GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Oscar Wilde, Cannabis Edibles, Hash Browns
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Most people aren"t discriminating between different types of food. Not everyone knows the difference between hash brownies, and hash browns: ex. Oscar wild nature is a damp place in which a large number of birds fly around uncooked. Woody allen (cid:498)nature is one huge restaurant(cid:499) If you go to a typical grocery store you would find 900 separate grocery items. If you go to any big grocery store today in canada, you will find 25,000 items. U. s: 6. 5% of household expenditure on food. Canada in 1961, canadians spend 18% on food: 9. 6% The cost of food has gone up. Major difference between developing and developed countries is the money spent on meat and meat consumption. Because canada is a major food producer, and major exporters of food that is needed for canadians to survive, the prices are kept relatively low. We have a surplus, and we can feed ourselves. Relates to the structure of the grocery economy in canada.