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August 28, 2013
rabble.ca - Brad Dunne
Hungry hearts: A grassroots alternative to food banks in small town Ontario
Jumble of non-perishablesSeven 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."

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?
Emily Wong - HeadshotHowever, 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.

Click here to read the full article at The Star website
September 5, 2013
Civil Eats - Andy Fisher
The Anti Hunger-Industrial Complex
Rube Goldberg-style eating machineEvery 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.

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...
Book Cover - Food Banks and the Welfare CrisisAnd 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.

Click here to read the full blog at Farm Gate
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