People are literally giving up staples like broccoli to avoid American products
I was at the grocery store the other day and there was a bin of American broccoli completely full and untouched. The Canadian broccoli bin? Empty. Canadians would literally rather give up broccoli than buy American.
I for one picked had broccoli on my grocery list but opted for cauliflower instead.
We are auditing literally every purchase. Netflix and Disney are banned. X and meta are blocked at the router. I'm actively looking for Canadian cloud providers for hosting. I've never seen such a thorough, deserved repudiation of America, long past overdue IMO.
Greetings from Austria! I've just discovered this lovely post in /all and just wanted to say I love it how you managed to get a critical mass to avoid US-american products, you really are restoring some of my faith in humanity. Keep up the good work, I'm boycotting with you :)
I just bought an electric snow shovel for this winter... no more uncomfortable steps to shovel... then Trump started his shit, noticed it was Murican brand and returned it unopened
Good on you!
I love how we are all setting aside our modern day individualism and desire for convenience, and joining together for a good cause! This country is worth defending. It isn't perfect but it sure as hell is a better place to live than America. Let's make it a country where mutual aid and empathy are central to our values.
Man, why can't the people of America be more like this. We fucking suck
Be the change. If you're American, take your money out of big tech, big corpo. Buy from local producers and family farms. Buy from coops. Buy from companies that didn't bow down to the anti-DEI diktats.
I signed up for a CSA from a local farm finally. I'll have fresh veggies grown a stone's throw away for all this summer and fall. Meanwhile, I'm not buying American produce.
Keeping my money away from Loblaws and other Canadian oligopolies as much as I can, too.
The grocery stores have even added little maple leafs next to the prices for Canadian goods, which makes it a lot easier.
I'm curious to see the numbers on this after a while.
Keep it going guys. We Americans need to be taught a lesson.
Thanks for your support! I'm just sorry really to the Americans who don't deserve this, the kids especially :(
Hi All!
Kansan here. I see a lot of comments about growing your own food. Let me know if I can help answer any questions about growing greens indoors or other plants outdoors. There's a lot of ways to efficiently grow greens indoors all season long.
I'd also love to reccomend seeds if needed.
Nova Scotian here. Also grow tons of stuff if anyone wants help. We produce most of our own and have lived in 5 different provinces over the past 40 years. We have loads of experience indoors and out. Happy to help anyone out who has questions or needs help.
It would be a nice bonus if surplus American produce became somewhat affordable to Americans due to foreign disinterest.
But it is not going to, you are only going to get F’d over some more. You import most of your fertilizer, Trumps tariffs will hurt you there. Trump plans on ramping up ICE raids so a lot of your foreign labour is going.
What are you doing about it?
Doing the same thing I've been doing for years. Been focusing on my "main" guns, getting better with 9mm, AR and 12-gauge. Working on shelter and supplies far from here. Actually working on all that this week, off till Friday!
If they come for my legal immigrant wife, they're getting blasted through the fucking door.
If Red Shirts come knocking, they're getting blasted through the fucking door.
What else is in my power? Marches and protests are a fucking joke. A general strike is the only power the masses have, and these masses voted for Trump. My fat-as-fuck fellow Americans dare not miss a meal to take a single day off.
That's likely the plan. Problem is, it'll only work in the short term. The US is a globally integrated nation. Nationalism is moronic because globally integrated means that we fundamentally don't have the capacity to do certain things or the raw resources.
Fertilizer, vehicles (except recently historically Tesla), batteries, microchips, some farming and ranching, and a lot of dirty industry are all things that the US either doesn't or can't do anymore.
Regardless, the tariffs (regressive taxes) will inflate the costs of all imported goods and impoverish the average US citizen while concentrating wealth in the richest. Then we'll get more of the cheerleading nationalism and blaming Canada and Greenland for things, then war to get things back to how they were by punishing the people who have nothing to do with it
Right on! Someone else in the family has been doing the grocery shopping, and my list is always titled, "Anything but American. If there's no equivalent, Canadian or otherwise, don't get it!". Today I'm making ALL CANADIAN stew again! Had it the other day, some of the best stew I've made!🍁💪
For food, buying locally often means buying with the seasons, which isn't a bad thing either. I've started trying to do this more and enjoy how much more flavour there is in the produce I buy. I have been used to always being able to buy anything I want in any season, but adapting to what is available is kinda fun.
Good! It seems the only thing American elites respond to is money, and too many Americans are addicted to consumption to stop giving these assholes money.
As an American, I support this.
As an American, I kinda want in on this... wondering what the best option would be locally, without needing to investigate entire supply chains.
Only thing that comes to mind are places like those family-owned Asian stores with products that at least appear to be sourced directly from whatever country to the store owner's culture belongs to.
Any tips?
Local is the key. Or at least, it's the best first step.
I live in a small Canadian city. Frankly there aren't always a lot of options for me to buy Canadian brands. I'm limited by what is available to me. My response has been to go even deeper than just "buy Canadian" to "buy Local".
Go to your local independent grocer. Go to your local independent clothing store, coffee shop, mechanic, etc.... Find your local farmers market where local gardeners and producers sell their vegetables, sausages and meats. Somewhere in your city, there's a retired person who spends their spare time making bespoke wood work furniture. Support them instead of buying your next table from Ikea.
Are the items I buy all going to be 100% Canadian. No. It's unrealistic for most people (including myself). But my response even before all of it went to hell has been to say that wherever possible, ensure that your money is staying in YOUR community instead of being shipped off to a corporate headquarters.
That's my thought anyway. The more local the better. Your community becomes culturally and financially more robust when we stop letting corporations take our money out of them, regardless of nationality.
I've been working on degoogling. I don't trust US tech anymore. Well, I haven't for a while, but with recent events I'm now motivated to fix it.
Canadians are also used to not eating many things in winter so boycotting products isn’t that difficult
Good, Staples is a terrible company. I stopped shopping there years ago.
The broccoli they sell is shit too
Staples Broccoli, notoriously dry and tinny
Honestly the worst broccoli I've ever had
It's possible that might have been printer toner.
Yeah I have had to cut out Broccoli purchases because in BC they are only in season beginning from June. It has been snowing so they are only available at my stores from California.
Yeah, I had to drop my usual bagged salad. I already have seeds so I'll probably get around to trying microgreens like I've been meaning to.
Been growing spicy microgreens in my chameleon's terrarium. OK so far. Hard to pump enough light in there and the energy vs. output will never be worth it. Growing outside is a whole different thing!
Maybe this will get me into trying to do that again.