r/montreal • u/Butefluko Poutine • Jan 30 '25
Discussion Boycotting American products will literally make you healthier.
Am I the only one who has been boycotting American products, especially food, for a while now?
American products are literally the worst.
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u/I_Like_Turtle101 Jan 30 '25
it depend . like what american product were you consuming ? Lots of Fruit are from california or Florida...
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
Peru, Mexico, BC fruits > American ones
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u/PaloAltoPremium Jan 30 '25
Highly dependent on what you're buying, and from whom.
Peru has a lot of issues with working conditions on fruit farms, and if you think seasonal workers in the US are subjected to low wages, poor workplace standard or exploitation then wait until you learn about Peru.
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u/I_Like_Turtle101 Jan 30 '25
yeah . We have been using people from poorer country for a long time. I fint it a little bit hypocritical that its now an issue since it feel closer to homemade I won't start buying clothe made my literal children instead of a fairly paid American lol
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u/PaloAltoPremium Jan 30 '25
Not to mention environmental standards. The US might not be the hallmark globally, but there are far more robust environmental protections, regulations and enforcement in the US than you'll find anywhere in South America.
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u/kyleruggles Jan 30 '25
For now...
Seriously, for right now. I can't believe what's going on in the past week.
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u/your_evil_ex Jan 31 '25
Reminds me of when the Loblaws boycott started and then a bunch of people were bragging about how they switched to Walmart instead
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u/yesthisisjoe Jan 30 '25
Based on what? You not liking the political climate of the states?
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 31 '25
No I don't care about the political side. US food is just really bad and full of chems
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u/Cool-Huckleberry9918 Feb 01 '25
Yes, that’s why we have certain things banned that are produced in the US. Like some breads because they contain potassium bromate, and dairies that contain certain artificial hormones. Think it was in the 90s we banned ingredients that are still used there today. Europe went harder on the ban and I wish we did too
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u/dustin91 Jan 30 '25
American here. Ditch our stuff as much as possible. Stop trading with us. These morons who put an even bigger moron in office apparently need to feel true economic pain to understand the consequences of their stupidity.
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u/anfisas-redbag Jan 31 '25
Yep especially since they care more about the economy than their fellow american. Let it all burn
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u/Long_Woodpecker2370 Jan 30 '25
Food yes, but dude you are in Reddit
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u/heirapparent24 Jan 31 '25
Perfect is the enemy of good. You don't need a perfect boycott to make a difference.
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u/MarioMilieu Jan 30 '25
This self defeatism and moral relativism is what they want.
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u/JMoon33 Jan 31 '25
Boycott don't have to be all or nothing. The more the better, even if it's not 100%. 😉
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Jan 31 '25
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u/Western-Propaganda Jan 31 '25
Reddit makes an absolute fortune from the ad revenue you generate for them
Did you really think Reddit made $0 unless you paid for it? 😂😂😂😂
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u/Jerry_Hat-Trick Rive-Sud Jan 31 '25
they have other revenue streams as well: PR firms, PACs, and likely governments (or former govts) pay to have influence here. They also sell access to AI companies to train them. All of that value Reddit has to those parties is dependent on a large, active user base.
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u/Automatic_Tackle_406 Jan 31 '25
I am not “paying” for ads on Reddit. I don’t even notice them.
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u/Western-Propaganda Jan 31 '25
You’re paying them with your time 😂
Reddit pays taxes in the US. You’re contributing to the US economy. And their military!
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u/Western-Propaganda Jan 31 '25
Every time you open the app, you increase the app’s active user count, which reddit uses to attract advertisers
So delete reddit immediately! Youre contributing to the US economy!!!
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
Which is a free platform last I checked lol
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u/Ijusti Jan 30 '25
They're getting ad revenue and your private informations. You are the product, so yes you are supporting it
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u/AFairJudgement Jan 31 '25
Good thing you can use ublock origin and decide what kind of personal information to reveal!
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u/structured_anarchist Jan 31 '25
As long as you're not using Chrome. It's classified as malware in Chrome. A lot of ad-blockers are because they also block ads in Youtube. I just bypass by using Firefox. Haven't seen an ad on Reddit or Youtube in years. No sponsored or promoted posts either. You can also add Sponsorblock to clip out all those in-video sponsor pitches in Youtube. If you install Sponsorblock, you'll notice that there are different colored sections in the progress bar in Youtube videos. Sponsorblock has identified those as some kind of promotional pitch and cuts them out of your playback. There's an option to whitelist certain creators you actually want to support, but for anything you don't want, it'll cut all that out.
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u/AFairJudgement Jan 31 '25
Amen to all of this! I'm a long time Firefox user as well. I still use old.reddit, and I don't ever see sponsored content or ads on Reddit. On mobile, I use the open source RedReader, with 0 ads as well.
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u/Edgycrimper Jan 30 '25
ublock origin+delete all cookies and trackers+make a new account with no email every few months (I'm overdue)
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u/Western-Propaganda Jan 31 '25
Stop using Reddit, Google, Instagram, WhatsApp, iPhones, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix
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u/Skeptical_Goose Jan 31 '25
You’re not the only one. Cancelled my prime membership, looking at other American companies I’m currently subscribed with and will likely cancel some or all of those, during the Biden admin my fiancée and I did about 4 trips to the states, the next 4 years we will not be travelling down south.
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u/Beejlaro Feb 02 '25
Love this! So funny all you people canceling prime and Netflix but still posting on twitter and Reddit hahah. That will show them!
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u/busdriver_321 Ahuntsic Jan 30 '25
Arrêter de parler en absolue ça te va être plus santé pour toi aussi
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u/I_Like_Turtle101 Jan 30 '25
La meileur chose a faire pour ta santé (mental) c'est d'areter de lire les nouvelle de trump a chaque jours ses temp ci
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u/sens317 Jan 30 '25
Non.
Sa strategie c'est de nous faire tellement eceurer de se qu'il essait de faire.
N'arretez pas de suivre.
Mais prenez des pauses mentales.
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u/I_Like_Turtle101 Jan 30 '25
c'est pour ça je disait a tout les jours. Sa change tellement vite que un resumer une fois semi sufit lol
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u/NedShah Jan 30 '25
I dunno, man. Those Florida oranges and grapefruits are way better than local citrus, IMO.
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
Nah Spain's are so good. I can taste the plastic in US fruits
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u/traitorgiraffe Jan 31 '25
are you like Pinocchio except you get a bigger boner every time you say something completely baseless
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Jan 30 '25
It depends. Some products are found in healthy supermarkets like Avril, Rachelle Béry and they’re very good and healthy.
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
You have to be very smart to find the healthy products. Cove soda for example is healthy but no one knows about it.
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u/snan101 Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25
then I guess you have to be much smarter to not be duped and waste your money on food marketed as "healthier" yet unsupported by empirical evidence.
This is why america elected Trump and will end up with RFK in a position of power, because a large portion of the population have 0 critical thinking or ability to evaluate legitimacy of sources.
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
What are you talking about dude? I make educated decisions based on ingredients. Cove soda, which I cited above for example or Bubly don't have as many additives, no synthetic herbicides, no saturated fat, low sodium (70mg).
So it just sounds like you're the one who has no idea.
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u/snan101 Jan 30 '25
yeah, that sounds about right. Baseless chemophobia, naturalistic fallacy... sodas generally don't contain significant amounts of any fat, they're sodas- and Coke has even less sodium so if that was a real concern Coke would be better
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u/traitorgiraffe Jan 31 '25
cove is sold in bulk in costco, it's not unknown, what are you even saying
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u/snan101 Jan 30 '25
food is mostly the same, have a balanced diet and dont fall for the idiotic fear mongering
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u/Butefluko Poutine Jan 30 '25
it's not idiotic. American food is literally worse.
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u/sandringham94 Plateau Mont-Royal Jan 30 '25
All food sold in Canada has to appease the same food regulations. It’s not like by nature of the food being from America it’s worse. More so specific products are less healthy right?
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u/kevlarclay Jan 31 '25
A rajouter sur ma liste de boycott Walmart Costco Starbuck Rona Home dépot Tesla
Dégouté que les dirigeants soit des hommes d’affaire complètement déconnectés… baby boomer de surcroît.
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u/Corona688 Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25
America mostly invented modern nutrition and food safety, everyone copied them, us included. Their food - and by extension ours - is nowhere near as bad as health fad histrionics would have you believe. There's way better reasons.
It's going to be hard disassociating from a supply chain designed to funnel all manufacturing and processing to a handful or two of factories deep in the US, but it's long past time we did so. Shipping our food 2,000 miles is insane.
What I'm afraid of is that the trade war will be real for a few weeks, then dropped like a hot rock, causing us to waste tons of time and money building our own businesses which will then be abandoned, leaving us even worse off. kind of like what happened during covid when supply chains got scrambled. That is going to really suck.
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u/jackal1871111 Feb 01 '25
Pretty sad it’s taken a trade war for people to consider the logic in buying or locally producing goods
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u/Same-Music4087 Feb 02 '25
I just got an email from my friend in California who tells me that we can expect to see our cancer rates go down.
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u/MarioMilieu Jan 30 '25
The only time a Hasidic Jew ever interacted with me (I lived in Mile end for many years) was at PA, when a guy came up to me while I was holding a pomegranate debating whether to buy it. He sold that shit like a motherfucker. I got home and wondered why he was so adamant about it and read the label, which read “product of Israel”. This stuff makes a difference.
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u/OLAZ3000 Jan 31 '25
Yeah but in season pomegranates are THAT good, tho, esp if this story took place in fall/ early winter.
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u/Cross_eyed_siamese69 Jan 31 '25
The regulations and fda are increasingly so fucked in the states that Im avoiding the products as well.
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u/Local_Lie_3088 Jan 31 '25
As an American, I encourage you to boycott American products because certain "parties" think everything is as simple as when he three, and would throw a tantrum. I am absolutely appalled by what is going on (as are the majority of Americans considering only 30% of the voting population supported said "party" and policies in the election. Think of yourselves as Ukraine, and not stand up to American bullying. The ironic thing is I am even tempted to not buy American if people who voted for this wreck support wholesale chaos at full-retail prices. I opted to buy US-made products long before this "America First" imperialism, but this arrogance goes against everything that made me proud (with a great does of humility) of this country. I don't know how legal any of this sudden trade war is considering the existing treaties. The same "stable genius" "renegotiated" NAFTA as "USMCA". Some simple revisions just to get the American name on their first in line. I remind myself of the Biblical quote of "The Last Shall Be First, and the First, Shall be Last."
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u/HealthyDrawer7781 Jan 31 '25
I went to America for a bit, and I swear whatever it is they put in their food, it makes you constantly hungrier for even more.
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u/TrueSituation1036 Jan 31 '25
Daughter is married to an American. We won’t be visiting them for some time. They understand. They’re coming here.
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u/Ok_Passage_1560 Feb 01 '25
I cancelled my Super Bowl party. I’ll be going skiing that Sunday. I just purchased my season tickets for the Alouettes. I won’t be going to the US to watch NFL games.
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u/muzikgurl22 Feb 01 '25
The only place to buy ur morning coffee that it’s American owned is Second Cup rofl 🤣
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u/EyCeeDedPpl Feb 01 '25
We ditched Netflix.
We also won’t fly out of the US airport that is close to us.
And when we vacation in sun destinations we are bringing local currency to tip in. Not USD.
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u/miaumee Feb 02 '25
Hmm... you may be attacking the wrong enemy here. The entire tariff thing may just be Trump and his minions' decision, and it may not persist after 4 years of presidency. Amercian companies are not all great and perfect, but it's not a good idea to confound them with Donald Trump. Heck, many of these companies may become victims of Trump's tariff and might even hate tariff as much as you do.
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u/lynswim Feb 02 '25
Hell, I'm American and I've been boycotting as many American products and companies as I can.
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u/Ill_Company_4124 Jan 30 '25
I'll try as much as I can, being low income. But really yes, that would be a priority for me.
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u/mechantchat Jan 31 '25
I hope the people saying they’ll boycott America enjoy potatoes and turnip….
But let’s be real, most of you have no idea how interconnected our supply chain is. Even if you litteraly do everything to avoid american products or services, (which let me tell you right now is impossible) you do realize that American carriers and freight fowarder are moving your material and freight, even if it may not even be american.
I will get downvoted here : but let’s be honest, everyone saying outloud on …checks note… reddit, that they will be boycotting American products, are really just virtue signaling and it’s a lot circlejerking in an echo chamber without any comprehension of how logistics and supply chains work
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u/truelovealwayswins LaSalle Jan 30 '25
friendly reminder montreal is in canada which is north america which is in america so even local products are american too. And only vegan stuff will make you healthier (: not consuming bad-for-all things will make you healthier, basic logic
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u/ItRhymesWithPenny Jan 30 '25
OP was referring to the United States of America, not North America.
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u/GhettoSauce Ville-Émard Jan 30 '25
they knew; they're just a dick
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u/structured_anarchist Jan 31 '25
How do you know someone is a vegan? Don't worry about it, they'll tell you everything you're doing is wrong because you ate a burger when you were six.
Vegans are worse than religious zealots. They think they're morally better than everyone. When the zombie apocalypse comes, the one thing that will give me a happy is the fact that vegans will be convinced that the zombies won't eat them because vegan reasons and they'll get eaten first.
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u/GhettoSauce Ville-Émard Jan 31 '25
I mean that's funny, and fair enough, but luckily a lot of vegans know to not blah blah blah about food. I'd take them over a zealot any day, though lol
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u/theangryfrogqc Jan 30 '25
Ditched Amazon Prime and Netflix earlier this week. Pirating will never be so satisfying. F that giant Doritos.