Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca
Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca
A recent spring food drive in Barrie, Ont. fell $100,000 short on their financial goal. It's part of a growing trend across Canada.
A recent spring food drive in Barrie, Ont. fell $100,000 short on their financial goal. It's part of a growing trend across Canada.
It was never sustainable right from the beginning. Food banks are supported and funded mostly by those just a paycheque or two from being a client themselves. If the actually well-off were doing their part, food banks would mostly disappear because wages and social assistance would be up to the task of making sure people can afford to eat.
And amidst this peril of food banks, Loblaws made 551 million Canadian dollars in net profits in Q4 2023.
ITT we'd rather worry about handfuls of people wasting few dozen dollars of food each.
In Windsor the line for one food bank near me has gone from a few people to hundreds.
But they aren't Canadians.
90% are foreign students.
One is a tenant here.
He throws away 75% of the food he gets. 2 days ago he threw away 6 boxes of kd. 3 pies. A jar ofbbq sauce. Buns, bread, candy, pasta. He kept the 3 tomatoes. (I kept the kd and BBQ sauce because there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. The pies were eaten by animals instead of hungry people)
You can watch others take their boxes and bags of food, sift through and throw out what they don't want.
Some have taken bags of vegetables only to dump them on the street.
If they can spend 60k on school they shouldn't be stealing from hungry Canadians.
Can you get documentation of this? Sounds like ur just posting rage bait.
Not really rage bait
It’s known that international students use food banks, Brampton had to ban it awhile back
As for throwing stuff out…why would people expect differently? White people throw things out they don’t like, now imagine being in a country that eats completely different food
Recently
https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/04/outrage-ontario-student-food-banks-free-groceries-video/
sorry for source
CBC on the ban
I'm one of these students, I would never throw out food, same for all my friends here. It's hard enough without wasting.
And I don't like the idea of "stealing from hungry Canadians". We all know who the real thieves are, and it's not people going to food banks.
Damn, didn't know it was that bad.
Would a chat with them about somebody else going without, because of the tossing away, help?
The tenant, being "Christian", is utterly dismissive of the needs of others. I suggested offering it to anyone in the house before tossing it. Freezing things. Not taking things in the first place. Mentioned that he's basically stealing the food out of mothers and children's mouths. Nope. Doesn't work.
Some actually delight in wasting.
That's rather infuriating. I thought I heard stories about this and how certain food banks had to restrict students because the abuse was so high. Apparently it's a "tip" that's been passed around to international students.
Apparently it’s a “tip” that’s been passed around to international students.
That doesn't surprise me. I've seen people suggesting to others, who are NOT in need, to visit their local soup kitchen for free/low-cost meals. I don't know how they can sleep at night with a clear conscience, but that's disturbing.