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14 Apr 2011, 12:34 pm
Food feud topic
Grocery prices have certainly risen. Gas prices here in Canada are at an all time high, even as our dollar is worth $1.04 US. In fact, consumer goods here in Canada are 20% higher than in the US, according to a local news segment I listened to this morning.
Some of these "shortages" have to do with switching to crops like corn that are a rather narrow food choice. Also consider unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, drug abuse and other factors that have an impact on the economy, on top of the global financial crisis and climate change.
Many politicians jump on bandwagons to deflect other more complex causes of the sort that I have mentioned, thinking that the populace is too stupid to notice, then re-elect the idiot making such a simplistic claim in the hopes that he/she will do something about the "food shortages." Blaming the food producers for hoarding/destroying their crops is a dumb political tactic, and this is not unheard of in Canada.
Wiser agricultural practices, stemming from a better educated food production sector, can be a first step, and perhaps this is a way that will help boost the economy. 
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Grocery prices have certainly risen. Gas prices here in Canada are at an all time high, even as our dollar is worth $1.04 US. In fact, consumer goods here in Canada are 20% higher than in the US, according to a local news segment I listened to this morning.
Some of these "shortages" have to do with switching to crops like corn that are a rather narrow food choice. Also consider unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, drug abuse and other factors that have an impact on the economy, on top of the global financial crisis and climate change.
Many politicians jump on bandwagons to deflect other more complex causes of the sort that I have mentioned, thinking that the populace is too stupid to notice, then re-elect the idiot making such a simplistic claim in the hopes that he/she will do something about the "food shortages." Blaming the food producers for hoarding/destroying their crops is a dumb political tactic, and this is not unheard of in Canada.
Wiser agricultural practices, stemming from a better educated food production sector, can be a first step, and perhaps this is a way that will help boost the economy.
Let's not also* forget that depending where you live, farming isn't quite socially valorized. =/
edited : replaced always*
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15 Apr 2011, 12:32 pm
Grocery prices have certainly risen. Gas prices here in Canada are at an all time high, even as our dollar is worth $1.04 US. In fact, consumer goods here in Canada are 20% higher than in the US, according to a local news segment I listened to this morning.
Some of these "shortages" have to do with switching to crops like corn that are a rather narrow food choice. Also consider unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, drug abuse and other factors that have an impact on the economy, on top of the global financial crisis and climate change.
Many politicians jump on bandwagons to deflect other more complex causes of the sort that I have mentioned, thinking that the populace is too stupid to notice, then re-elect the idiot making such a simplistic claim in the hopes that he/she will do something about the "food shortages." Blaming the food producers for hoarding/destroying their crops is a dumb political tactic, and this is not unheard of in Canada.
Wiser agricultural practices, stemming from a better educated food production sector, can be a first step, and perhaps this is a way that will help boost the economy.
Let's not also* forget that depending where you live, farming isn't quite socially valorized. =/
edited : replaced always*
Down on the farm topic
This is unfortunate, as there will be less and less mom and pop family farms, as small scale agribusiness gives way to the single crop behemoth sprawls (mostly corn) that I have seen increase, in my lifetime. Like any business, there must be a profit, and when the land is worth more than crops and livestock, selling it makes more sense, (as real estate developers are hungry for housing developments) so the kids can go on to higher education, having nothing to do with agriculture.
Yet there are those who invest in agribusiness, and see the need for a better educated and technologically savvy farmer, who does not rely on just one crop (An example being in the Holland Marsh, a rich Sourthern Ontario food production area
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