Posted on 10/02/2021 8:10:09 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Nearly half of all Canadians say high food prices are keeping meat off their tables, according to a study at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Of the 10,000 Canadians the school surveyed in September, nearly 50 per cent said they’d bought fewer meat products in the previous six months because they cost too much, says the study released Wednesday.
Canadians were asked for their opinion of food prices, including if they’ve noticed any changes, and what they’re doing to cope with any increases.
The study didn’t give examples of higher meat prices, but Statistics Canada collects such data.
For example, from January to August of this year, the price of a one-kilogram sirloin steak rose by 11.6 per cent, from $22.68 to $25.33, while 500 grams of bacon increased by 12.5 per cent, from $7.32 to $8.24. The price of a one-kilogram chicken rose by 10.6 per cent, from $7.35 to $8.13.
While meat prices in Canada have been high before, it’s unusual for inflation to affect the trifecta of beef, chicken, and pork to such a degree, Sylvain Charlebois, director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, told iPolitics on Thursday.
“Chicken would typically increase by two or three per cent a year … but this year, it’s over 10 per cent,” he said.
Of all Canadians, Albertans are most likely to be cutting back.
“When you see a province like Alberta reducing its meat consumption as a result of meat prices, you’ve got yourself a problem,” said Charlebois.
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The cost of meat in Canada is making meat unaffordable to Canadians.
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"This is not an infrastructure bill.. this “an end to life as you know it” Bill.
Just one example: cattle farmers have to pay $2600 PER COW a year Dairy cows $6500 a year
This will put millions of cattle farmers out of business"
Not a Giffen Good.
I am a meat broker/trader and have been in the business 40 years.
This article is complete BS as I do a fair amount of business in Canada. Beef is high as it is been here for years. Pork and Chicken however are historically still quite reasonable though and are only marginally more expensive.
Can’t they get free government maple syrup?
And canucks reelected their slave masters.
What’s the problem? I thought Canadians were leading the world into veganism.
Let them eat maple cake.
China,
“Why risk war when we can get their leaders to do what we want?”
Keep voting in socialists/marxists- aint life just grand up there now?
Yep tax the cow farts.
Someone did a study a while back about how Low protein diets were used to force compliance on populations.
I wonder how many of the 50% voted for the current government.
Elections have consequences.
We should have learned that from 2009-2017, but we didn’t. Or should I say, we did but a handful of crybabies and children in 4-6 states had their feelings hurt by President Trump and decided to get back at him.
And now we’re not much better off than Canada, for now, and it will only continue to get worse for us.
I’m still finding pretty good sale prices on meat. I just got some ground chuck for $2.99/lb, but I had to buy 3.5 lb. Chicken is very expensive.
A kilo is what? 2.2 lbs? So $10,per pound? That is a put what it is here. The chicken is higher than in the states, we still get it for about $3 per pound or so, sometimes much less when o. Sale
Under normal circumstances food is through the roof in Alaska. Watched YouTube videos and a pack of potatoes chips cost $10. Fresh veggies $8.00 for head of cabbage.
To our Canadian cousins to the north, welcome to:
Gleichschaltung!:
The term is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.”
The Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and quickly began trying to control all aspects of society. This internal consolidation of power to remake Germany as a Nazi state was known as Gleichschaltung. The term is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.” Under Gleichschaltung, German political, social, and cultural life were rearranged to serve Nazi goals.
Gleichschaltung is the German term applied to the Nazification of German society following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Once Hitler became chancellor, he and the Nazi Party sought to “coordinate” all political, social, and cultural institutions with the Nazi state. This “coordination” was done in the name of national unity. However, it allowed the Nazi Party to extend its power by creating a single party state. Everything was subject to coordination: local government, professional organizations, social clubs, leisure activities—even those for children.
The state enforced coordination from the top-down. At the same time, many Germans responded with a bottom-up coordination of their own. This was known as Selbstgleichschaltung. Even Hitler was surprised with the speed and ease of remaking Germany. He noted “everything is going much faster than we ever dared to hope.”1
Creating a Single Party State:
One of the primary goals of coordination was the creation of a single party state entirely under Nazi control. In January 1933, Hitler became chancellor. At the time, Germany was still a multi-party state. The country was led by a popularly elected representative government. The following month, the Reichstag (German parliament building) burned down by arson. The Nazis seized the chance to act. They blamed the Communist Party. On February 28, 1933, they issued the Reichstag Fire Decree. The measure suspended the protections for civil rights, free speech, and due process in the German Constitution.2
On April 7, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums), which excluded Jews and political opponents from all civil service positions.
View Archival DetailsOn March 24, 1933, Hitler succeeded in passing the Enabling Act. The act gave the Reich Chancellor (Hitler) the ability to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag. He was able to do so even if those laws conflicted with the German Constitution. This effort effectively ended parliamentary democracy in Germany.3
Hitler had succeeded in securing control of the national government. He passed two additional laws to reconstitute state-level governments under Nazi control. These laws dissolved existing state governments. The law also appointed a Reichsstatthalter (Reich governor) for each state. The Reichsstatthalter reported directly to Wilhelm Frick, the Reich Minister of the Interior. Each was responsible for implementing Nazi policy within their state.
The next target in this process was the civil service. Hitler issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on April 7, 1933. The measure dismissed all Jews and political opponents of Nazis from the civil service. It covered every employee at every level of government administration. Further, it applied to numerous other positions not considered part of the civil service in many countries. For example, it covered judges, teachers, university professors, and lawyers. Many people, especially Jews and Communists, lost their jobs and retirement benefits. Many other people rushed to join the Nazi Party in order to protect their jobs in a time of high unemployment. All those who joined were not necessarily doing so from political conviction.
Hitler had gained control of the national and local governments. He had also secured a government workforce purged of all potential opposition. The Nazi Party could now declare Germany a single party state. On July 14, 1933, the party issued The Law Against the Founding of New Parties. It declared, “The National Socialist German Workers Party is the only political party in Germany.”4 Membership in other political parties, such as the Social Democratic Party or the Communist Party, became illegal. Members of these parties were targeted by the Nazis. Some fled the country or went underground. Within six months, Hitler and the Nazi Party had managed to gain complete control over the German state. They had eliminated all formal political opposition.
Coordinating Economic, Social, and Cultural Life:
Absolute political power was not enough. The Nazi Party sought complete control over economic, social, and cultural life in Germany as well. All labor unions were abolished in May 1933, replaced by the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF, or German Labor Front). The DAF created a single overarching labor union. Essentially all German workers and employees in every economic sector belonged to the DAF. For example, farmers were coordinated into the Reich Food Estate. While traditional unions prioritized workers’ rights, the DAF emphasized national economic goals above personal well-being.
In September 1933, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels created the Reich Culture Chamber. It coordinated literature, music, theater, radio, film, fine arts, and the press. Only artists and writers belonging to its affiliated bodies could continue in their professions. Groups that were previously organized under political parties or labor unions—such as sports teams, music groups, and craft associations—were disbanded. The ones that remained were organized under the Nazi Party. Scouting organizations for children were also Nazified. A 1934 law made the Hitler Youth the only legal youth group in Germany.5 In 1939, participation became mandatory. All German children became exposed to Nazi ideology from an early age.
Even leisure time was coordinated according to Nazi principles in the Strength through Joy (Kraft durch Freude) program. The program was a division of the German Labor Front. Strength through Joy offered subsidized tourism packages, music lessons, art classes, fitness opportunities, and sponsored theater and concert tickets.
Conclusion:
Gleichschaltung was a process of coordination. It was designed to bring all aspects of German life under Nazi control. From the single party state to the German Labor Front to the Nazi-approved leisure activities offered by Strength through Joy, almost no part of German life remained untouched by Nazism.
Last Edited: Jan 23, 2020
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gleichschaltung-coordinating-the-nazi-state
I have no way of knowing if you’re right or wrong.
At the same time, are your saying that 5000+/- people in that survey are lying? It isn’t just the cost of meat, chicken and pork going up. It’s the costs of everything else. So, when all the bills are tallied up at the end of the month these people have less money to spend on items you admit are more expensive. Even if just marginally. WTF?
Conservatives love to talk about how much more compassionate and understanding they are than liberals, especially on this site. But when someone starts kicking sand around in their sandbox, the claws come out quick.
I recall watching a North Korea documentary where they said they get less than 2,000 calories per day ration, and most of that is rice.
Sadly though, those sales will be harder and harder to find, as the meat industry gets destroyed by socialists. I think we are gonna start seeing more and more city folks moving to the country to begin raising their own meat and food. Which of course will ruin the country for the more conservative and independent folks that are currently there making things work for them already.
But we can hope the migration from city to country will be by people who are more conservative. The hard core ,iberals will just stay in the cities and eat the pain That their marxist overlords inflict on Them, thinking that they are “doing their part to save muvver erff “
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