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Nine million Canadians worry about where their next meal will come from.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Is it?

Isn't the goal is to have 100% of people fed by food banks? The complete abolition of commoditized foods?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Food banks are privately organised and staffed by volunteers.
They're a patch that tries to barely cover the gaping hole in tax-funded welfare for the citizens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, they should be funded by tax dollars.