Hellmanns Commercial (THINK ABOUT THIS CANADA!!!)

Hellmanns commercial lettting us Canadians know exactly where our food comes from!

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• Helmanns
• Hellmans
• Food
• Canada
• Farming

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[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.

[andreacanadian]

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