>cbc.ca
>With headlines this week about changes coming soon to the Canada Food Guide one haunting fact remains — many Canadians don't have the time or the money to follow the national nutrition recommendations.
>One possible strategy as old as the food guide itself — providing healthy meals in every Canadian school — was abandoned by the federal government more than half a century ago.
>Today, Canada is the only G7 country that doesn't have a national school food program.
>Meanwhile Canada's food statistics are grim.
>Nearly one in every six children is affected by household food insecurity. "Food insecurity" is defined as a lack of access to food because families can't afford to buy it.
>"We've got an accumulation of evidence that we've got a very significant problem on our hands," said Tarasuk.
>And it's not because people don't have jobs. In the majority of households facing food insecurity, someone is earning a wage or a salary. They just don't make enough money to buy food.
>A modest target — getting kids to eat enough daily fruits and vegetables — isn't happening most of the time.
>One Canadian study showed that 90 per cent of students in Grades 6 to 12 are not eating the recommended daily servings.
>"So why in a wealthy country like Canada are so many children hungry and malnourished?" Sen. Art Eggleton asked last June, as he introduced a Senate motion calling for a "national cost-shared universal nutrition program."
>In 2017 a UNICEF report ranked Canada near the bottom — 37th out of 41 high-income countries on children's access to nutritious food.
What the FUCK is going on in Canada? 90% of Canadian children can't get their nutritional needs in a supposedly rich country like Canada. 1 in 6 kids are starving because the breadwinner can't afford bread. Yet Canada does nothing.
Will cucked Leafs ever do something?
