Food for Thought
How Our Dollar Democracy Drove 2 Million Canadian into Foodbanks to Collect Private Charity in Place of Public Justice
Webber, Marlene
Publisher: Coach House Press
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 128pp Price: $12.50 ISBN: 0-88910-458-1
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX24703
Food for Thought tackles tough questions about hunger and poverty in Canada and dishes up disturbing answers. Answers that come from people on both sides of the breadlines, from the people throughout the foodbank movement.
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Why is hunger suring for the many while wealth soars for the few? How have the relatively poor sunk into absolute poverty? Why are the new poor, hungry poor? Why does hunger haunt a rich country whose governments calim they provide the Cadillac of social-security schemes?
And the most worrisome question of all: will Canadian accept what politicians condone -- private charity as a substitute for social and economic justice?
Food for Thought tackles tough questions about hunger and poverty in Canada and dishes up disturbing answers. Answers that come from people on both sides of the breadlines, from the people throughout the foodbank movement.
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