I've seen Kiwi Pure grassfed butter from NZ. 13 bucks for 250 grams. And there's Thornloe made in Canada but I can't taste the difference between that and cartel butter.
After traveling to Europe I am really puzzled by Canada, we are a nation built from European immigrants but our bread and cheese is shite compared to anything you get from say The Netherlands or Germany. What the fuck went wrong?
At least Alberta has great Ukrainian and Greek food.
The EU might not have a dairy cartel, but they buy the milk and butter which are overproduced with taxpayer money to keep the price stable. And they spend billions every year for it.
And they have way more regulations for dairy farmers to keep up the quality.
And he's only able to do it because the EU pays him $$. Would you like the Canadian government to throw billions of $$ every year at dairy farmers? Because that's the alternative to supply management. The US does it and the EU does it.
Exactly. At least let the tax dollars go to things that I can directly benefit from, instead of programs to support political identity victimhood groups.
I'd love to see small local producers again... like we used to have.
I work in agriculture. There are small local producers in Canada, though it may be hard to find them if you live in a bigger city. We have the same amount of farmers per capita as the US (though our farms tend to be bigger). We also employ more people in the agricultural sector (2% vs 1.6%).
There is a trend that farmers vanish and the land is bought up buy big companies, but this isn't just a Canadian trend. Happens in the US, EU, SA, Asia and so on. It's a global trend.
I want less regulation and less government interference.
I mean you praise the EU which has way more regulations and government interference compared to Canada ... doesn't seem that you want "less regulations and less government". Canada has less regulations. That's why you are able to buy shitty food in big box stores. This wouldn't fly in the EU because they have certain laws and regulations against that.
My position is to vote with your wallet. I grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan. My parents are farmers. I know where to get the good stuff and it's certainly not at Superstore, Walmart or even Costco.
I don't know where you live, but there is certainly a website for your area with locally made goods. I can drive to Saskatoon and buy beef at Walmart which was frozen and transported from some mega farm in Alberta or I can drive just a little bit farther and get locally produced meat at the Pine View Farms or the Farmyard Market. You pay a little bit more, but for me it's worth it.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I was wanting to buy a block of cheese or butter shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I wanting to buy a block of cheese shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
Do you have Kerrygold butter up there? It’s a beautiful golden color, made from grass-fed cows and tastes delicious
I've seen Kiwi Pure grassfed butter from NZ. 13 bucks for 250 grams. And there's Thornloe made in Canada but I can't taste the difference between that and cartel butter.
You need to buy the butter than cost $8 for it to not suck here.
After traveling to Europe I am really puzzled by Canada, we are a nation built from European immigrants but our bread and cheese is shite compared to anything you get from say The Netherlands or Germany. What the fuck went wrong?
At least Alberta has great Ukrainian and Greek food.
The EU might not have a dairy cartel, but they buy the milk and butter which are overproduced with taxpayer money to keep the price stable. And they spend billions every year for it.
And they have way more regulations for dairy farmers to keep up the quality.
And he's only able to do it because the EU pays him $$. Would you like the Canadian government to throw billions of $$ every year at dairy farmers? Because that's the alternative to supply management. The US does it and the EU does it.
Exactly. At least let the tax dollars go to things that I can directly benefit from, instead of programs to support political identity victimhood groups.
I work in agriculture. There are small local producers in Canada, though it may be hard to find them if you live in a bigger city. We have the same amount of farmers per capita as the US (though our farms tend to be bigger). We also employ more people in the agricultural sector (2% vs 1.6%).
There is a trend that farmers vanish and the land is bought up buy big companies, but this isn't just a Canadian trend. Happens in the US, EU, SA, Asia and so on. It's a global trend.
I mean you praise the EU which has way more regulations and government interference compared to Canada ... doesn't seem that you want "less regulations and less government". Canada has less regulations. That's why you are able to buy shitty food in big box stores. This wouldn't fly in the EU because they have certain laws and regulations against that.
I have a master in mechanical engineering. I develop and build the next generation of agricultural machines, speak autonomous agricultural machines.
My position is to vote with your wallet. I grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan. My parents are farmers. I know where to get the good stuff and it's certainly not at Superstore, Walmart or even Costco.
I don't know where you live, but there is certainly a website for your area with locally made goods. I can drive to Saskatoon and buy beef at Walmart which was frozen and transported from some mega farm in Alberta or I can drive just a little bit farther and get locally produced meat at the Pine View Farms or the Farmyard Market. You pay a little bit more, but for me it's worth it.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I was wanting to buy a block of cheese or butter shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
As a person from euro it is disappointing how a G7 country can get such a simple to make product so spectacularly wrong and expensive. I’ve largely given up buying cheese in Canada. It’s just not affordable. $16 for barely a kilo of macro label plastic crap from Kraft? ‘Sale’ price cheese that’s the same ‘just about barely reasonable price’ as it was 4 years ago?
$4.99 for a lb of flavourless butter? Excuse me? I wanting to buy a block of cheese shopkeep, not phuqqing platinum.
Euro butter is incredible, French President butter is sublime. Good luck finding it here though, butter has an import ‘fine’ of 298% (lets not be precious, a tariff at 300% is just a cute way of keeping out imports) .
IIRC cheese is similar, there’s also stiff penalties on eggs, chicken.
You can play an eye opening game next time you’re at Safeway or loblaws. Take a look at the import cheese museum area, and look at the shelf labels priced per 100g. The record I’ve seen is $85 a Kg, some French import blue cheese. The pack dimensions you coulda measured in Plahnk lengths.
It’s either that or one is shelling out a mortgage payment for a morsel with a higher mass than a teaspoon of neutrinos.
Dairy farmers in the US also use palm oil as food supplement. Wouldn't have changed a thing.
I think it's because their normal milk is homo, 3.5%, but 2% is the standard here, or god forbid the skim shit that is lower than that.