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This short film explains what's happening to Canada's local food system and why we should all care. "where your food comes from?"

Almost everyone worked on this project from my company. Production, director, designers, 3D artists, Flame artists, editor... all departments. We shot all the stop motion by ourself. It's was great team work.

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  • Jørgen Reitan Sivertsen 2 years ago
    Sure, seems like the right thing to do. Problem is, it isn't necessarily the right thing to do. At least you can't make any conclusion without looking at other sectors. Did total employment in Canada go down during this period? Did total exports go down? Did total production go down? Maybe farmers stopped growing apples and simply started doing something which they/Canada is more efficient at doing? A practical (and hypothetical) example: Farmer A grows 100K apples a year. Then he stops growing apples, and starts producing sugar instead. (Guess what? Sugar exports to the US has risen 130% since 2005.) He produces 100 tons of sugar one year. This is exported, and gives enough revenue to import 200K apples. Should you anyway buy Canadian apples? A country should produce what they are relatively efficient at. Which is why Brazil doesn't manufacture many watches and Switzerland doesn't produce much coffee.
  • Yoho Yue 2 years ago
    Good point. :)
  • chapter81 2 years ago
    Agreed. :D (I'm from Brazil, by the way, and our problems here have nothing to do with production. It's more about corruption in politics. Brazil has the soil, has the size, has the weather, everything is good, but we're still a third-world country. The only bad thing here is the imbecile population. We use to say that "the worst thing in Brazil is the brazilian". Oh, my! >
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  • makenubs 2 years ago
    neat video. I dunno about the above tho. Depends if you think that markets always produce the most efficient, sustainable solution for everyone. They clearly don't - farmers might get other jobs or change their business models but at the end of the day you still have food that's chugged 4000 miles to your plate. The video is great, but reckon if you'd maybe made the point about food miles stronger it would be harder for Jorgen's legitimate points to hold weight. Anyway, I'm going to blog about your video on my video about music videos for ideas.. makenubs.wordpress.com
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  • Michele Yamazaki 2 years ago
    Fantastic video. I agree with the message.
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  • Robin Thacker plus 2 years ago
    Love it! Your message gets across very clearly. Makes one think about it. (What a concept...regular people thinking!)If you dig a little deeper, you'll find out why this is happening.
    Great job!
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  • Rodrigo Dutra 2 years ago
    This is amazing!!! congratulation for this job!!! very very perfect effects!!!! abraços!
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  • Yoho Yue 2 years ago
    team work rocks!
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  • OrganicNation plus 2 years ago
    Great!!
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  • Tari Akpodiete 2 years ago
    a fantastic little film, both the information and the presentation. i'm in Canada, so it's especially meaningful for me. i've embedded it over at digipendence.com. also the comment by Jørgen Reitan Sivertsen is very interesting food for thought.
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  • Michael Fragstein plus 2 years ago
    wow ! we need more stuff like this. keept it up!
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  • sara emily 2 years ago
    The way this was done was really neat, but it forgets to mention that its not as simple as buying Canadian food. Agreements like NAFTA only flood our market with more cheap imports, which keep countries in the 'third world' dependent on producing primary commodities that are subject to market fluctuations. As mentioned above, the idea that countries should produce what they are best at is just another way that the first world continues to dominate the world economy. By having countries produce "what they are best at" they are importing value added products from the west only driving up their debts.
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  • wanwan 1 year ago
    nice
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  • James Gross 1 year ago
    1. video is sick.
    2. NAFTA blows.

    Has the 'North American Free Trade Agreement' really helped to improve the lives of those living here? And I include other global free trade deals too. Somehow I think it just makes things more efficient for governments and mega corps to screw over the little guy.

    The point this video makes is not simply "Eat Real. Eat Local" but more like SPEND LOCAL. That's the only real way to vote nowadays, is with your dollar.
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  • Rui Madeira 1 year ago
    no one is forced into buying imported goods, people choose to buy imported goods because it suits their needs better (this usually means cheaper). Cheaper food allow more people (mainly people with lower incomes) to have access to more abundant and better food! The money people save when they buy cheaper food will be spent on other sectors improving those areas of the economy.
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  • Olya * 11 months ago
    great work!
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  • Louise Peacock 2 weeks ago
    Jorgen's comments are very interesting. I don't agree 100 percent. what I have been seeing is that more and more food products in the supermarket come from outside the country. Sockey salmon in cans: China or thailand Some frozen fish China/Korea or Thailand. My concern here is that these countries do not necessarily adhere to the same quality control that our do. The fish, for example, are often from fish farms and it has come to light that they are being fed unviable stuff - which would NOT be acceptable by our standards, yet, somehow they manage to export to us...my rule is: check the label - if it's from China, Thailand, Korea, Peru, Chile or Mexico - it aint making it into my home.
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