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You need to be careful out there nowadays

Smart meters, meat and growing a garden offer up challenges

Dear Sir:

Are you happy with the choices that others are making for you? Smart meters, packaged meat from your meat store and your ability to grow our own garden?

I have a friend who has their smart meter installed on a pole. The year they were installed, we had mega snowfalls.

"That pole had a foot circumference around it, all winter that did not have snow, it just melted," she said.

What's the reason behind that? The rest of us who have them attached to our houses, wouldn't even notice it.

Prices of groceries, especially meat, have sky-rocketed. I cringe every time I buy meat.

According to one of our store's meat managers, the new way of pricing meat is per package.

What ever happened to customer service? What a joke!

Your meat over the last year has changed packaging: first, shrink-wrapped which is good but now it has a weight on the label and how much it is going to cost you – per package – but not per kilo or pound.

So we'd better sharpen our math skills or pack a calculator that will tell us what we are paying for that product.

I have asked several ladies how they like this method and one lady said "I can't figure it out, so I just didn't buy it." My idea exactly. That's a pretty neat way of scamming your customers.

On the same note, with meat prices increasing, people are hoping to cut their costs by seriously growing their own garden.

My Dad always told me you can always go back to the land if you need to. I don't think that is true today. Just look what Alcan wants to do. They want to increase sulphur emissions into the air.

Do you remember all the trees in Kitimat (near one of those plants) that turned brown and died?

How about the days when the wind was just right and us folk here in Terrace said, "Sure glad that rotten egg smell (sulphur) doesn't come our way too often." Guess what, we will be smelling it a whole lot more.

I for one will continue to support only the store that is going to give me top notch service and when that ends then I might have to go directly to the farmer or learn to hunt wild meat.

However with limited entries, polluted seas and again, limited entries and amounts, we as consumers had better be aware.

There are already too many people dying from cancer.

I really don't think our wild animals and domestic animals will be safe either!

Where does this leave us!

Bea Kinkead, Terrace, BC