阿省免费发土豆 8公里车龙堵公路

值班超版

阿尔伯塔一个种土豆的农民社区组织为了呼吁民众抗拒中国食物，保护本地农产品，于本周六发起免费派送45,000公斤土豆的活动，令主办方没有想到的是，消息传出之后，数千人从四面八方开车涌来，1,000多辆汽车在公路上排起8公里的长龙，有不少家庭全家出动，也有人见来取免费土豆的人太多，加上孩子们等得失去耐心，因此不得不失望地打道回府。

据活动组织者说，其实这些土豆的市价也不过2万元左右，但绝没有想到会招引这么多居民前来，以致当地1条主要高速公路完全堵塞。

YZSUNNY

“阿尔伯塔一个种土豆的农民社区组织为了呼吁民众抗拒中国食物，保护本地农产品， ”

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YZSUNNY

根据加拿大统计局的资料显示，2006年，加拿大共从195个国家和地区进口食品，进口总值达100.92亿加币。其中从美国进口的食品总值近90.16亿加币，从中国进口的食品总值达7.56亿加币，来自巴西的食品总值为6.07亿加币，从墨西哥进口的食品总额达5.99亿加币。其中还有来自菲律宾、马来西亚、伊朗及戛纳的进口食品。统计资料还指出，从1996年－2006年的10年间，食品的进口总量上升了21.5%。
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0 j$ a: u3 Z$ y% n7 @# v( b% n而且从中国进口的食品以华人为主要消费群体，本地农民会为华人发起这样的活动？很怀疑的

zm72ru

据去过的人听农场管理者说因政府要征地所以免费送土豆换取民众支持

yxia

阿尔伯塔一个种土豆的农民社区组织为了呼吁民众抗拒中国食物，保护本地农产品，于本周六发起免费派送45,000公斤土豆的活动，令主办方没有想到的是，消息传出之后，数千人从四面八方开车涌来，1,000多辆汽车在公路上排 ...
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这个新闻存在明显的误导。

这次NORBEST FARM 免费土豆活动和中国食品无关，而是呼吁市民反对市政府因EDMONTON市的发展对农田的征用。下面是EDMONTON JOURNAL关于免费土豆活动的报导.
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+ t+ l" ~% e  uFarmer offering tons of spuds to press point on urban sprawl
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/ x$ ?0 E2 l  oSpread of development threatens agricultural area in northeast
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By Richard Warnica, Edmonton JournalSeptember 23, 2009Comments (22)

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( E& i& s) }$ }Potato farmer Gord Visser is giving away 100,000 pounds of Russet potatoes on Saturday to raise awareness about local food grown in the northeast corner of Edmonton.Photograph by: Ed Kaiser, The Journal, Edmonton Journal
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Gordon Visser makes an unlikely barker of the one-day sale. A third-generation farmer in Edmonton's fertile northeast, Visser hawks Russets, not Hide-A-Beds, so he's not normally one for the giveaway deal. But this Saturday--for one day only --he's making an exception.
7 i) |, V5 A; `8 hIn seven hours, Visser plans to hand out an entire field of Russet potatoes. If you want your share, all you need to do is show up, grab a bag and start filling.
- K+ a. S% n5 k  f2 u6 v4 eThe giveaway is part of a growing Edmonton movement to protect the city's dwindling agricultural land from development. By luring the hordes with the promise of free spuds, Visser hopes to send a lasting message about the value of local grub.
* I0 f0 w& Q4 K. Z+ a% l3 v- }# d"To invite people out to the land --to see the land, to smell it, to experience it--to ask them to come and support the agriculture in this land without giving them something would be hard to do," Visser said Tuesday in an interview from his farm off 195th Avenue near the Manning Freeway.
6 E" X5 U. L6 T" |* k6 m7 C( k, n  Y"My thinking was, if you go to any place in the summer, like Mayfield Park, or one of the parks, and some-one's giving away free Coke, people seem to line up. So I thought, 'Well, we'll give away 50 pounds of potatoes.'"
From experience, Visser thinks those 50 pounds, or 23 kilograms, properly stored, should last a family for months.
He has more than 45,000 kilograms set aside for the day, about $20,000 worth in total.
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1 {  u  n+ P1 J/ F9 pVisser's grandfather moved to Edmonton from Holland in the 1950s and the Vissers have farmed here ever since.
Visser's brother still works their father's plot, growing produce mostly for the local farmers markets, and he hopes his son may one day farm there as well.
"This stuff that we have here, this land, is unique," Visser said.
, y0 G. I1 _# x( k9 p1 d8 l' p7 TBut as Edmonton continues to grow, Visser and other urban-farm advocates worry the pressure to rezone the land for retail and residential will become overwhelming.
$ I) q1 H' `2 ?5 D9 Q8 DMany other farms in the area are on fields owned by large landholding companies, and if they're eventually sold to developers, Visser worries he won't be able to survive forever.
"It's just about impossible to be an agricultural island in an urban setting," he said. "So what we're hoping for is somehow we can integrate agriculture with some urban, but not to a degree that we're just paving it all over."
Visser organized Saturday's giveaway with the Greater Edmonton Alliance, an advocacy group hoping to convince the city to adopt a formal pro-farm policy in their next municipal development plan.
The alliance's Michael Walters said Saturday is mostly about giving Edmontonians a real experience of where their food comes from.
"It's a tragedy that we have disconnected food from land, because there is no food that comes from anywhere other than land--on this planet," he said. "So we think the important thing here is to begin reconnecting those two things."
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kelvin

这老头年轻的时候是个帅哥啊

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加拿大共从195个国家和地区进口食品，进口总值达100.92亿加币。其中从美国进口的食品总值近90.16亿加币，从中国进口的食品总值达7.56亿加币，来自巴西的食品总值为6.07亿加币，从墨西哥进口的食品总额达5.99亿加币。其中还有来自菲律宾、马来西亚、伊朗及戛纳的进口食品.   ???????????????????????????????

东北男人

我的朋友是周六上午10点多启程去的，还问我去不去呢，我说不想去了，他说等我回来分一些给你吧

还没见到他，今天见面再问问现场实况吧，呵呵

raining

这样的新闻也太不真实了，LZ怎么可以这样误导别人？有点事情就往中国上面扯，也太不善良了。要是我家邻居不告诉我没这回事，我还真信是因为抵制中国食物了。

活闹鬼

抗中国,为什么中国人还去?

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根据加拿大统计局的资料显示，2006年，加拿大共从195个国家和地区进口食品，进口总值达100.92亿加币。其中从美国进口的食品总值近90.16亿加币，从中国进口的食品总值达7.56亿加币，来自巴西的食品总值为6.07亿加币， ...
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数据比较老

孤岛客

shstock

有资格被抗拒也不错!!!

icing

I went that day, actually 1000 cars on highway, another 1000 cars waiting on the long narrow line towards to the farm from the highway. I was stuck there for more than one and a half hours driving through the 4km way to the farm from highway.
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Finally we arrived there, The potato there we were digging for are not good quality (actually very bad ones), it's kind of advertising for eyeballs. The farmer is quite smart.
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But later, the farmer drove a big truck of very good potato, so people took from the truck instead of digging from the dirt. The potato from the truck worth the hours of waiting. It's very good!

烟雨江南

爱城一粒沙子

这老头年轻的时候是个帅哥啊
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加拿大共从195个国家和地区进口食品，进口总值达100.92亿加币。其中从美国进口的食品总值近90.16亿加币，从中国进口的食品总值达7.56亿加币，来自巴西的食品总值为6.07亿加币，从墨 ...
kelvin 发表于 2009-9-27 08:53

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小学数学？？？？？？？？？？

爱城一粒沙子

抗中国,为什么中国人还去?
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免费，贪小

爱城一粒沙子

This is a donation and can be deducted from this year's tax return.
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从0开始

拜托LZ不要误导人了， 广播里说的很清楚：这个农民的本意是--引起大家的保护本地农业用地。政府的工业建设正在减小本地的农业用地。和抵制中国毫不相关。