The great Canadian potato innovation famine
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
The next time you step into the local supermarket to pick up a sack of potatoes, think about how innovative those potatoes really are. What? According to Canada.com, the Canadian government is investing almost a million dollars in potato industry innovation:
“The federal government [in Canada] is contributing $590,000 to help launch a national network geared to finding new markets and innovative uses for potatoes. The goal of the Potato Innovation Network 2020 is to create alliances between university, government and industry to create new or improved potato-based food, bio-medical, and industrial products. The provinces of New Brunswick, Alberta, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Quebec are also contributing to the project, putting its total value at over $830,000. The potato industry contributes approximately $6.4 billion to Canada’s economy.”
If you look up “pork barrel” in the dictionary, I think you’d find something like this. In Canada, I guess, the term “potato barrel” might be more relevant.
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[image: Potatoes]
