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From potlucks to prisons

Canada’s war on veggiephobia

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Jim Dalling
Feb 25, 2026
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I’m worried, dear reader, very worried.

It seems that here in Canada, they’re cracking down on ‘hate speech’.

And recently?

I misspoke.

I expressed a VERY STRONG opinion about

Vegetables.

In fact,

I went so far as to say ON RECORD that a tomato is in fact a FRUIT no matter what it thinks of itself.

Now, I know that many tomatoes in fact identify as vegetables.

That’s fine.

But at the grocery store?

Biology matters.

I expect to see them next to the apples and pears - not masquerading around with the kale and carrots.

Who do these tomatoes think they are?

Would someone think of the children?

And that’s another problem, the little baby cherry tomatoes get placed next to the beefsteak tomatoes right there, on the shelf next to the eggplants.

It’s a travesty, dear reader, absolutely disgusting.

But that was just the beginning.

I went to a potluck.

I KNOW - TWO IN LESS THAN A DECADE!

There was a vegan there.

They had soy paste that identified as meat.

I told them they were crazy.

Don’t gaslight me they said.

You …

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