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As COVID-19 continues to bear down on us, millions of Canadians are going hungry — and the pandemic has highlighted how food insecurity is disproportionately impacting racialized people.
Almost three times as many Black and Indigenous households are food insecure compared to white households, Marc Fawcett-Atkinson reports. And while food insecurity is expected to surge as the pandemic drags on, hunger — a symptom of poverty, not a lack of food — has been on the rise for decades in Canada.
Part of this is the result of harmful policy choices, according to researchers, but another factor in the way we think about hunger is the stories Canadian media tells about why millions go hungry — and how Canadians with means should help.
“With all this (media) focus on the public donating — as if it’s the public’s problem to fix this — where’s the conversation about federal responsibility to ensure that people have adequate income to meet basic needs?” asks Valerie Tarasuk, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto.
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