mesange

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[โ€“] mesange@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

That looks awesome, I've never seen Cove soda before, i will definitely be keeping an eye out! I don't drink a lot of soda but I occasionally enjoy a sugar free one from time to time

[โ€“] mesange@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess it depends on how much each individual really cares - when i was a student and a very poor worker in my early career, buying free range chicken and eggs were (and still is) very important to me, and i purchased accordingly. I never wavered on my personal morals to buy the half price caged chicken. If i really couldn't afford to pay the free range prices that week, I just bought something else.

I get that the Buy Canadian movement can be challenging because it's all-encompassing, but honestly a lot of the times the alternatives aren't even more expensive. And if you're savvy with shopping the specials and flexible with your purchases, it's easier. It's definitely a lot of effort though. I'm celiac and I figured that I will probably still occasionally be buying USA goods just because my choices are so limited - amazingly I haven't had to yet. In fact I had a hell of a time finding gluten free soy sauce recently and thought I was going to have to buy something imported from USA, but finally I found that the sobeys house brand soy sauce is gluten free - and a third the price of the stuff i normally buy.

That said this also reflects why it's important to champion doing the best we can, even if it's not 100% - someone who is carefully replacing 20% of their previously-USA purchases with Canadian, but struggling with the rest, is still doing better than someone who has just given up completely because perfection feels impossible.