Freedom 90 commits to raising its voice to demand an end
to poverty and an end
to the need for food banks and emergency meal programs in
Ontario. |
| August 28, 2013 |
| rabble.ca - Brad Dunne |
| Hungry hearts: A grassroots alternative to food banks in small town Ontario |
 Seven years ago, Operation Sharing abandoned its food bank, opting instead for Foods for Friends, a system that uses non-transferable cards with a pre-determined amount of money. People who qualify for the program can use the card to buy non-taxable groceries. Locals are asked to donate a quarter to the program at the checkout of participating stores.
"We always hear about whether we need a food bank or not," explains Giuliano. "It always seems like that or nothing. This offers a more progressive step forward."
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| Click here to read the full article on the rabble.ca website |
| August 30, 2013 |
| Wellesley Institute - Emily Wong |
| School-based meal programs to counteract food insecurity? |
 However, are school-based meal programs enough? Food plays a powerful role in our daily lives and is an important determinant of health. But food insecurity is, more often than not, a result of income insecurity. School-based meal programs would temporarily relieve a child's hunger, but ultimately fail to solve the problem of why kids show up to school hungry in the first place. |
| Click here to read the full article on the Wellesley Institute website |
| August 29, 2013 |
| The Star - The Canadian Press - Sheryl Ubelacker |
| Poverty lowers brain power, making it harder to figure out escape: study |
| Dealing with poverty takes up so much mental energy that the poor have less brain power for making decisions and taking steps to overcome their financial difficulties, a study suggests.
The research, published Thursday in the journal Science, concludes that a person's cognitive abilities can be diminished by such nagging concerns as hanging on to a place to live and having enough money to feed their families.
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| Click here to read the full article at The Star website |
| September 5, 2013 |
| Civil Eats - Andy Fisher |
| The Anti Hunger-Industrial Complex |
 Every anti-hunger advocate will tell you that hunger is a symptom of poverty, and poverty is shaped by unemployment, underemployment, and low wages.
Given that, one would expect that anti-hunger groups would be publicly supporting the fast food workers ... Perhaps their lack of attention to this issue is grounded in the fact that many anti-hunger groups, especially food banks, are joined at the hip to corporations.
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| Click here to read the full article at the Civil Eats website |
| August 26, 2013 |
| Farm Gate - E.B. Klassen - (Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis - Graham Riches - 1986) |
| Plus ca change... |
 And here we are, twenty seven years later, and food banks are an established part of the welfare system, allowing the 1% to skive off from their responsibility to the system that allowed them such success and unimagined wealth.
Food banks are in a difficult position; both an honest and humanitarian response to the problem of hunger, and a way to allow untenable social policy to become a fixture in our society.
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| Click here to read the full blog at Farm Gate |
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