Die Ottawa Food Bank verzeichnet im Oktober eine Rekordzahl an Besuchen und fordert die Stadt auf, eine Nahrungsmittelunsicherheitskrise auszurufen

The sad reality is that there’s plenty of food to feed everyone well, but in the name or profits it only goes to those who can afford it or thrown out entirely as a write off.

> “It was one in seven last year; it’s now one-in-four households are experiencing food insecurity,” Wilson said.”

What’s nutty about this is Ottawa has a reputation for being a white-collar city with a fairly high median income between the civil service and the tech industry. 1 in 4 households is crazy. The thing is, even in those well-paid industries… rent has doubled in Ottawa since about 2020, houses are impossible to afford on a single income, food inflation is as bad here as anywhere, and especially at the lower end of both the civil service and tech industries, the pay isn’t *that* good. Not good enough to keep up.

Makes me wonder how bad it is in other cities.

I know several friends who had been making standing, monthly monetary donations for years, but who are now on the cusp of needing these resources, themselves.

I look back at the ease we experienced in the 90s with longing. I can’t imagine what it must have been like growing up in the era of bounty that boomers were gifted.

Too many people are squabbling about which of our neoliberal masters we should elect next, versus demanding the one thing that could reorient our systems toward favouring the people – electoral reform.

Consensus politics, versus fearmongering. The tyranny of “lesser evils” has yoked us for too damned long.