Pearl Milling is a Product of Canada. The others are Product of USA. I've been using Pearl since the first wave of tariffs (it's just as good). I have returned to turning Product of USA products upside down.
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
"Product of Canada" means that two conditions are met:
I'm just learning this now. So Product of Canada means nothing??
Not necessarily. These labels refer to the manufacturing of the product only, it does not stipulate who owns the parent company that made it.
It means that 98% or more of the money that was spent making the thing (ingredients and labor) was spent in Canada.
This is still a good thing. Buying things that are "Made in Canada"(good), "Product of Canada" (better), or "100% Canadian" (best) ensures that the majority of the money comes into or stays in Canada (unless you're working with something with profit margins over 100% which is quite rare). Anything that doesnt have one of these labels right now means that the majority of the money spent making it was spent somewhere else and the product shipped here.
The problem is almost everything is owned by the Americans.
No, it means canadian stuff was involved
More to the point, it means Canadian labour was exploited while Americans were fed the profits.
Yes, that is capitalism. I'd rather not see millions suddenly lose their jobs all at once though
Shift to Canadian companies and they expand and hire.
That is also capitalism.
What big Canadian companies are left? If successful they get purchased by Americans.
And they continue to be exploited, but yes we should be shifting to Canadian companies as much as possible
Fighting the exploitation of labour is easier if the people doing the exploiting are in our nation... ๐
Agreed