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Food banks are 'short-term Band-Aid' on 'huge gaping wound,'
The aching problem of food insecurity is much larger than food bank statistics suggest and food banks are not solving the problem, says Mary Ellen Prange, chair of the Food Insecurity Workgroup.
"Only about one in four households that experience food insecurity actually uses a food bank," Prange told CBC Radio's
Metro Morning on Wednesday.
Which is why Prange said food banks are "a short-term Band-Aid on this huge gaping wound."
Prange said food banks have created a secondary food system for impoverished people when what is needed are long-term solutions.
Prange is also with the Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Heath, which released its position on food security earlier this month. The group said that "food charity is an ineffective and counterproductive response to food security because it does not address the root cause of poverty."
Prange stressed that donating to food banks is fine. But along with that she is calling on people to pressure politicians to take action by focusing on income-based solutions.
"So here in Toronto a living wage, what was calculated in 2015 around $19 an hour, even with our minimum wage going up to $15 an hour in 2019, we're still going to be falling short of what it costs for just basic living," she said.
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