Wars have been fought over smaller things. Can you survive without Chinese products?

[mcfarms]

OK then fellow Canuck and Aussie Growers. Coould you ? Would You? and are you? Going to boycott Chinese products on your operation as it appears China has decided to boycott yours?

I mean NO more cheaper Glyphos. Looking at every item and putting it back on the shelf and or telling the store manager where you deal you're not interested in Chinese items until fair trade in Canola is re established? Is it an impossible thing in this day?
No more visits likely at all to places like Peavy Mart, Canadian Tire or Princess Auto.
Kids I'm afraid that christmas present you wanted is cancelled this year because I'm afraid the toys may be made in a factory that is polluting the yangtze river.

Crazy talk right?

[SASKFARMER3]

No its not crazy talk maybe only way to straiten any thing out is buy canadian. Usa is in debt with them so bad that's a problem but buy american should be a priority. Were dealing with a comunist with a piss load of cash, their own workers mean nothing.

[SASKFARMER3]

Their should be public advertisement like over their saying " If it says made in china don't buy it". "Made fom the finest lead in world" "Human suffering is a chinese prority" "Poluting is our number one goal" "Our human rights record is rock solid". They have cash and our geniuss don't get it.

[parsley]

And you have land, not cash.

And it will be the most valuable asset on this planet. Tell your children it is. And remind yourself when you are drying grain. Pars

[cottonpicken]

Cant remember the author of the quote

"when goods fail to cross borders armies do"

[fjlip]

So the BIG guy on the block is always right and you are toast to disagree? Farmers are powerless due to our insignificant numbers, acres do not vote. Everyone else in society benefits when canola prices are going down. We will be sacrificed for the good of the majority. Trade is profitable to 98% of population. We lose.

[fjlip]

More reasons to NOT even dare buy Chinese for your own sake and the planet...http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/

[furrowtickler]

A trade war? Maybe a big global one brewing? On thing to keep in perspective, we realy do not need anything from China as said as this thread states, but at the end of the day they need food, they will never be able to produce enough anymore on their own. But they own enough U.S. currency to buy half the U.S. farmland and farm it themselves. As well I could these so called investment groups pulling the pin on the mega farm projects and selling out to the Chineese here in Canada. Anything for a return on investment, right?

[skhadenuf]

You hit the nail on the head furrow, These are some things we as farmers do not get involved with enough. Over time those that control the arable land and oil etc. obviously will rule everything, the rest who will become us will work like the peasants in China and India are now for pennies for those rulers. The Chineese are outsmarting our governments and businesses as short term profits etc. will cost the future of our children.