"The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada.
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"The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports."
Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for our food is a recipe for disaster
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-reliance-on-the-us-for-our-food-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/ -
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"The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports."
Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for our food is a recipe for disaster
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-reliance-on-the-us-for-our-food-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/@dyckron part of this dependence is due to US firms buying up small canneries and closing them down. We use to have a lot of truck farms in Vernon and we produced a lot more vegetables and even more fruit than what we produce today. Some of the reduction in food production is due to the increased acreage for wine.
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"The United States potentially controls as much as 82.9 per cent of all fruits and vegetables that enter into Canada. Not only do we import much of our fruits and vegetables from the U.S. – a whopping 98 per cent of our imported lettuce is grown there – but even produce from other countries largely travels here via American highways and shipping ports."
Canada’s reliance on the U.S. for our food is a recipe for disaster
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-reliance-on-the-us-for-our-food-is-a-recipe-for-disaster/ -
@dyckron part of this dependence is due to US firms buying up small canneries and closing them down. We use to have a lot of truck farms in Vernon and we produced a lot more vegetables and even more fruit than what we produce today. Some of the reduction in food production is due to the increased acreage for wine.
Yet another downside of free trade in capital.
Trying to not buy US vegs lately I've noticed that even the frozen ones are either from the US or CHINA! Can we not freeze our own? Or would corporate interests just ensure anyone starting up such a business would be crushed and bought up?
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"This means protecting our agricultural land from development. Municipalities of all sizes must limit turning agricultural lands into new housing developments."
This means protecting our agricultural land from Doug Ford and his developer buddies.
