Insane Food Prices In Northern Canada
In the remote northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, food comes with a shocking price tag due to transportation costs. The mostly Inuit population there has started a Facebook group with images of food prices to bring attention to the issue.
12. $11.49 Topicana orange juice; $7.15 generic store brand juice
Source: facebook.com / via: grist.org
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helenkabatoffh 11 months agoWhy would anybody buy water and expensive juices when they can melt snow and ice and make their own water.
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benh25 11 months agoAfter reading many people exclaiming high food prices, or difficulty shipping to remote areas. The issue is neither. These people have not been complaining over this for a long period of time, this is a new thing. The reality is, “Climate Change” is a mechanism the governments of the world are using, to sidestep blow-back from the public over the ever-increasing appearance of a “carbon Tax” which is taxing you for the carbon monoxide in the atmosphere (which has been here since before we have, and isn’t getting higher or lower in volume…). Science has already proven via many studies, that the Climate Change has been miniscule at best, and would take many more decades before we saw significant change in the weather. That being said, If any of you do your research, those people are living on land atop hundreds of millions of gallons of fossil fuel. Not kidding. Hundreds of millions. (~150million) Why do you think they are making it harder for them to live there? hm idk lemme think about it for a moment.
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thelaststraw 11 months agoThis is the territory that, after years of negotiation, was designated for Canada’s Native population. It’s basically a giant, frozen ghetto of extreme poverty. To those who’ve made fb comments above saying stuff like, “Well, of course it’s expensive, you chose to live far away” — saying this is a choice for the Inuit population is like blaming US Natives for getting stuck on reservations.
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Uncle Pennybags 11 months ago
Just for perspective, minimum wage in Nunavut is $11/ hr. After taxes, it would take roughly 2.5 hours of work for someone on this income to afford 2L of that gawd-awful concentrated fruit juice.
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Abe 11 months agoSo Canada should subsidize transporting food to the tundra? This is precisely why global warming exists. Should people in Nunavut really expect to have reasonably priced strawberries and orange juice, crops that can’t grow within a thousand miles? And if you whine about some cultural sensitivity or some shit, I’d remind you that locavorism is the ultimate cultural sensitivity.
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coconutbrah 11 months ago
Hawaii matches some of those prices. But we call it the paradise tax, and those poor folks do not look like they’re enjoying the paradise part of it.
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