{"id":3754,"date":"2022-02-11T07:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2022-02-11T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:56:46","slug":"canadian-trucker-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Trucker Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Every day before work, my wife makes for me a fruit bowl that I have as my mid-morning snack. The contents vary but can include blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, kiwi, green grapes, red grapes, cherries, grapefruit, oranges, and apples. Yes, I know \u2014 clearly I am spoiled. But on so many levels!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First and foremost, having a loving spouse who cares enough to select, purchase, and assemble the fruit bowls. (And not include mango because, ewww, mango.) But also because here I am living a middle-class life in the upper-midwest where only a few generations ago my only option for fresh produce in February would have been a withered turnip that had been harvested just before the ground froze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I get a selection of all these sweet, delicious fruits! Sure, they may not all be up to the heavenly standards of a local in-season harvest. But for having made the trip from Mexico and South America (and New Zealand!), they are pretty dang good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw an article this week about how inflationary prices\u00a0finally hitting fresh produce<\/a> after largely sparing\u00a0that segment until now. Among the many reasons why \u2014 the minimum wage in Mexico has doubled in the past four years, and that cost has finally worked its way through to the end consumer.\u00a0I’m embarrassed to say that my first thought was, “But I don’t want to pay more for my winter blueberries!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say embarrassed because my\u00a0ideology is more about having empathy for those Mexican farmers and how higher wages benefit them (and make it much less likely that they would\u00a0need to leave their homes).\u00a0But just like with\u00a0a\u00a0guy who supports the Canadian trucker protest<\/a> until his new\u00a0vehicle is delayed, ideology\u00a0can go quickly out the window when it effects you personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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