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Urban food strategy unveiled
The Globe and Mail’s Anna Mehler Paperny covers a historic announcement from the Toronto Board of Health that gives people better access to quality food.
TORONTO — David McKeown is out to change the way you think about food. What you eat, where it comes from, where you buy it and how you consume it.
Toronto’s Board of Health is unveiling a wide-ranging food strategy whose broad and lofty goals include creating "food-friendly neighbourhoods," connecting city-dwelling consumers to rural producers and eliminating hunger.
The strategy, which goes before the Board of Health today, is the most ambitious attempt yet by any Canadian city to reform a local food system that simply isn’t doing its job when it comes to feeding residents: A higher proportion of families in the Toronto area can’t afford to feed themselves properly than in almost any other city in Canada; at the same time, child obesity rates continue to skyrocket; the region’s vaunted Greenbelt is witnessing an agricultural exodus as farmers seek out greener, more profitable pastures. Read the full article.
Lauren Baker of Sustain Ontario, a Tides Canada project, will speak at City Hall about the report — “Food Connections: Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Food System for Toronto.” Learn more about Sustain Ontario.
