Kellogg's Moves
Ontario Plants to China
(courtesy of Tom…thank you)
This has been on our agenda since
hearing of the closing of the Kellogg's breakfast cereal plant in London,
Ontario and moving it to China. Some of
us have decided we do not want to consume any food products made in China...or
for that matter, any food products made outside of Canada or the United
States. There are some exceptions: cheese from England and Europe, olives from
Italy, etc.
We have also expanded this to any
products we can avoid NOT made in North America. This is hard to do, especially in
electronics. This is something we should
have paid attention to 30 years or more ago, but it is now, never too late, one
person, one step at a time.
Please read the article
below. I believe “Shop Canadian” should
be priority one and “Shop North American” priority two. (No offense to our friends in other
countries, but you should also shop your own country's products.)
A Physics teacher in High School
once told his students, “While one grasshopper on the railroad tracks wouldn't
slow a train very much, a billion of them would!”
With that thought in
mind, read the following...
obviously written by
a patriotic Canadian.
“Shopping in Lowes Hardware the
other day and for some reason or just for the fun of it, I was looking at the
garden hose attachments. They were all
made in China. The next day I was in
Home Hardware and just for the fun of it, I checked the hose attachments
there. They were made in Canada! Start looking! In our current economic situation, every
little thing we buy or do, affects someone else ~ even their job.”
A quote from a
consumer...
“My grandson likes
Hershey's chocolate.
I noticed though,
that it is marked ~ Made in Mexico, now
instead of Smith Falls, Ontario.”
“I do not buy it any more. My favourite toothpaste, Colgate, is made in
Mexico now. I have switched to
Crest. You have to read the labels on
everything! This past weekend I was
at Wal-Mart. I needed 60W bulbs. I was in the light bulb aisle and right next
to the GE brand I normally buy was an off-brand labelled...Everyday Value. I picked up both types of bulbs and compared
the stats ~ they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday
Value brand, but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that the
GE brand was made in MEXICO...and the Everyday Value brand was made in
(get ready for this) ~ Canada ~ at a company in Ontario. Their Equate Products are also made in
Canada...and are very good and comparable.
“Just to add to my own experience
on buying Made in Canada, I was looking for canned mushrooms that were
made in Canada and could never find any, so I would buy fresh. But recently I found 'Ravine Mushrooms' made
in Canada with a little red maple leaf on the can. A little
more money, but when I opened the can, I looked at the mushrooms that
look like real mushrooms, not a mushroom that looks like it was cleaned in
bleach.
“Another product I no longer buy
is Del Monte or Dole canned fruit. Del
Monte is packed in Taiwan and Dole is now a product of China. Why should we pay for their fruit when our
growers are left with fruit rotting on the trees? E.D. Smith is still made in Canada...buy
theirs...at least you will know what is in it and have some 'quality
control'. By the way, all pickles with
the Presidents Choice label and the No Name yellow label...are
made in India. Think about it...water from the Ganges River is used...yes, THAT
Ganges, the one into which raw sewage is dumped and that the people use as a
toilet!”
So throw out the myth
that you cannot find
products you use every day
that are made right
here in Canada!
My challenge to you is to...Start
Reading the Labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can
find that is Made in Canada. The job you save may be your own or your
neighbour's! (Your children and
Grandchildren, also). If you accept this
challenge, pass it on to others in your address book so we can all start buying
Canadian...one light bulb at a time!
Stop Buying from
Overseas Companies!
(We should have
awakened two decades ago.)
Let's get with the program. Help our fellow Canadians keep their jobs and
create more jobs here in Canada. If
President Obama insists on a “Made in America Policy” (which is commendable of
him), to support American workers, we should do likewise. BUY CANADIAN!
Read the Labels!
.
Of Personal Interest: The pharmacy in Wal-Mart is excellent. My
medication prescriptions are on file with them.
Vitamins and other 'off the counter' items under the Equate label,
the pharmacists always recommend to me...same quality, same goodness and
effect...at lesser cost than 'big company names'.
Merle
Baird-Kerr...written October 27, 2014
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Advice from Paul Berton (Editor of the Hamilton
Spectator) November 25, 2014.
So frenzied has the hype become
around so-called Black Friday in the
United States, it long ago spilled across the border, for better or worse. Canadian retailers are fighting back, as well
they should. To keep local shoppers from
straying too far, they are advertising their own Black Friday bargains. All
that is required now is for Canadian consumers to take up the cause. Ask yourself a simple
question: Is it really worth the trouble
to drive more an hour…then wait at the border…go through
immigration…and customs…and face whatever other obstacles await…just
to acquire an apparent bargain at a foreign retailer?
Wouldn’t that time, energy and
good will be better spent in your own hometown:
Hamilton,
Burlington, Grimsby,
Caledonia…???
Wouldn’t shopping local be more,
well, 'Christmasy'?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to
spend your money on your neighbours?
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