Earth Walker
August 24th, 2001, 09:41 PM
TORONTO -- About three million Canadians -- many of them
children -- are considered "food insecure" because of money
worries, a Statistics Canada study suggests.
In a report released yesterday, the agency said almost 2.5
million Canadians had to compromise the quality or quantity of
their diet at least once a year because of lack of money.
The National Population Health Survey, which looked at the
period 1998-99, also found that half a million people worried
they would not have enough to eat because they were short on
cash.
Children up to age 17 were most likely to live in a food-insecure
household. Seniors 65 or older were the least likely.
But children in such households are not necessarily undernourished, StatsCan said. "Adult caregivers tend to sacrifice
their own diet so that children will not be hungry."
The survey considered households to be "food insecure" if a
respondent acknowledged any of three circumstances stemming
from a lack of money: Worry that funds would be insufficient to
buy food; not eating the quality or variety of food desired, or not
having enough to eat.
"In general, households with food insecurity have limited or
uncertain access to enough food for a healthy, active life," the
report said.
"These households have reduced quality and variety of meals
and may have irregular food intake. There may be a need for
recourse to emergency food sources or to other services to meet
basic food needs."
In fact, the agency found that about one-fifth of individuals in
food-insecure households received help from food banks, soup
kitchens or other agencies.
More than one-third of households with earnings of less than
$20,000 per year reported food insecurity in 1998-99.
--- Canadian Press
Earnings below $40,000 is considered the poverty level.
I exist on less than $9,000 a year...how do I do it? :eek:
Drought Will Cost You At The Supermarket
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TORONTO -- Canadian consumers should expect to be hit in the
wallet at the grocery checkout as farmers struggle through the
most extensive national drought in decades.
"A drought usually works its way through to the consumers,"
said George Brinkman, an expert at the University of Guelph in
Ontario.
This is especially true now that many of Canada's agricultural
markets have become global, and because the drought this
summer straddles almost all the country's growing regions.
Red meat is likely to be most affected by any price increases,
said Brinkman. That's because cattle and hog producers won't
have lush pastures to fatten up their animals, he said.
Corn, a staple of livestock feed, is so parched that it is ripening
while immature and still tiny.
--- CP
children -- are considered "food insecure" because of money
worries, a Statistics Canada study suggests.
In a report released yesterday, the agency said almost 2.5
million Canadians had to compromise the quality or quantity of
their diet at least once a year because of lack of money.
The National Population Health Survey, which looked at the
period 1998-99, also found that half a million people worried
they would not have enough to eat because they were short on
cash.
Children up to age 17 were most likely to live in a food-insecure
household. Seniors 65 or older were the least likely.
But children in such households are not necessarily undernourished, StatsCan said. "Adult caregivers tend to sacrifice
their own diet so that children will not be hungry."
The survey considered households to be "food insecure" if a
respondent acknowledged any of three circumstances stemming
from a lack of money: Worry that funds would be insufficient to
buy food; not eating the quality or variety of food desired, or not
having enough to eat.
"In general, households with food insecurity have limited or
uncertain access to enough food for a healthy, active life," the
report said.
"These households have reduced quality and variety of meals
and may have irregular food intake. There may be a need for
recourse to emergency food sources or to other services to meet
basic food needs."
In fact, the agency found that about one-fifth of individuals in
food-insecure households received help from food banks, soup
kitchens or other agencies.
More than one-third of households with earnings of less than
$20,000 per year reported food insecurity in 1998-99.
--- Canadian Press
Earnings below $40,000 is considered the poverty level.
I exist on less than $9,000 a year...how do I do it? :eek:
Drought Will Cost You At The Supermarket
--------------------------------------------------------
TORONTO -- Canadian consumers should expect to be hit in the
wallet at the grocery checkout as farmers struggle through the
most extensive national drought in decades.
"A drought usually works its way through to the consumers,"
said George Brinkman, an expert at the University of Guelph in
Ontario.
This is especially true now that many of Canada's agricultural
markets have become global, and because the drought this
summer straddles almost all the country's growing regions.
Red meat is likely to be most affected by any price increases,
said Brinkman. That's because cattle and hog producers won't
have lush pastures to fatten up their animals, he said.
Corn, a staple of livestock feed, is so parched that it is ripening
while immature and still tiny.
--- CP