Hoover dam for Las Vegas. 1 billion people wouldn't be starving in a perfect world.
In oder to be organic food you cant use anykind of man made herbicides,pesticides or fertilizer.Farmers will tell you that being organic is a huge pain in the ass and alot of work ! Go google it and do some reading..
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
I have to question some of their stats - I would rather drink packed in Canada Orange Juice than Packed in China orange juice - Same for coffee - Many food additives come from afar and we have the capacity to make them here
I'm pretty sure farmers do very well no matter the market. Hurray for subsidies. Not just in Canada, the European Union dedicates %40 of its spending as subsidies for farmers. The US pays out farmers NOT to over-produce...
yea ur rite about that in the u.k we export loads of lamb from n.z 2 the u.k we can produce them cheeper here than they can grow them them selfs seem werd seen as how thers plenty of farm land especialy in scottland but as the locals say they r paid 2 farm birds and butterflys or to have a bird nest in ther paddock or even strainger not to have anything at all on your land its called set aside work that out.i carnt.
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
We should all be boycotting McDonalds in Canada anyway, since they made the decision a few months ago to get all the beef they use here from South America. They wouldnt get away with that down in the states.
the funny thing is i buy Canadian tomatoes all the time at winco down here in southern cali... so wtf is up with that? are Canadians getting u.s. grown tomatoes? its just insane! although Canadian tomatoes are ever so tasty! i <3 Canada!
Nice video. Maybe if people would just think for a second, instead of putting another crappy Mcdonalds why don't they use that space for farming crops or whatever. I mean sometimes they just put stupid shit that takes up so much space and is totally useless to us.
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
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yeah but u see the problem is that as long as more immigrants come in to Canada, the jobs held by Canadian farmers are lost due to the high costs of importing, and those costs are made by the new immigrants wanting there tradional foods that aren't made in Canada.
The brainless and the self serving are out in force in this comments section. How typically selfish. The problem is simple - food travels from places where it can be produced cheaply. This happens at huge cost to the environment. It's a worldwide phenomenon and the solution is simple but difficult.
So you buy local and the biggest local farmer passes on and his family isn't into farming. They sell the land , the house is made into a bed and breakfast, the barn is now horse stables and the farm land is being subdivided ! Now what ? Wal-marts24/7 and everyone is cool with that
@indez23 actually everyone is not cool with that. I'm not. And the reason the local farm gets turned into a b&b? because we did not support it. We bought our food from mass-farms in Mexico (and other countries) that pay their labourers pennies WE are to blame for local farms failing, not the farmer's family. Small scale farms are not able to make it unless WE change, WE buy from them, STOP shopping at Wal-Mart, shop local.
If you listen closely to what the narrator says, she doesn't actually give any reason why it matters where Canadians food comes from, other than the implication that if the world trading system completely falls apart it will be easier to get food nearby. She hints at the economy and the environment but there's no actual case made. The whole thing is an appeal to emotion.
The problem concerns all the world the food producing countries too, the prices are so high thanks to the exports if everybody eat what they produce there would be a balance ,,, I hope
I hope people realize that the reason for food being imported, was from the beginning so that they could get cheaper things. If Canada for example, stopped importing food for instance, than it's food prices would probably leap massively for awhile. So it really is a trade off in the end.
local food is still available in Canadian grocery stores, people just don't realize and or care when they pick their produce. if Canadians made a conscious decision to at least buy more local it would benefit the economy, we would never only buy local because we are so multicultural that many customers shopping at the local grocery aren't even Canadian and don't care to support local farmers and are supporting their home country by not buying local! Call me an ass but i witness it every day
This is just some more of the misguided nonsense being circulated these days. The makers of this video obviously have no idea about economics or environmental effects of farming, otherwise they wouldn't be feeding this rubbish to the masses.
How do I lock down a supply of midgets for my farm operation? Who sent you?!?!?! And how long till the back pain kicks in? are mexican midgets the best?!?!?!
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this is a no brainer. a majority of canada is a fuckin frozen waste land. go figure that only a few provinces can suppluy fertile farm land. fuckin daft nigs. o and yeah FUCK canada. cept for bc and toronto.
All foods contain pesticide. Do you think foods without synthetic pesticides keep the bugs away by sitting down with them and negotiating a treaty of non-aggression?
And another phrase for "No Preservatives" is "Currently Rotting." If something isn't being preserved, then it's rotting, right?
My point isn't about pesticides or preservatives per se, rather it is to try to get people to drop the dogma and pre-conceived notions. "Natural" isn't automatically better, with respect to anything.
Yep in Jamaica, foreign food is cheaper than domestic grown food. At the end of the day Jamaican farmer is hurting. Nothing is free or fair about free trade.
Politicians are like transformers. Politicians con men in disguise! Politicians more than meets the eye! So stop trusting the television, research the fools before we vote them in. When we choose not to think for ourselves, those that do will not only think for us, but also control us.
I blame these dam "free trade agreements". Any time a politician talks about free trade, we should "free trade" them out of their office with someone with the interest of the people at heart. What makes me upset is that these politicians are destroying the country they live in. Why would anyone destroy a place they call home? Why would anyone destroy the country of constituents who put them in office? What stops the constituents from learning more about the person before voting them in?
LOL, at going back to the gold standard. Who do you think has all the gold? If you did that, the NWO would be the only people with any money. The banks have already taken everything of real value and replaced it with pieces of paper and bits on computer disks, so we're kind of screwed and at their mercy either way.
I posted before that if producing food locally is so important then shouldn't we use the land cleared when the Twin Towers were knocked down to plant food for people that live in NYC? Someone asked what I meant. My point is, if location were all that mattered then we should use Twin Towers land to plant food for people in NYC so we wouldn't have to ship it in. Should we do that? Why or why not?
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This is stupid. Every country specializes in what they are good at and trades their extra products for what they aren't good at making. This way everybody gets more of everything. Canada isn't great at growing vegetables and fruits, so we make what we are good at and trade it for them.
LaPerrucheVerte 3 days ago
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LaPerrucheVerte 3 days ago
Fresh City Farms is a great option for anyone in Toronto!
beebnut 1 month ago
haha stupid canadians!!
ReticRhinoMan 4 months ago
@ReticRhinoMan oh let me guess .. from the US? well if you think Canada is bad, check out the southern food situation, they don't produce a variety of foods either. Corn, soy, wheat, GMO corn, GMO soy, and GMO wheat.. Canadians are trying to stop American exports of their GM foods.. ITS GARBAGE.. AND TOXIC and we don't want it in Canada.
DannerSauce 2 weeks ago
I'm canadian and I prefer to buy foreign foods. Its not because I hate Canada, or our farmers, or whatever. Its because it costs less. I recently went to a farmers market, thinking that I might start to buy locally. However, I found that the price of vegetables there to be a lot higher that those of local supermarkets. 89 cent/pound for tomatoes? Nope. 3.99/pound. Apples 99 cents a pound? Nope. 4.29/ pound.
turretsCanada 6 months ago 2
@turretsCanada that is so unfortunate.. of course it is cheaper to buy imported foods, its common economics of supply and demand. There is a great supply of imported food so it becomes cheap. Especially considering that the farmers in most of these countries are living and feeding their families for less than a dollar a day. They produce cheap food for us to eat while starving themselves just to make a buck. Not only are you hurting your own country, but your health, as the standards not same...
DannerSauce 2 weeks ago
390 dislikes because there are stacks more Americans than Canadians on the internet. ....
rbodinnar 6 months ago
People need to stop assuming that Walmart is the place to buy groceries. Take a hard look at your diet, your food supply. In the name of "food safety"??. The hard part is teaching people to not be so stupid. At some point, the government has legislated itself into the position of supreme power over our stomachs, and you know what they say....an army travels on it's stomach. Control the food, control the population.
therealtabby 7 months ago 2
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This is really inspiring
imbenezene 7 months ago
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This is really inspiring
imbenezene 7 months ago
…The ONE CURE for ALL Political, Economic, Civic, and Social Evils is a Scientific, MONEYLESS, Full-Employment, Consumer-Based Economy that will build Ideal, Private, Self-Sufficient, Self-Governing, Populated-Limited, Family Owned Sovereign Cities that will replace primitive Bankster/Investor/Government-based Money-Barter Economies that build Unplanned, Crime-Ridden, Mixed Race, Public Slumlord Slave-Labor Concentration Camps.
…See YouTube "The Revolutionary ConsumerCard Article”.
CivilizedMan444 7 months ago
To my fellow Americans: Our farmers are the food industries bitchs. The food we eat at mc Donalds is not only bad for you but it's source it comes from could easily kill you. But then if your dead they can't really sell their products. It burdens me to say that a man like me who used to eat pounds of meat refuses to eat that bullshit they serve(litteraly some of it has fecal matter in it) I would rather go from being a 230pound meat eating all American man to a 150pound man. Btw it's cheaper to
CalebTheObjective 7 months ago
The only thing that involves and from Canada is maple syrup.
Anikan1005 9 months ago
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it helped my bro
karishma779 11 months ago
i helped my bro
karishma779 11 months ago
I'm not Canadian but I approve of this message. To ricktbdgc: Welcome to the Dawn of the New Age (of ogligarchy). The Mess Age is simple. What a mess this age is.
uspowerbase 11 months ago
Hey did you know that molson canadian beer is owned by americans!? The commercial for the stuff still to this day has images of canada, to summon a feeling of patriotism to buy the beer in our own name. FUCK that.. How the hell are we supposed to know shit about anything you can't even believe what is told to us.. made in canada? or made FROM canada, sold back to us at a premium, but wheres the money go? us corporations. The concept of a village is gone, we are part of the machine now
ricktbdgc 1 year ago
lmao who gives a fk
fpsisfun 1 year ago
I'm Canadian and NOW I understand why all the fruit tastes like NOTHING. No taste at all, unripened, water tasting or sour pieces of nothing for how much??? US might be growing food out of their "asses" but who the fuck cares if it has no taste?? Everything is artificial in the states now along with geneticaly and hormonaly induced produce. You can keep it, proud USA!
StinkyFlyfart 1 year ago
im in america we owe billions of dollars of oil but who cares we have food growing out our asses lol
tobianator1 1 year ago
lol canadians
GatGatHabitat 1 year ago
This really is an excellent production. Thank you to whoever posted this.
DreamStars21 1 year ago
canada was never self sufficient. everyone knows that -_-
syaoranpies 1 year ago
my friend thinks i'm to picky when just want to eat real food
wobinga7 1 year ago
Wow we need a US version of this! Amazing work!
nathyhal 1 year ago 2
Go on!!!
Be as greedy as you can!!!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
carlospfontes 1 year ago
Same here, fruit from chile and mexico grown w/ human feces and bulk apple juice, seafood from china and vietnam.
iamtheomega 1 year ago
I wanna live in Canada
maztertails 1 year ago
The grocery store are part of the people to blame, cause they can play the game of getting the cheapest price. For instance let says it's blueberry time, now they want to get it as low as possible,to give them a spot on the shelf, versus trying to for canadian product to be use. I've seen that game for new brunswick potatoes, and other vegetables. Buy all you can straight from the producer, it's the best way to keep the money in the country.
PaRtOuZZZ 1 year ago
CANADIA IZ DA WAI 2 GO
Coltranized 1 year ago
bullshit. Whoever makes the food can decide what to do with it themselves, ship it out or eat it. The same goes for the people who imports food. Just be happy with the low prices
stiiigert 1 year ago
I want to know how much of this shit is really GMO! I've had produce with a PLU code that said it was grown conventionally, when it was obviously GMO! Example: a tomato that is left out of the fridge for a week and isn't even soft yet.
RandyBful1 1 year ago
I don't get the whole "local food movement". I think what people really want is accountable food. I want to know who grew it and when, so I can know how old it is, and if it's part of a bad batch or part of a farm land that uses something I don't want on my food (like pesticides.)
linagee 1 year ago
Thanks Hellmann's, great vid. But we also consumers need to buy direct from local farmers through farmer's markets and community-supported agriculture agreements. Institutions and large retailers selling massive amounts of food need to make it their policy to buy local too!
getyourlawnoffdrugs 1 year ago
I like this video. We should support our own. More people should know about this and realize the importance of self-sufficiency. EXPORT... not IMPORT.
JackReacher2 1 year ago
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@JackReacher2 Go on!!!
Be as greedy as you can!!!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
carlospfontes 1 year ago
1:16 Impacts your health number 1, the further the product is, the worse. Its picked unripe and covered is pesticide and preservatives , your eating toxic garbage
poshdelux 1 year ago 4
do we watch in Ontario
or we deny the reality
haso1957 3 weeks ago
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haso1957 3 weeks ago
it really does show the truth, the food system is so messed up that it aint even funny, especially in the US.
MrBowwowman 1 year ago
Bring on the cheap food. I want blueberries from Argentina in February. When fruit and veg is in season locally, I'll buy it because it's better but I'm not going to eat rutabaga and cabbage all winter.
And... I'm sorry, but that site is BS. I can't get fresh corn in Ontario in winter.
culdesachero 1 year ago
This the main cause of why everything is so damn expensive!!!
We have shit loads of land, but No one wants to invest the money 2 be producing so we import everything (mostly from U.S)
ANd if we do make our own food? We will create more jobs. and the cost of living will drop. But Canada doesn't think about cost price. because we're all billionaires in their eyes. :s
m33lad 1 year ago 3
@m33lad Take an economics class. It would be MORE expensive if Canada produced food because it takes Canada more resources to grow, say oranges, than Florida does. If we all specialize in what we're good at then food is cheaper. If you don't believe me go farm oranges and try to sell them under 79 cents each and live comfortably.
LaPerrucheVerte 3 days ago
Canadians are to cheap to pay the real cost of food, Especially those in Eastern Canada. Wheta was $3.00 a bushel 80 years ago...today, $3.00 a bushel and we can't even grind it ourselves and make flour and bread from it...value adding. Bet rid of the CWB, which Ontario and Quebec don't have to abide by, the egg and milk production boards, which Quebec dominates and let competition reign. Get the gov't out of farming As far as organic, starve or remortgage the house. production is 1/3
blackjack502 1 year ago
Well, it's winter about 57% of the time so how else would you get fresh vegetables and fruit year round? Eat local when you can.
When I was growing up the only produce we had in the winter was canned. In the summer we practically lived on fresh peaches. Today I can't even look at a peach!
CanadiaNecro1 2 years ago
isn't there a banned on pesticides
virusvial 2 years ago
Local food is awesome I have never eaten store bought meet or eggs at home because we grow it.
123riaccoonsz 2 years ago 2
sry, but in this economy, bottom line is how much its going to cost us. Consumers will always purchase cheaper goods, no matter what, unless we get the luxury of spoiling ourselves on organic, healthy and/or local produce. Look at Wal-mart!
AmirTheIncredible 2 years ago 2
Good Food For Everyone!
GrammaWilli 2 years ago
I'd rather spend my money on healthy local produce then Fast Food and inflated restaurant prices for a quick meal fix. I'm not a firm believer in 100 % organic practices since the amount of yield you get in the crop dose suffer but if you want tasteless tomatoes from Mexico it's your call.
anibee 2 years ago 2
unbelievable sheesh farmers get the shaft it is ridiculous
1puglife 2 years ago
And now I'm hungry.
dglekjofg 2 years ago
Nice lobbying propaganda. This does not make sense in a globalized world. What they're appealing for is more subsidization (paying farmers in rich nations triple what they make themselves to undercut famers in poor countries whose survival depends on selling to richer nations).
By convincing yourselves that it's Canada's priority to grow tomatoes rather than produce cars & porno films, you're halting development in the 3rd world, thus contributing to world poverty & hunger.
endSTUPIDcomments 2 years ago
Forcing developing countries to produce monoculture-grown GMO fruits and vegetables in order to stock 1st world grocery stores is NOT development, and actually has a devastating impact on the local environment and economy in those countries. Maybe you should stop watching so much Canadian-made porn and do some research. Local is best for everyone.
jonimckervey 2 years ago 3
Developed countries produce more genetically modified food than anyone. And the farmers in rich nations benefit from growing that crap while the farmers in poor nations benefit from growing organic, which they try to do when possible.
Indeed local is better for everyone in a perfect world. And in a perfect world, water wouldn't' be routed away from Mexican farmers to power the Hoover dam for Las Vegas. 1 billion people wouldn't be starving in a perfect world.
endSTUPIDcomments 2 years ago 3
"farmers in poor nations benefit from growing organic"
Idiot. They use cheap toxic pesticides. You're a troll. Get lost.
tiptiptapable 2 years ago 2
@tiptiptapable If its true organic they dont use anykind of man made pesticides !!
rattlinurcage3 2 years ago
hhmmm, well where does most organic food come from using statistics.. are there some stats?
tiptiptapable 2 years ago
In oder to be organic food you cant use anykind of man made herbicides,pesticides or fertilizer.Farmers will tell you that being organic is a huge pain in the ass and alot of work ! Go google it and do some reading..
rattlinurcage3 2 years ago
no I meant COUNTRIES that most organic food comes from
tiptiptapable 2 years ago
yeah!!! eat local!!!
sidsthirdeye 2 years ago 2
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOOT?
Skatem93 2 years ago
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@Skatem93 Go on!!!
Be as greedy as you can!!!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
carlospfontes 1 year ago
banana republic... ;)
synttalk 2 years ago
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Canada imports 50% of its pakies. The other 50% are Canada-made. hahahaa
sharkloaner 2 years ago
LOL. I like this. :D
SPthatFUNK 2 years ago
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im like 10000000000 km from canada lol Y THE FAAAAAAAAAAAAK AM WATCHIN THIS!@!@!@!
Gookkid 2 years ago
wai u do dis canada
TheWalrusOfLife 2 years ago
the US does it too
canascot02 2 years ago
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who cares about canada ne way. they just want to be america except they cant cuz its mad cold up there. yea canada definetly sucks EHHHH
MyFuckitall 2 years ago
I have to question some of their stats - I would rather drink packed in Canada Orange Juice than Packed in China orange juice - Same for coffee - Many food additives come from afar and we have the capacity to make them here
lagerabzd 2 years ago
This is the worst possible green washing. I don't know, Unilever, why don't you tell us if cheap imports are really worth it.
Leicentious2 2 years ago
REALLY NICE ANIMATION!
TITUSMAXIMO 2 years ago 3
why the hek i wach ths...¿
metallica999rock 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure farmers do very well no matter the market. Hurray for subsidies. Not just in Canada, the European Union dedicates %40 of its spending as subsidies for farmers. The US pays out farmers NOT to over-produce...
Sad.
va1987 2 years ago
yea ur rite about that in the u.k we export loads of lamb from n.z 2 the u.k we can produce them cheeper here than they can grow them them selfs seem werd seen as how thers plenty of farm land especialy in scottland but as the locals say they r paid 2 farm birds and butterflys or to have a bird nest in ther paddock or even strainger not to have anything at all on your land its called set aside work that out.i carnt.
boaraxa 2 years ago
Doesn't matter to me since it all ends up the same shit in the end.
wovokanarchy 2 years ago
More propaganda bullshit, probably all a scam. I live in Canada as well.
AsukaLangIeySoryu 2 years ago
hellmann's commercial? wtf? i dont find a problem with importing. less farm land means more natural forests and protected envrioments.
rey619yomama 2 years ago
big problem! Open your eyes.
evilemonattack 2 years ago
Secretly a plot for canada to take over the world
narutoidontknow 2 years ago 3
@narutoidontknow Go on!!!
Be as greedy as you can!!!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
carlospfontes 1 year ago
That sucks =/, I don't live in canada though so...
shadoweon 2 years ago
boooooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! !
WHAT AN AWFUL "COMERCIAL" FOR THE CANADA
matiz1988 2 years ago
Nice that they don't care about any other countries at all.
"we import only cuz we're lazy"
Let's not import from the poor contries let them rot!"
Bullshit.
skitzo76 2 years ago
We should all be boycotting McDonalds in Canada anyway, since they made the decision a few months ago to get all the beef they use here from South America. They wouldnt get away with that down in the states.
timtait2x 2 years ago 4
the funny thing is i buy Canadian tomatoes all the time at winco down here in southern cali... so wtf is up with that? are Canadians getting u.s. grown tomatoes? its just insane! although Canadian tomatoes are ever so tasty! i <3 Canada!
lainnorcal 2 years ago
Nice video. Maybe if people would just think for a second, instead of putting another crappy Mcdonalds why don't they use that space for farming crops or whatever. I mean sometimes they just put stupid shit that takes up so much space and is totally useless to us.
Android18DBZ 2 years ago 5
In this video: Brainwashed "alternative" teenagers believe bullshit propaganda.
Go canada!
F3tusRape 2 years ago
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@F3tusRape Go on!!!
Be as greedy as you can!!!
Let me understand. You want export as much as possible, but want to import as little as possible. It sounds familiar to me. Isn't it some thing from the middle ages?
People in Africa will buy you industrial products but they cannot sell anything to you. Let them starve isn't it?
carlospfontes 1 year ago
imported tomatoes taste like junk.
jerejohn 2 years ago 4
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yeah but u see the problem is that as long as more immigrants come in to Canada, the jobs held by Canadian farmers are lost due to the high costs of importing, and those costs are made by the new immigrants wanting there tradional foods that aren't made in Canada.
Think about that.
416park 2 years ago
this video shows the truth...
we all should follow this rules.....
MonaEngelchen 2 years ago 18
The brainless and the self serving are out in force in this comments section. How typically selfish. The problem is simple - food travels from places where it can be produced cheaply. This happens at huge cost to the environment. It's a worldwide phenomenon and the solution is simple but difficult.
Baxtersin 2 years ago
This is capitalism and consumerism starting to show their bad sides.
bambalambam 2 years ago
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Bullshit.
F3tusRape 2 years ago
you suck
misterfung 2 years ago
Maybe they don´t produce that much food, but they have Rush!!!
Semente200 2 years ago
So you buy local and the biggest local farmer passes on and his family isn't into farming. They sell the land , the house is made into a bed and breakfast, the barn is now horse stables and the farm land is being subdivided ! Now what ? Wal-marts24/7 and everyone is cool with that
indez23 2 years ago 5
@indez23 actually everyone is not cool with that. I'm not. And the reason the local farm gets turned into a b&b? because we did not support it. We bought our food from mass-farms in Mexico (and other countries) that pay their labourers pennies WE are to blame for local farms failing, not the farmer's family. Small scale farms are not able to make it unless WE change, WE buy from them, STOP shopping at Wal-Mart, shop local.
FunkyMunkysCa 1 year ago
@FunkyMunkysCa hell, they are trying to pass bills to outlaw growing a garden on your own property, people had made youtube vids about it.
CowboyBebop444 10 months ago
i don't care what i eat or where it comes from. as long as it tastes good
telamindel 2 years ago
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misterfung 2 years ago
If you listen closely to what the narrator says, she doesn't actually give any reason why it matters where Canadians food comes from, other than the implication that if the world trading system completely falls apart it will be easier to get food nearby. She hints at the economy and the environment but there's no actual case made. The whole thing is an appeal to emotion.
yonomow 2 years ago 5
This problem concerns all canadians!!! We MUST change our ways and convince others to do the same.
ericdaprick 2 years ago 4
This problem effects more then just one country.
Silkfox 2 years ago 5
The problem concerns all the world the food producing countries too, the prices are so high thanks to the exports if everybody eat what they produce there would be a balance ,,, I hope
vuffelch 2 years ago 3
I hope people realize that the reason for food being imported, was from the beginning so that they could get cheaper things. If Canada for example, stopped importing food for instance, than it's food prices would probably leap massively for awhile. So it really is a trade off in the end.
Octopi1 2 years ago
local food is still available in Canadian grocery stores, people just don't realize and or care when they pick their produce. if Canadians made a conscious decision to at least buy more local it would benefit the economy, we would never only buy local because we are so multicultural that many customers shopping at the local grocery aren't even Canadian and don't care to support local farmers and are supporting their home country by not buying local! Call me an ass but i witness it every day
merchant099 2 years ago
I'd say that's how Canadians will fix their country, by having people like you speak louder XD
And I'm not even a Canadian :D
Octopi1 2 years ago 2
screw it. i can't just judge food, yeah i know it helps the economy... but food is too good to be judged. and im not a fatty. lol
darkstar744 2 years ago
I would like to support you ,but can local food a little cheap
HonYi 2 years ago
every US system is in trouble. can we have some commercials? lol
nicolitamargerita 2 years ago
lol, u have bigger problems on your plate than local food, good luck with the commercial request though!
merchant099 2 years ago
i dont live in canada yeah!!!!
dickweed801 2 years ago 3
if this was a school project, i'd get an A+
OmgItzMathew 2 years ago 4
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lol CANADA = FAIL
PistolWhipYoMom 2 years ago
true
11111111111111s1 2 years ago
I subscribed as to hear more plus I Liked those little farms
reader1265 2 years ago
Sponsored by Hellmans???
kimsvoice2 2 years ago
are they calling america fat
piggiebob1234 2 years ago 3
come on! don't be in denial...
1belleinconnue2008 2 years ago
It looks like GDP is no more in the produce! Kinda scary and I do not know how to stop all this.!? SOMEONE STOP IT!
Wheres my Doritos.
griffontalons 2 years ago
are they calling america fat
piggiebob1234 2 years ago 2
haha hell mans
09204418448 2 years ago
yep its all about total control and take over. get ready for the nwo
comatose737 2 years ago
I totally agree. My man. Man does not live on bread alone but every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Someone said food is power more than once. As long as MSNBC keeps playin some may miss it.
griffontalons 2 years ago
OUR
menessag25 2 years ago
we need to grow are food and stop buying from other places it should be in the old days you know keep our jobs at home and keep our soil RICH
menessag25 2 years ago
we need more commercials like this in the states.
BboyFranki3 2 years ago 2
XD and i was planning to move to Canada. But I guess this is still somewhat better than the U.S?
Dranzeo 2 years ago
silly canadians =)
FelipeM714 2 years ago
Well I Do Not Care What Happen's I Am A Meatatarian (=
SoulReaper3397 2 years ago 2
This is just some more of the misguided nonsense being circulated these days. The makers of this video obviously have no idea about economics or environmental effects of farming, otherwise they wouldn't be feeding this rubbish to the masses.
ianuus 2 years ago
I only eat foods grown or raised by American midgets with lower back pain.
That's how I roll.
mbm13213 2 years ago
wtf was that supposed to mean, missed the joke.
Invain01 2 years ago
You think midgets are a joke?
WTF is wrong with you. They are people just like you and I.
They have feelings and they feel pain you cold hearted suon-of-a-bitch!!
mbm13213 2 years ago 4
???!?!??!?!?!?!?
How do I lock down a supply of midgets for my farm operation? Who sent you?!?!?! And how long till the back pain kicks in? are mexican midgets the best?!?!?!
Invain01 2 years ago
wtf? What a random conversation.
alliallialligator 2 years ago
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
kassidybodom 2 years ago
sorry wrong person lmao
lamobail357 2 years ago
Canada dose NOT SUCK
~Bailey ps skary jerk
lamobail357 2 years ago
Hear Hear! :)
alliallialligator 2 years ago
its sucks
merjokdean 2 years ago
awsom video...its true
yamasnik 2 years ago 4
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CheezSalad 2 years ago
so does CHEEZSALAD.. lol
TRU2myHEART 2 years ago
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this is a no brainer. a majority of canada is a fuckin frozen waste land. go figure that only a few provinces can suppluy fertile farm land. fuckin daft nigs. o and yeah FUCK canada. cept for bc and toronto.
Nobunga123 2 years ago
lol your american aren't you?
greeleykid 2 years ago 3
of course canada will have to import fruit its cold there.
paxbelly 2 years ago
so its good for the economy
bronzeonion 2 years ago
You know what that is called?
Capitalism.
Draxis32 2 years ago
Excellent post
GR8 points
Eat local! Grow ur own - even better
Badwolf182 2 years ago 6
this is FUNNY
bigwest25 2 years ago
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Who gives a shit, just eat.
FUCK Canada btw.
cryteeek 2 years ago
Maybe some idiots want to eat pesticide/preservative ridden fruits & veggies from God knows where... I sure as hell don't.
One of these days, someone is going to die from a Chinese apple...
fuggutube1 2 years ago
All foods contain pesticide. Do you think foods without synthetic pesticides keep the bugs away by sitting down with them and negotiating a treaty of non-aggression?
And another phrase for "No Preservatives" is "Currently Rotting." If something isn't being preserved, then it's rotting, right?
My point isn't about pesticides or preservatives per se, rather it is to try to get people to drop the dogma and pre-conceived notions. "Natural" isn't automatically better, with respect to anything.
yonomow 2 years ago
what ABOOT other products? ABOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!
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NowClickMe 2 years ago
the same thing is happening in jamaica
AlinaBarber 2 years ago 2
Yep in Jamaica, foreign food is cheaper than domestic grown food. At the end of the day Jamaican farmer is hurting. Nothing is free or fair about free trade.
kenman2k6 2 years ago 4
exactly
AlinaBarber 2 years ago
haha i thought was gonna be a parody when i first clicked it. haha but it was legit...
ihavelickedmyelbow 2 years ago
Haha, i was expecting something along the same lines. Something that would make me laugh. Now i actually learned something today.
xXxDROPDEADDAKOTAxXx 2 years ago
haha well i ended up laughing at it anyways...
ihavelickedmyelbow 2 years ago
Politicians are like transformers. Politicians con men in disguise! Politicians more than meets the eye! So stop trusting the television, research the fools before we vote them in. When we choose not to think for ourselves, those that do will not only think for us, but also control us.
kenman2k6 2 years ago
I blame these dam "free trade agreements". Any time a politician talks about free trade, we should "free trade" them out of their office with someone with the interest of the people at heart. What makes me upset is that these politicians are destroying the country they live in. Why would anyone destroy a place they call home? Why would anyone destroy the country of constituents who put them in office? What stops the constituents from learning more about the person before voting them in?
kenman2k6 2 years ago
That sucks, you guys should vote those politicians out. I am American and we are in the same boat when it comes to food.
kenman2k6 2 years ago
this sucks
ekskalibur111 2 years ago
News aside, this animation is cool!
MiddleEasternBorder 2 years ago 3
cool , nice canadians , keep importing foods from our country, let us take away all your money looool
horacechung 2 years ago
Yeah OK.... Im going to pay more money while everyone else saves- No thank you...Im not willing to be a cashier "martyr."
What we NEED to do is stop the New World Order and the manipulation of the world economy- go back to a GOLD standard, etc.
THEN, and only then will the average family be able to purchase ALL of their groceries from local sources.
In the meantime, that ECUADORIAN turkey and that Dominican corn is sure smelling great!!!! :-)
MrBiblia 2 years ago
LOL, at going back to the gold standard. Who do you think has all the gold? If you did that, the NWO would be the only people with any money. The banks have already taken everything of real value and replaced it with pieces of paper and bits on computer disks, so we're kind of screwed and at their mercy either way.
smariot 2 years ago
that Ecuadorian Turkey tasted great!!! hmmmm
Pass the Peruvian dessert, please.
MrBiblia 2 years ago
I posted before that if producing food locally is so important then shouldn't we use the land cleared when the Twin Towers were knocked down to plant food for people that live in NYC? Someone asked what I meant. My point is, if location were all that mattered then we should use Twin Towers land to plant food for people in NYC so we wouldn't have to ship it in. Should we do that? Why or why not?
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