Dominant nutrition wellness narratives wrongly focus on individual behaviour and personal responsibility, which obscures the structural causes of hunger and delays policy changes.
- Professor of Health Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Improving mental health through a basic income is a wise investment, one that will prevent the needless suffering of generations to come.
With food insecurity at an all-time high and food banks buckling under high demand as we head into this holiday season, experts say we need to focus on long-term solutions to tackle the issue at its root.
The ability of food banks to meet the needs of food insecure Canadians has plummeted just when it is needed most. But food banks have never been able to address the reason people are going hungry.
Envoyer nos surplus alimentaires à des organismes de bienfaisances est une solution simpliste et moralement douteuse. Elle ne règle rien au problème qui cause la faim: la pauvreté.
Reducing food waste by feeding hungry Canadians is a simplistic solution that is deeply problematic and morally distressing.
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