Its not just garlic. I work at a highly selective private university and they feed the students frozen broccoli, tilapia, salmon, garlic, vegetable dumplings and apple juice - all from China. They claim it's all about price and budget constraints but it is really about maximum profit. I spend a lot of time talking with students who grew up in China and even they distrust the food system.
I agree with your comment -- I like and even admire a lot about the Chinese people and their culture. But their gov't has made us their sworn enemies (the US I should say, not Canada). They are amassing the worlds largest army to beat us -- and we're paying for it. I just don't think their gov't has us in their best interests when they send us food, toothpaste, toys, etc.
Simply because the demand is greater then what Canada can produce during the growing season. I love our country too but unfortunately our winters don't help with allowing it to produce enough produce for everyone's needs year round. So I encourage all the local farmers when permissible and get stuck with the imported stuff when winter hits. It's not perfect but livable, what I don't like is when the product says made in Canada when all they did was can or bottle the Chinese garlic here.
It's cheaper to import many products into Canada than to make or grow them. I used to work for a wholesaler and we'd get a product for $2, sell it wholesale for $20 and the retail stores would sell it for $40. Of course no business is going to thrive by buying something for $2 and selling it for $3, employees and other overhead needs to be paid. The cheaper you can get a product the more profit you can make over and above your overhead costs.
China is flooding our market with cheap garlic, to try and drive garlic growers out of business, maybe they want to buy the garlic growers to control costs.
we have here the same problem in spain, we could sell not much this year from our garlic, chinese flood everything very cheap, so i lost a lot of money . hey if you wanna good and healthy garlic from spain send me a pm.
@justinpan22 Garlic can and is grown in parts of Canada! They just import more than they grown. Supply and demand. N. America period should by locally or do with out. Unless it's a 55 inch LED TV. LOL
I could walk to the Ocean from my farm house in a day if I had to. There are clams galore, everywhere. You can't walk a step along the beach without going over a dozen of them. You need to pay a permit to harvest them and there's a limit you're allowed, only in season too.
My wife made up some chowder the other day - the clams came from our local co op, but they were imported from China!
How is this possible? We were both shocked when she showed me the package.
Part of the problem is some environmentalists. Many of them hate human life and are trying to make it as hard as possible to support human. In the US and Canada they have pushed for any law they can think of to increase the cost of food production claiming it is for the environment. That drives the cost to artificially high prices when produced in Canada and the US.
see: w w w . pop . org / content / its-not-easy-being-green-modern-1497
Sadly because there are no trade tariffs to make it prohibitively expensive for the chinese to export garlic to CA, they can produce it at slave labour prices using massive manpower and minimal machinery, picture giving 500 people a spade instead of using a tractor, that is china.
I saw a report on the rising pice of garlic IN china about a year ago and sure enough prices in my store have doubled since then.
well in america it works like this I found out. first you own the land, you pay taxes on it.pay several workers to plant the garlic. but before they can walk on your property to plant it. have to have insurance on each worker. worker has to have id number for tax purposes. have seeds fda approved. after planting have to have another crew pick the garlic. then again each person again has to have the previous requirments. in end we lose money and I hate imported also.
Protectionism for every nations on the planet! Cultural, industrial, agricultural and services. I buy most i can from québec and from my neighboors of Ontario. The garlic is one of the best examples..we can extrapolate further starting from that.
I wonder how many burdensome Canadian laws / regulations hurt the profitablity of your farmers and thus make Chinese garlic cheaper.... I know that we do that self-destructive stuff here in the US....
I'm 100% with you on this topic!! I also live in Ontario Canada and once I bought Garlic being enough stupid not to check where it came from. After eating it home ( I like to eat raw not cooked ) my stomach started to acting... slight pain and intense heartburn. After that when I'm in store I always double check where does that vegetable came from. Thank you for posting.
i agree, it is assinine to think of all the thing that come from all around the world that gets shipped in that we could grow in our own state to fund our own economy vs others.
you need more green houses more hot houses to grow food year round purchase other country's goods helps the trade with that country Every one should grown what foods that is healthy for them in their own back yards also a few chickens
@RCvolunteer1978 That is exactly it. Grow as much food as is feasible for you. However there is just some climates that are more conducive to growing certain things than other climates. Backyard food production is key. However most people can't/won't be bothered with the gardening in their own yards. Community supported agriculture may be the key.
@bwillan Yes; there are some good Community gardens that I have seen That has done will as long as there is a work force a cord of people that no matter what go out side when it is storming to cover the plants I have not been North of my Florida State line to see what the others are doing But I heard of some that closed down dew to no one is willing to work pulling weeds But everyone is there to harvest the straw-berries, and the tomatoes
Its not just garlic. I work at a highly selective private university and they feed the students frozen broccoli, tilapia, salmon, garlic, vegetable dumplings and apple juice - all from China. They claim it's all about price and budget constraints but it is really about maximum profit. I spend a lot of time talking with students who grew up in China and even they distrust the food system.
bsully77 9 months ago
I agree with your comment -- I like and even admire a lot about the Chinese people and their culture. But their gov't has made us their sworn enemies (the US I should say, not Canada). They are amassing the worlds largest army to beat us -- and we're paying for it. I just don't think their gov't has us in their best interests when they send us food, toothpaste, toys, etc.
762x51n8o 11 months ago
Simply because the demand is greater then what Canada can produce during the growing season. I love our country too but unfortunately our winters don't help with allowing it to produce enough produce for everyone's needs year round. So I encourage all the local farmers when permissible and get stuck with the imported stuff when winter hits. It's not perfect but livable, what I don't like is when the product says made in Canada when all they did was can or bottle the Chinese garlic here.
kwakman99 1 year ago
I live in Alabama and I often have the same sentiments.
kingjor3 1 year ago
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It's cheaper to import many products into Canada than to make or grow them. I used to work for a wholesaler and we'd get a product for $2, sell it wholesale for $20 and the retail stores would sell it for $40. Of course no business is going to thrive by buying something for $2 and selling it for $3, employees and other overhead needs to be paid. The cheaper you can get a product the more profit you can make over and above your overhead costs.
Yoshin9 1 year ago
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Yoshin9 1 year ago
Canada seems to be a great and beautiful country! I hope to visit it someday!
giutoniolo 1 year ago
i hate imported stuff ....
romeoneverdies 1 year ago
I live in Ontario too, Its a great place to live and I love the winters that we have.
GameTrailerGuru 1 year ago
@GameTrailerGuru ah man i hate the winters we have way to much snow to shovel :P
darkdude97 1 year ago
i live in canada love it but dont realy like travaling in it because all you see is trees lol :P
darkdude97 1 year ago
@darkdude97
I would not complain too much about the trees. Most of my region has been clear cut, never replanted, and looks like a nuclear holocaust.
Lakes are fished out as well .
cobalt120 1 year ago
China is flooding our market with cheap garlic, to try and drive garlic growers out of business, maybe they want to buy the garlic growers to control costs.
RESISTCONTROL2 1 year ago
@RESISTCONTROL2
we have here the same problem in spain, we could sell not much this year from our garlic, chinese flood everything very cheap, so i lost a lot of money . hey if you wanna good and healthy garlic from spain send me a pm.
PeSi2007 1 year ago
@justinpan22 Garlic can and is grown in parts of Canada! They just import more than they grown. Supply and demand. N. America period should by locally or do with out. Unless it's a 55 inch LED TV. LOL
wilcox1219 1 year ago
Hi.
The idea that our Canadian garlic is so renound that it's sold to every one else except us Canadians. Sold well over a year in advance.
I know that it originally cost me 30$ for 4 bulbs of original Canadian heirloom garlic.
For that price i made certain that i made it multiply and multiply and multiply.
Now i must harvest around 50lbs per year .
It's the only way to ensure that i can get some good garlic.
Check out Canadian Geographic, they had a recent article on Canadian garlic.
cobalt120 1 year ago
@cobalt120
red or purple garlic, size 50/55 = 16 bulbs/Kg = 4 US $
PeSi2007 1 year ago
I once mistakely bought some "honey" from China. I believe it was actually a mixture of molasses and corn syrup.
DangerousDan762 1 year ago
does it look like you can grow rice in canada?
chrisdeli7158 1 year ago
Where abouts in Ontario is that? I live in Paris, ON.
jntroisi 1 year ago
We grow and raise as much of our own food as possible...I challenge myself every day to become more self sufficient.
Mtclimber6 1 year ago
The colapse would destroy china's economy :D
ballshit123 1 year ago
@ballshit123 and their aware of that..........now you know why the russians are nervous!
wilatemodel 1 year ago
@ballshit123
acually i dont think so i think they would self consume their product
romeoneverdies 1 year ago
I could walk to the Ocean from my farm house in a day if I had to. There are clams galore, everywhere. You can't walk a step along the beach without going over a dozen of them. You need to pay a permit to harvest them and there's a limit you're allowed, only in season too.
My wife made up some chowder the other day - the clams came from our local co op, but they were imported from China!
How is this possible? We were both shocked when she showed me the package.
Never again.
Cannibalriot 1 year ago
Part of the problem is some environmentalists. Many of them hate human life and are trying to make it as hard as possible to support human. In the US and Canada they have pushed for any law they can think of to increase the cost of food production claiming it is for the environment. That drives the cost to artificially high prices when produced in Canada and the US.
see: w w w . pop . org / content / its-not-easy-being-green-modern-1497
XCritonX 1 year ago
Globalism was never intended to benifit us.
UndervoltRecords 1 year ago 2
Sadly because there are no trade tariffs to make it prohibitively expensive for the chinese to export garlic to CA, they can produce it at slave labour prices using massive manpower and minimal machinery, picture giving 500 people a spade instead of using a tractor, that is china.
I saw a report on the rising pice of garlic IN china about a year ago and sure enough prices in my store have doubled since then.
watch?v=XlMLhoigctI&feature=related
Nice
reefcut 1 year ago
Because garlic grows really bad in colder climates.
JustFresh099 1 year ago
does china import canadian bacon ...and were can i buy some ?
gasdorf 1 year ago
well in america it works like this I found out. first you own the land, you pay taxes on it.pay several workers to plant the garlic. but before they can walk on your property to plant it. have to have insurance on each worker. worker has to have id number for tax purposes. have seeds fda approved. after planting have to have another crew pick the garlic. then again each person again has to have the previous requirments. in end we lose money and I hate imported also.
flir67 1 year ago
Ricardian Foreign Trade Theory
DragOzze 1 year ago
How's "free trade" working for you?
aintgonnaworrynomore 1 year ago
Living in California, Farmland is visible everywhere and everything can grow here, yet we still import food, kinda makes you wonder
goletaguy92 1 year ago
Protectionism for every nations on the planet! Cultural, industrial, agricultural and services. I buy most i can from québec and from my neighboors of Ontario. The garlic is one of the best examples..we can extrapolate further starting from that.
watch?v=hHzkDUzZgUA
Lepiratepoulpe 1 year ago
I wonder how many burdensome Canadian laws / regulations hurt the profitablity of your farmers and thus make Chinese garlic cheaper.... I know that we do that self-destructive stuff here in the US....
Survive2Day 1 year ago
I'm 100% with you on this topic!! I also live in Ontario Canada and once I bought Garlic being enough stupid not to check where it came from. After eating it home ( I like to eat raw not cooked ) my stomach started to acting... slight pain and intense heartburn. After that when I'm in store I always double check where does that vegetable came from. Thank you for posting.
zoran (ron)
nedeljkomostar 1 year ago
i agree, it is assinine to think of all the thing that come from all around the world that gets shipped in that we could grow in our own state to fund our own economy vs others.
ICWWEVERYDAY 1 year ago
I hear ya, I'm from Ontario too and it's sad to see all things that could be grown localy being imported from other countries
BaByGoTtHeRuNz 1 year ago
you need more green houses more hot houses to grow food year round purchase other country's goods helps the trade with that country Every one should grown what foods that is healthy for them in their own back yards also a few chickens
RCvolunteer1978 1 year ago
@RCvolunteer1978 That is exactly it. Grow as much food as is feasible for you. However there is just some climates that are more conducive to growing certain things than other climates. Backyard food production is key. However most people can't/won't be bothered with the gardening in their own yards. Community supported agriculture may be the key.
bwillan 1 year ago
@bwillan Yes; there are some good Community gardens that I have seen That has done will as long as there is a work force a cord of people that no matter what go out side when it is storming to cover the plants I have not been North of my Florida State line to see what the others are doing But I heard of some that closed down dew to no one is willing to work pulling weeds But everyone is there to harvest the straw-berries, and the tomatoes
RCvolunteer1978 1 year ago