Toronto Star- $90,000 rice shipment bound for Toronto food bank on ship struck near Iran
Daily Bread makes regular monthly purchases of rice from countries including India and Thailand, according to Hetherington. They purchase 40-foot containers every one-and-a-half to three weeks, with each container having about 40,000 pounds of food in it — or 331,000 servings.
Not much rice grown in Canada. Some stateside, tho…
Let them eat cake.
So now we’re shipping food FROM INDIA to the poor starving b@st@rds of… Toronto?
For real?
And now the starving “Canadians” aren’t going to get their food because of Iran?
I’m old enough to remember being told I had to finish my dinner because of the poor kids starving in India. (It was never explained to me at the time they were starving because of Marxism, I only learned that later.)
How the turns have tabled. Or something. For f- sake.
They were starving in Bangla Desh, not India, per se, except for the lower castes.
George Harrison held a concert and shit.
As for rice…I hate rice, but welcome some PEI spuds and pasta, baby!
Canada is now officially retarded and all that came before (which I recall) is memory holed.
Have a nice day and don’t bother to vote.
PS: gonna plant my potatoes and sundry stuff soon, here, in the Okanagan. I call it my Victory Garden. Remember them?
Bangladesh didn’t exist until 1971. Just because you’re too young to know that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I got the same spiel as Phantom from my parents. It was the poor starving children in India, China and Biafra. Trick or Treat for Unicef!
I am not too young, I was just adding to the mix. I’m likely older than you and remember my mom telling me to eat the veggies and think about kids in Biafra.
I carried my share of waxy Unicef boxes on Halloween while favouring my pillow sack full of carmel candy and razor bladed apples and smelling my breath in a stupid pirate mask/
Peace.
Speaking of Bangladesh … we grow rice here is CA! Come and get it Canada. But you WILL pay a massive premium for the rice because fuel and all necessary utilities to grow it cost more than anywhere else on the planet … thanks to our supermajority leftist government … and largest number of welfare recipients in the USA. Yeah … we resemble Bangladesh of the 1970’s … only costlier.
Color me skeptical, having eaten butter from a tin marked UN rations, in Ethiopia. How many times was that shipment stolen and re-routed?
If they buy rice from india and Thailand, what is it doing in the straight of hurmuz?
UN rice diverted from Palestine or Syria or some other sandy armpit.
Probably shipped from Canada 5 years ago, returning home
With so many ricers in Canada, why not study growing dryland rice so we don’t have to import? Mind you the Liberals shut down most of the experimental farms because they were likely too useful. I think it needs something like 120 days. Does any of the prairies have that long a growing season.
Does any of the prairies have that long a growing season.
Yes. Wheat takes 120 days. Lots grown out on the prairies.
cold weather crops for the win, thanks to prairie ingenuity.
What is the total amount of dairy products we dumped last year?
Could not possibly give any of that to food banks, could we?
That’s not the Canadian way.
Michael Yon
This is my sixth year of warning about global famine.
https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/hormuz-and-last-supper
Why don’t they just SKIP IT.
I HAVE TO !
FILTHY FOOD BANKS
I have NEVER supported food banks as even in the 1980’s when they started, it was about high paid employment for the people who ran it. Yes, there were volunteers who stocked the shelves and filled the grocery bags.
As well, I have known a number of people who use food banks. They ALWAYS have money for tattoos, cigarettes, dope, beer, and for the women, fancy finger nails. But they NEVER have money for rent, car insurance or food. The ones I am thinking about, had the nerve to complain about the quality of food at the food bank (they did not like Kraft Dinner apparently).
I am a retired senior on a fixed income. I DO give to charity, but only the ones which I deem to be genuine.
Rice for the non-native residents of Vancouver.
Well I’m shocked I tell ya! Shocked! Rice coming to Canada through the Strait of Hormuz. My knowledge of geography isn’t what it used to be, I thought that you needed wet lands and rice paddies like they have in India and China. I never knew that you could get rice out of the desert. Just shocked I am. Then again on the other hand I have a relative that lives in Manitoba and sends me a rice package every once in a while that is harvested from the wetlands in Manitoba, so maybe they have genetically modified rice to grow in the desert just like the rice we have here in Bananaland. We’re perhaps more culturally progressive than we realize, I mean bananas and rice and the rest of that delicious multicultural cuisine!