Crystal Clear

A few years ago (2007) the CBC did a story on the regulations on food products and how product of Canada could mean only 51 percent of the ingredients and production were Canadian.

So, that ‘fact’ was stuck in my head.

I was looking today for some labeling regulations for another product (ingredient of ‘white whole wheat flour’ – what does that mean?) and read the regulations for Product of Canada.

A food product may claim Product of Canada when all or virtually all major ingredients, processing, and labour used to make the food product are Canadian. This means that all significant ingredients are Canadian and non-Canadian material must be negligible… Generally, the percentage referred to as very little or minor is considered to be less than a total of 2 per cent of the product. (Canada Food Inspection Agency)

So, that’s pretty good! Product of Canada means ingredients and processing done in Canada. Yay! I’m glad to have my mind’s facts changed on this!

On another note, Imported by or Imported for which a Canadian address / company tell you virtually  nothing about country of origin. Hopefully that too will change and we’ll know where all our food comes from.

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I was doing some math today with some stats I was given on net worth in the US.

If all the households in the US with a net worth of at least 1 million donated just 0.01% of that to fight poverty and other charitable activities, an additional 2.3 billion dollars would be available.

Just 0.01% goes a long way.

If these same households gave 1% that would be 234 billion dollars! That would go even further.

(If your net worth is 10 million, and you gave 1%, that means you’d still have 9.9 million left. Seems like enough to keep to me.)

Enormous untapped resources. Enormous. (And I haven’t even added in the giving of 1% or 0.1% of those under 1 million. Little bits from many adds up too.)

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Great video on climate change, and how the positive feedback mechanism could take us from a short man made adjustment to huge temperature changes out of our control.

It also explains the ice age / habitable continuum well, in my opinion.

It’s cute and tells a good message – it’s not inevitable if we act soon / now!

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

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