SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Kraft Foods Inc, Silt, Soybean
6 Dec 2014
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Food banks helping to ameliorate the symptoms of food insecurity. Food banks band aid solution to fundamentally flawed economic system. 2002- 620 food banks and over 2000 affiliated organizations providing so called emergency food services to people national wide: outside cities food banks use in canada"s small towns and rural areas increased 13% between. Increased transportation costs contributed to higher food prices in some rural and northern areas. Irregular and limited resources food banks are obliged to ration the amount of food they distribute. Preventing most local food banks from providing fresh items. Canada has more than enough food to feed all of its inhabitants dome people cant afford to buy what they need. 2007 over 9% were living below poverty line: main factor to food insecurity inadequacy of social assistance payments, major reason for inadequacy of welfare benefits federal governments decision to alter policy for transferring money to the provinces.
