Oh no! Anyways.
Their quality of food is trash anyways so good for our health.
I read a paper recently while doing some research in my field. In Québec, a majority of food issues such as bacteria and unwanted contamination comes from the US while it’s a minority of the food that we import.
I’m on my phone and I’m pretty tired to find the source, but I read that about 6 months ago
It feels like we get so many recalls of US produce in Ontario due to salmonella. Typically, it’s the salad greens like lettuce and whatnot, but it seems very frequent.
I was under the impression that the FDA used to be the gold standard for drug approval until Trump.
But yeah, our food standards have always been shit
No I took a few nutrition courses in my undergrad and they always bring up the FDA as the gold standard of how NOT to run things, its frequently laughed at and sometimes downright shocking. I don’t have specifics because I took those courses almost a decade ago now but if you’re curious you can always conpare CFIA (Canadian food inspection agency) with FDA and you’ll quickly see some clear differences.
As an American, please keep that shit up. I’m rooting for you. We fucking deserve it.
Please consider making Ohio the 11th province by any means necessary. 🙏
“Our most challenging category to mitigate the threat of retaliatory tariffs is produce where in Canada, in the winter, we do not always have viable alternatives,”
I know it won’t happen overnight but let’s get some Mexican produce lined up for next winter. They are being hit by tariffs too.
And it’s also time for more hothouse produce. Stop exporting our energy to the enemy and use it here to feed ourselves.
There is this company who started growing bananas on the north shore of Montréal. Their initial testing went very well and they are planning on increasing their production right now. Very interesting stuff.
That’s super cool. I’d absolutely spend extra for Montreal bananas.
My home province of BC has been doing pretty good at growing stuff in hothouses, I’ve even routinely buying local lettuce and peppers and mushrooms from big stores like Costco even before the boycott started.
So we can do this. It will take some time to ramp up and getting imports from allies will help with us this transition period and beyond.
There’s also these guys Canadian Grown Bananas who are out of Ontario.
There’s lots of microgreen producers throughout Alberta if that’s your thing and take a look for CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) in your area.
I know it’s definitely not feasible for everyone but even switching out ONE product at a time is what we need.
Do what you can with what you have.
Earlier this week I walked to three different grocery stores to find some diet cola because the only things the first two had in stock were Coke and Pepsi. Never thought there’d be a shortage of store-brand diet cola.
Back in the day, Cott was the #1 pop brand in Canada because they were the private label manufacturer for President’s Choice cola. I remember because they also sold their own branded pop in Fields. Cott’s Beverage got sold off somewhere, and more private label pop bottlers have taken the crown, but there is no reason why some of these pl bottlers couldn’t start a house brand.
We are entering an era when the new Cott’s Cola might outsell Coca Cola because it’s the Canadian alternative.
I’ve heard about a neat thing some shoppers are doing; if you check a product and see it’s from the US, turn it upside down, with the label showing point of origin facing out. Do the same for two or three more of that product on the shelf. Helps others see what to avoid.
