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Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

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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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[+] masterofn001@lemmy.ca -11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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