الجمعة، 18 فبراير 2011

The price of food in the high arctic

The photos embedded above are from a set of nine posted this week at (Canadian) CBC News, highlighting the jaw-dropping cost of food in the arctic regions of Canada.
These grocery shelves in the High Arctic community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut, have people talking this week — $38 for cranberry cocktail, $29 for Cheez Whiz, and a whopping $77 for a bag of breaded chicken.
The article goes on to discuss the effects of a change in the food subsidy program for the region; what it reminds me of is stories of how, during the gold rushes in California and Alaska, great wealth was accumulated - by those who sold eggs and food staples to the miners.

Via J-Walk.

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