Do you know where your food comes from? - Eat Real. Eat Local.

The Canadian food system is in trouble. This short film explains what's happening to Canada's local food system and why we should all care. Watch to find out more, and join The Real Food Movement. http://www.eatrealeatlocal.ca

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Entertainment

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• real
• food
• local
• canadian
• imports
• exports
• realfood
• eat
• locavore
• canada

[poshdelux]

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

[m33lad]

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

[LaPerrucheVerte]

@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.

[DannerSauce]

@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]

@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.

[haso1957]

do we watch in Ontario

or we deny the reality

[beebnut]

Fresh City Farms is a great option for anyone in Toronto!

[ReticRhinoMan]

haha stupid canadians!!

[turretsCanada]

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.