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by notaustinpowers 977 days ago
1) Canada accounts for 0.5% of world population, but 1.6% of food production, consuming 0.6% of food worldwide. They are self-sufficient.

A hundred years of global commercialization has proven the "self-regulating systems" idea complete garbage. We've seen food prices increase across the US and Canada far outpacing inflation under the guise of "supply chain constraints", while those same global industries are cutting workers and seeing record profit.