[BCFSN] food Digest, Vol 505, Issue 1

[Toni Boot]

This is so very true. The way to solve the problem of food insecurity is
for healthy food to be AFFORDABLE by everyone. It's not that there isn't
enough food ... not everyone can afford the food their body needs to stay
healthy.

Toni

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:00 AM, <food-request at bcfsn.org> wrote:

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>    1. The Poor Need a Guaranteed Income, Not Our Charity (Pamela Zevit)
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> From: Pamela Zevit <adamah at telus.net>
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> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:43:08 -0700
> Subject: [BCFSN] The Poor Need a Guaranteed Income, Not Our Charity
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> Published today in The Walrus.
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> “Community gardens, cooking classes, and food banks may make us feel good,
> but they don’t solve the problem of food insecurity…Hunger is an easy
> feeling to define. We’ve all known it, to some degree, at one point or
> another. Food security, on the other hand, is trickier—and according to
> experts, it’s more common and more dangerous than the suffering or
> malnutrition we typically associate with the physical state of hunger.”
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> https://thewalrus.ca/the-poor-need-a-guaranteed-income-not-our-charity/
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