Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Guys, boycott produce at the grocery store please.
I'm seeing far too many American apples, lettuce, cherries, grapes, strawberries, etc.
Wine is one thing, but we have to avoid as many of their crops as possible.
Grocery stores need to take heavy losses before they change over their suppliers, it seems.
Our local grocery stores have changed as much produce as I suspect they can. Lots of Mexican and South American, Canadian where possible. But there's still some USA and I suspect they just cannot get it elsewhere at the moment.
Lettuce only lasts so long on a cargo ship and why would Mexico waste land growing lettuce when they can grow so many more tropical and exotic things they can sell at a premium
I saw a recent CBC News piece about a local grocery and their challenges rising to the growing demand of Canadian goods as alternatives for US goods.
Grocery stores are very aware of the problem, and they are trying. Unfortunately, some products sit on shelves for weeks before they're cleared out in normal conditions, so it might be a while before the stock rotates out so they can rotate in non-US alternatives.
Produce is one of those areas where it's more about who makes it, rather than who you're buying from. We can grow just about anything we want with enough time, effort, and money. Hydroponics has come a long way. But again, time, and money. We have land... We have land in spades. A lot of it is colder climates than most of these plants are capable of enduring, so if we want some things to be Canadian grown, we would need greenhouses of the stuff to grow it. Not cheap. So what if we throw out the "grown in Canada" and just went with non-US?
There's two challenges there: can we get it in a reasonable time frame so that it can sit on shelves and/or in people's houses long enough to actually be consumed before it spoils? Is there a country with the necessary climate and shipping capability that's close enough to make all of that make sense? That's not the USA?
This is the question we'll struggle with, and I'm certain we are struggling with. I'm certain that some varieties of apples, pears, oranges, and other common fruits and vegetables spoil fast enough that normally, our only real option for them is from North America and one of the biggest farmland areas in North America is the United States. They have prairies that rarely freeze and are vast and plentiful.
Look, I'm not saying we should give up. Far from it. I'm just pointing out that getting to the point where we have completely eliminated US goods from grocery stores, isn't going to be an overnight thing. It will take months if not years to fully migrate to alternatives.
Luckily, our current federal government seems to be helping in this regard. I've seen plenty of news coverage about their efforts to bring goods from Europe, and from across the Pacific, into Canada, as well as have our exports sent those directions too, so we are not economically dependent on the US buying our stuff.
I have to give them credit for trying at least.
Keep doing what you're doing. Look for Canadian goods, buy them whenever possible. Look for US goods, avoid them whenever possible. The market is changing. All I can say, from the economist in me, is that, I have high hopes and expectations that we will end up as a stronger, more independent country when all is said and done. The damage the commander and cheeto of the US has done with all of this will create a permanent rift between the long, prosperous and open border we've enjoyed with the USA for over 100 years. I'm worried that the US economy will suffer for a long time after this, but that's not really what any of us are actually concerned about. I feel bad for the American people, especially those who voted against this. Hopefully this serves as a strong example to everyone that they need to think a bit more about what and who they are voting for.
i agree with you, but not at the cost of your health. don't get scurvy over a boycott
i mean, yeah. the point i'm trying to make (and probably failing because my brain doesn't wake up for another hour forty five) is that your personal health should generally be a higher priority than the national economy.
You know that citrus fruit isn't the only way to get vitamin C, right?
As much as I support boycotting American, not buying American lettuce and apples won't force the grocery stores to "switch suppliers"
Canada can't grow that shit. All the grocery stores will switch to is corn and more bread in the bakery because we have very little land with the climate that will produce fruits and vegetables.
Idk I've had a pretty easy time grabbing non US veggies
Well, it’s the middle of summer right now.
You've had an easy time while others have been buying US veggies. If there were no US veggies available at all you would have a much more difficult time.
If we don’t buy US they will bring in stuff from other countries. It’s already happening. We had never seen lemons from any country but USA. Now we get South African, Argentinian and what not. Oranges? Morocco, Egypt. Cantaloupes were always USA. Now we get some from Guatemala and Honduras and right now Canada as they are in season. Apples now? Not available yet in Canada. We get them from NZ.
It’s all possible. There is nothing the USA grows that isn’t grown around the world.
You've never been to Canada have you? Its farms every where
I literally live in the warmest farming country in Canada. I still 2-3 months of the year the land is fallow and can't grow anything because it's too cold, and a few other months some of it is only used to grow hay for livestock, unlike the states which can grow produce year round.
We have mass green house structures in BC for cold growing, and growing hay for livestock isn't a " nowhere to grow food" issue its a planning issue.
Canada can't grow that shit.
We export a lot of food to the States. Keep it here.
We also have an multiple trade partners to import from, if we don't grow it already.
Canada has apples all year, why do stores still fill the shelves with American apples?
We need to stop pretending that it's OK to keep giving Americans money. It's better the shelves be half empty than full of American products.
Of course we can and do grow it! We have tons of orchards and farms.
We have so much Canadian lettuce it’s not even hard to avoid US grown. Apples? I only buy Canadian for years because they have flavour.
Do we have some catching up to do? Sure. But it’s driven by demand. We stop buying US and it’ll drive demand for Canadian and others (friendlies) for sure.
We can't grow enough to supply 40million people is what I mean.
We can. We actually throw 40-50% of produce in the landfill because it sat too long. That would be lessened if we only had Canadian choices
Have you got any studies or statistics to back that up?
That should be a challenge. It also would drive more investment and production.
But... we can. We have been for decades.
Canada can't grow lettuce and apples? Since when? We've been buying BC and Ontario fruit for decades. There are backyard apple varieties developed in Saskatchewan and Manitoba that are hardy to zone 3 and 2. Lettuce can be and is grown in hothouses in winter around the Redcliff area in Alberta. (Not to mention, it's not hard to grow in your living room under grow lights.)
Now, off to pick some raspberries and tomatoes in my Saskatchewan back yard.
ELBOWS UP
That is amazing - if buying U.S. wines were illegal, it would still be hard for it to drop that fast.
That might actually increase the sales...
Yeah, there's already people willing to pay 100+ for Napa cabs. Make that shit illegal the price will triple over night.
Hey, only 3 more percent to go
Sadly Scott Moe likes to drink and Danielle Smith loves Trump.
Those two probably drink the 3% themselves.
My point exactly!
Not many people outside Saskatchewan know this, but Scott Moe killed a person while allegedly driving drunk, he had two previous DUIs, one in 1992 for DUI and one in 1994 for DUI and fleeing the scene and then right on schedule he gets in a fatal car accident in 1997 but investigation clears him... right....
He only disclosed it because his opponents found out and were going to disclose it but it wasn't until after he was elected, but nobody wants to hold him accountable. SK elect nothing but the finest apparently.
Michael Jackson, his popcorn crunching.
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Surely the abundance of stock will lower the price, right?
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Wine? I’d like to see American made goods in general.
They can’t give Campbells soup away.
I wish the entire world would boycott the US. Buy nothing, sell nothing. Ban travel to and from the US. The world should just turn it's back on the US. It has become a danger to the rest of the world
The citizens who voted orange agent krasnov they should also bear the responsibility for their actions and also those who didin't bother to vote at all.
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Okanagan wine is better anyway.