SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Food Bank, Food Sovereignty, Corporate Donations

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appavoo

Document Summary

Module 8: hunger in the midst of plenty. 01/31/2016: many images in media about malnutrition present us with false impressions, 1 in 20 canadians used food banks in 2015, more than 1/3 of those helped by food banks in canada are children. When we think of hunger, we think of people not having enough to eat- think about amount. Food insecurity and food bank use in canada has been steadily rising over the past decade. Suschnigg said its because of 2 perspectives: the anti-poverty perspective, the food sovereignty perspective. Anti-poverty perspective: highlights the role of government policy change in rising food insecurity, helps us to understand that government decisions have major impacts on whether all canadian citizens can be food secure. Anti-poverty perspective: one example from this perspective is the decision by the ontario pc government to replace the landlord & tenant act with the tenant. Protection act in 1998, which reduced rent controls (and caused rents to increase significantly)