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Iโm surprised Europe isnโt already boycotting all American products, im Canadian and Iโve actually saved money avoiding their stuff and finding either a local alternative or just going without. Most of the stuff we get from the US is junk food or sugary crap so itโs actually good to avoid them
We are. Some transitions take longer, but food was the easiest. European food is superior anyways.
The EU never really had much in terms of American products, ie food stuffs. The kind of American products the EU has is primarily internet services where there aren't always alternatives (or at least ones that are as polished as the big US ones). Then there's the fact that most people don't even consider a lot of things as American - WhatsApp isn't even recognised as owned by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook/Meta, for example, for many people in spite of it being overwhelmingly the most popular messaging app in many countries.
Pretty much this. When this hole thing started I swore I'd never buy an American product again, but I quickly realized I didn't buy much of it anyways... The only American food/drink that we have is junk food and soft drinks, i.e. stuff that's easy to avoid or replace
Yeah im Canadian so we get a lot of their food, I see myself reaching for a snack item or ceral and when I notice itโs American I put it back. After I do I realize I really shouldnโt be eating that crap anyways so it saves me money and keeps me from eating so much junk food
Would you say you're in the minority or is it evident that most Canadians are boycotting?
Do you feel any slow down of the movement?
American produce is literally rotting on the shelves even at steep discount
At my local store US strawberries were on sale for $3 cad per pint and they all went to waste
You said pint, youโre not Canadian.
Source, I am Canadian
I'm in Victoria so British leaks in sometimes
What's the Canadian unit of measure for strawberries?
Weirdly in Australia strawberries come by the "punnet" which is just the type of container I think.
Most other fruits are sold by the kilo.
Just about everyone i know is anti American right now, even conservative voters. Of course we have maple MAGA running around , but most people are pissed that Trump is treating Canada like an enemy
I've definitely been doing it, but it's pretty hard to avoid US tech (both software and hardware). I can easily not buy bourbon or Heinz Ketchup, but not using commercial operating systems (I use linux, but y'know) or x86 CPU is kind of hard. Also, rightwingers see no reason to boycott Trump's US and we've got a bit of a problem with rightwing parties in most european countries.
Every bit counts, we can only do so much. Diapers for example are 99% from the U.S
There's no way that's true in europe.
The person you're replying to is Canadian and agreeing with your sentiment, pointing out an example of a product they have that can't easily be exchanged also.
Good work BTW on de-Americanising. I'm trying also but don't buy alot, particularly brands. I'm left with trying to not use American tech
Lots of alternatives on this website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html