A program on CBC radio looked at the increasing cost for fresh produce in Canada and how that impacts the working poor and their families. The show garnered 600 comments covering the micro to macro. Elaine Power an advocate for the working poor wrote in the G&M on the contribution of Food Banks and their failings. “The problem, however, is too big for community-based charities to solve.”
Nate Hural
@Dan Danforth
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2-global governance
3-global birth restrictions
4-renaturalize
“Food banks shouldn’t apologize for existing. In fact, we should actually make them even more efficient,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University business professor who specializes in food distribution.
Jesse Hunter response
Yeah there’s so much literature on this.
There’s a great doc called Poverty.inc (I think still on Netflix) which gives an interesting perspective.
I read Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm and loved the sort of meld of expository/narrative. His new book Tribe looks quite interesting:
It’s so tiring that the obvious is never confronted. Food banks are symptoms of the bigger crime of inequality. A guaranteed minimum income would likely make them irrelevant. That this is never accepted makes any act of generosity to food banks, other than volunteering, obscene.