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.
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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
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada-international-students-food-banks/wcm/1b5e72ce-9d8f-4fbd-8022-46e826876036/amp/
CBC on the ban
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIw1QpsA97E
Rage bait because the post read as : foreign students take food out of struggling Canadians mouths just to throw it out.
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Lol. Yeah. I'm just going to hang out at the food bank taking pictures. I'll also have the housemate sign a sworn affidavit. Brb
I'm confused why you don't understand why proof is important in this situation. We live in a time of disinformation, we'd appreciate the evidence for obvious reasons.
At best your pointing out a potential issue, at worst you're getting people to look at this at face value to add fuel to the fire.
It's important to have proof, but it was pretty silly to ask in this situation where it's pretty much impossible to prove.
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.
If someone is going to the food bank sifting through the box and throwing most of it out it is stealing from people who need it.
These people probably exist, but are an extreme minority, and you should not change how the system works because of them. Maybe ban them individually if you see them throwing out at most. Trying to regulate extreme outliers usually costs way more than ignoring it.
Taken from a comment above : Loblaws made 551 million Canadian dollars in net profits in Q4 2023.
And grocery stores are responsible for 12% of the food watsted in Canada
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.
Even with assholes like that we shouldn't change our approach to food banks. Desperate families need that food and while "welfare queens" exist they're the exception rather than the norm. We, as a society, just need to accept a certain level of waste because the cost to police it outweighs the cost to just oversupply. That all said, I do hope an aide worker catches on and stops your roommate or that they mature out of being an ass.
But, for the sake of your roommate's punishment, I'm not willing to take food out of hands that legitimately need it.
That's awful
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.
Do you have proof that is an ongoing issue?
Nope. My message doesn't indicate that it is an ongoing issue. Not sure why you're asking me for proof either.
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.