$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern Canada

[RolandClose]

supply and demand.

[RolandClose]

News article is dated 2012. label on the cabbage is dated 2006. Guess things have not gotten better in 6 years.

[Imp]

The cost of transportation. That is all it is, really, for most of it. Shipping is not cheap.

[rockpilefarmer]

Seems to me we created this mess for the Inuets. We took away their tribal rights to forage for food because of the animal rights activists. Just like we took away the rights of the Northwest Coast Canadian Indians right to hunt whale and other sea faring animals-in the name of animal rights. Baloney. White Americans waste more salmon than it takes for a family of 4 Inuets to stay alive!

[AmericanWoman]

Originally Posted by rockpilefarmer

Seems to me we created this mess for the Inuets. We took away their tribal rights to forage for food because of the animal rights activists. Just like we took away the rights of the Northwest Coast Canadian Indians right to hunt whale and other sea faring animals-in the name of animal rights. Baloney. White Americans waste more salmon than it takes for a family of 4 Inuets to stay alive!

This. Lets not even talk about the indigenous people in south america and what governments are doing to them, RIGHT now...

[rockpilefarmer]

NO KIDDING! Why does the white man think his ways are superior? I don't get it. After spending the morning at work, I am about to start a women's revolution. I think I must work with the most neurotic man in Arkansas!

[reubenT]

Human nature; The way I do it is the best/only way. Every other way is bad/inferior.

The food problem was solved long ago, but the cover was slammed shut on the solution due to greed.

[Gardener5]

Originally Posted by Imp

The cost of transportation. That is all it is, really, for most of it. Shipping is not cheap.

I agree and this is why food prices in Alaska are also very high.

[c1377]

Originally Posted by RolandClose

News article is dated 2012. label on the cabbage is dated 2006. Guess things have not gotten better in 6 years.

No, the date reads 12/06/06.
Year / Month / Day is the international standard date format.

You have to admit, it makes a lot more sense...
But here in the US we are stuck with gallons, inches, and mm/dd/yy...

[islandgirl Romy]

Originally Posted by rockpilefarmer

Seems to me we created this mess for the Inuets. We took away their tribal rights to forage for food because of the animal rights activists. Just like we took away the rights of the Northwest Coast Canadian Indians right to hunt whale and other sea faring animals-in the name of animal rights. Baloney. White Americans waste more salmon than it takes for a family of 4 Inuets to stay alive!

The Inuits were the most clearly affected by the enforcement of no whaling allowed perhaps but this is definitely not their main meat source by any means. The caribou that once were prevalent there have numbers down by sheer modern development and land use. I knew an Inuit man that was a great fisherman, died some years back after he left the helm of the 180 foot fishing vessel his family owned to go to his cabin, he was a close family friend...HE WAS INUIT full blooded and he fished, hunted and had a good income. He never told me any issues with fishing for them or the population there for harvesting from the sea and he loved fish. What a wonderful man he was and how he is missed. He never once complained about not being able to hunt a whale and never made comments of wanting to eat a Seal??? His diet was mainly fish, vegetables and fruit.

Here is a page that describes their varied diet where you can see just how many different meats they consume from the sea http://www.aitc.sk.ca/saskschools/arctic/food.html

as well as squirrel, duck, ox etc.... They continue to fish and eat berries, consume seaweed as their main vegetable unless they choose to shop. They can place an order once a summer and save hundreds or thousands by buying in advance what they need. It is not possible to grow much outdoors but they can grow a little indoors. I think it would be smart to have a local co op that supplied these folks with dairy at the very least to help this cost. They could raise chickens but they have geese and they can still hunt for many of their needs in meat (traditionally they ate meat primary in their diet with seaweed, berries etc following). They did not have dairy until modern day.

I live in the Pacific Northwest and clearly they have a much different life. Although whaling is not permitted, their ability to fish, crab, shrimp, clam and hunt is quite clear. Natives have and practice full harvesting rights beyond what any recreational sportsman or private citizen can harvest. They fish, crab and shrimp out of season, do not have the small catch limits we do and have reasonable groceries like the rest of us here. There are regular Native fisherman that sell their fish, crab and shrimp locally and to restaurants from the harvest of waters all around this island. There is no such thing as gouging our Native population, they have liquor they sell on reservation that is cheaper, fireworks they sell and their casinos which bring in revenues. They work and enjoy modern life and many rights, nothing is perfect. There was a very expensive bridge project here that lost Washington State millions of dollars when they had to halt construction as Indian Burial Grounds were found on site. As to hunting Whales....this has been against the law in many countries as well as our own for some time. Allegedly Natives here did go out on a whale hunt during a court case, it was a ceremonial and symbolic hunt they were fighting for and they claim that five natives were responsible for the death of this Grey Whale who was shot with a machine gun and also harpooned. This was not to preserve their food source, five Makah tribesman were suspected in the killing of the whale and were actually held at the time, by our local Coast Guard, the whale slipped below the surface of the water, not for any food source whatsoever.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-3244933.html

In my home, not a single bite of salmon is wasted...my who would do that?????

Incidentally, I am not native and I am the only one that harvests seaweed on this island in any quantity.. My use of native plants around this island is not matched by others, they have little interest in my "weeds" as they put it...mmmmmm We do not have a single native that lives here, they own a property that is unused simply to ensure their full fishing and harvesting rights in the waters surrounding the island and their rights are protected.