Food Secure Canada is holding its fourth annual assembly Saturday to Wednesday (October 7 to 11) at the Sheraton Wall Centre as part of the Building Bridges Towards Food Security conference. The organization’s goals include achieving zero hunger, a sustainable food system, and universal access to healthy, nourishing foods that aren’t contaminated with pathogens or industrial chemicals.
The term food security itself is somewhat vague but in fact encompasses a breadth of issues. Roberts says the phrase came out of the Second World War, along with social security and job security. Put simply, it refers to everyone’s right to safe, nutritious, and affordable food.
The conference, held in conjunction with the Community Food Security Coalition, will address a vast range of topics, including the protection of agricultural land from urban sprawl, salmon-habitat restoration, junk-food marketing to kids, school gardens, food as medicine, and the expansion of dietary guidelines to include social, environmental, and ethical factors.
Roberts will moderate a roundtable discussion on Wednesday (October 11) entitled New Directions for Connecting Food and Health. B.C. provincial health officer Perry Kendall, who will be among the speakers, points to the recent recall of bagged spinach that was tainted with E. coli 0157:H7 as a prime example of the importance of the food-security movement.
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